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In our last article we saw how to make a world model to guide your actions every day. In this article, we go a bit 'deeper and begin to analyze some of the simplest models with which they weave the world model.
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How can you recognize people in your workplace, or know the meanings of texts of a rock star is singing? What allows you to perform complex tasks like taking a shower without being aware ofevery muscle movement necessary for foam, rinse and dry your body in a coordinated manner? The answer lies in the brain's ability to create and record the patterns of associations and seemingly endless distinctions, and compare these models with the experience going to make sense. To fully appreciate how complex and surprising this system, you can take a moment to trace the sources of these patterns and determine what they are made.
What is a unit ofexperience, and how it is assembled in these models are stored as templates? The following example is a loose analogy of the process:
Have you ever watched the images of the mosaic? These are images that are composed of many tiny pictures. If you've never seen one, do a Google search for "mosaic image. If you were to look closely at such a picture, you would see that the image is made up of dozens of small images, and image size, as well as brightness,varies, depending on the form you are viewing is due to appear to the naked eye. If you isolate a single image in a magnifying glass, has little meaning for everything. Also expands the scope to ten images may not lead to an emerging picture in terms of overall picture. If you widen the scope far enough, the model of small images can begin to give you a clue, and you may begin to rcognize a model may be identified as an eye or beak. When you remove the magnificationGlass of all, it recognizes the model of a penguin (or any object that you were viewing). A photo … more pictures … the entire structure. To keep our analogy, suppose that a picture is a "unit" of visual sensory experience.
Even recognizing the letters in this sentence (the letter E, for example) requires registration and access to a model of many individual units of visual "data". To make sense of these individual patterns may require assemblingin ever-greater patterns. For example, even if we recognize the individual letters in this text, the creation of meaning from the pattern of letters of the word "cat" requires access to further associations. We learned that the word cat is a symbol for another experience. This symbol is associated with different experiences in memory, and in order to decide which of these experiences is what is necessary to add other symbols, which, through association chains af, at the endprovides access to expertise in communication. It 's a small tiger cat friendly, or a big fluffy white Persian?
To understand the last sentence, he was to receive individual units of experience, grouped in patterns that are known as the letters, which are then put together into patterns called words. And yet, there is no need verbal language to make out visual patterns.
Stop for a second.
Wherever you are now, look around you and notice everythingdo not recognize, even if you do not tell yourself about it. You instantly recognize familiar objects because of the template you have stored in memory as objects are being displayed outside of those models. Not only have the ability to immediately recognize, but you also have models of association in memory, making it possible for you to identify what you see. The identification of an object is a matter of access patterns that tell the associationsWhat does that object as are its characteristics, such as acts and reacts, what can you expect when you around, what you can actually do with it. Through identification, you can know whether this object represents a threat and how you can avoid it. It does all this with the chains of associations registered in memory.
In the last paragraph, I used the word "object" but can also mean a person or animal. In addition, I used words to describe visual processes of recognition and identification.The same can be applied to other senses as well (auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory and gustatory). You recognize and identify through the five senses.
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The most useful way to understand the distinctions is that they are to discern the differences between otherwise similar experiences (people, objects or events). Obviously, you can immediately notice the differences between similar people, objects or events. What matters is how you use these distinctionsin our daily experience.
One way to understand is that the distinctions are "switchpoints" in patterns of associations. One can easily notice when talking to another person. Let's say you're talking to your friend. Using adjectives and adverbs in your language (distinction) to help your body models appropriate access associations in their memory, to help them understand more fully what you are saying. Here's an example to make this obvious.
I will usethe word car. It combines broad experience with a word car. Now, using some distinctions, incorporated as adjectives and adverbs, you will have access to some specific experiences. Car 1: Silver, 4 doors, noisy, wide tires, alloy wheels is different from Car 2:, 2 doors, silent, dusty red tires.
As I said before, these descriptions are available in all sensory modalities. What is the difference between watching a silver car and drive a silver car? The second will probably lead toI remember touching a steering wheel, grabbing a stickshift and maybe even step on the accelerator the engine sound.
When you're in the here and now (without describing the experience in language) is also used distinctions. When playing basketball, for example, we must distinguish the players from your team and opposing team, so you can know that you can pass the ball. As quickly becomes unconscious, first had to create distinctions about your teamhomogeneous and uniform of the other team. While the form of uniforms may be identical, their colors are not very likely. Without a word to identify each team, you associate the color of uniforms for the act of passing the ball. A distinction between the uniform can know who to pass.
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You store individual units of sensory experience. These units combine to create models that are stored in memory and serve as a model of youuse to recognize and identify people, objects and events. The color patterns, shapes and brightness can recognize and identify visually. Patterns of height, volume and tone to help you recognize and identify hearing. The patterns of temperature, pressure and intensity allow you to recognize and identify kinesthetically. Patterns of flavor, sourness and sweetness allow you to recognize and identify gustatorily. The models of odor, flavor and aroma to the recognition and identificationolfactory.
All these assemble necessary information for your environment. It keeps track of these models and use them as models against which our experience during PEG. This allows you to interpret what is happening in your environment and what to expect from it.
In articles to come we will see how you use associations and distinctions in mental processes more complex.
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