Following Up - 'Mental Templates from Our Past'

What we see depends largely on what we have experienced.

You can be blinded by your expertise.

Follow-up of 'Mister Thinking-Cap' in post Horizontal Switch Technological Approach as of February 2011, some more from

Professor Allan Snyder, 'Centre for The Mind', Sydney, Australia, talking in Stockholm 2011:

Some excerpts:

... Very few people are able to do that after learning how to do the type 1.

... Once you see the Dalmatian it is very difficult to see the hyena.

... We attempt to reduce the top-down imposition of prior knowledge and we do that by inhibiting part of the brain

... and this we believe leads to a qualitatively different type of cognitive enhancement, one that is less dependent on expectations.

Some on results of the experiments :

... People are slower in labeling a group of things than they are at identifying the different parts that make it up.

... Once you know the lable you can't see the parts.

and also not if things, once in a 'box', might change; my comment. In times with so many changes it could at least be interesting to listen a little once a while to the 'other side' which is more free from predefined concepts.

But that is also only my humble opinion.

And as I liked it, from an interview see source below:

You see, advancing knowledge is very much a lower-down subset. Radically changing how we think about something, is quite different than incrementally advancing a field.

And if possible, connecting both and when one of the qualities is more needed, applying at the proper time the proper skillset.

As always, take care to put the pieces to the proper place in the puzzle. What we get is input - how we proceed it is ours. That's it from my side for a while, I guess. Might be I'll take some break ... so please go ahead, thinking and linking.

With love,
yours little autistic (well, I knooooow),
Lyn


Links if you feel for:
http://www.superconsciousness.com/topics/science/interview-professor-allan-snyder
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-impossible-problem-non-invasive-brain.html
http://www.centreforthemind.com/whoweare/index.cfm
http://www.centreforthemind.com/director/index.cfm