Your invitation to look for proto-thoughts is a good one. Some people notice them far more than others, and for some they're vivid enough to work with. I've been calling the sense behind them thoughtfeel: a sense for concepts that takes in an idea and its properties before it becomes words or pictures, the way vision takes in a scene. People who have it can hold a proto-thought steady, pay attention to it, and notice more detail the longer they attend.
A few of us compare notes and share techniques for learning with thoughtfeel at reddit.com/r/ThoughtFeel, and there's a 1-minute test at thoughtfeel.net. Thanks for writing this up.
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing - have been trying to derive all of this from my own experience. Glad to know there's been some interesting work done here already!
Glad it helped. Hurlburt & Akhter (2008), "Unsymbolized thinking", in Consciousness and Cognition, is a good place to start on the research. What have you worked out so far from your own experience?
Your invitation to look for proto-thoughts is a good one. Some people notice them far more than others, and for some they're vivid enough to work with. I've been calling the sense behind them thoughtfeel: a sense for concepts that takes in an idea and its properties before it becomes words or pictures, the way vision takes in a scene. People who have it can hold a proto-thought steady, pay attention to it, and notice more detail the longer they attend.
A few of us compare notes and share techniques for learning with thoughtfeel at reddit.com/r/ThoughtFeel, and there's a 1-minute test at thoughtfeel.net. Thanks for writing this up.
Ted
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing - have been trying to derive all of this from my own experience. Glad to know there's been some interesting work done here already!
Glad it helped. Hurlburt & Akhter (2008), "Unsymbolized thinking", in Consciousness and Cognition, is a good place to start on the research. What have you worked out so far from your own experience?