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for example, how would you write a piece of code? using images in your head? are those images of code? if so, then that for me is dialogue. i dont think people

for example, how would you write a piece of code? using images in your head? are those images of code? if so, then that for me is dialogue. i dont think people have some kind of mental sign language to represent every possible concept they have ever experienced. thats what language is for.

Jensson 5y ago
> how would you write a piece of code? using images in your head? are those images of code? You think about what you want to write, then you write it. No, not images, thoughts doesn't need to be images, its just thoughts. No, they aren't code, the thoughts are just representations of programming concepts and abstractions that I can't name or visualize. It is like, when you think about a person and their personality, how does those thoughts work? Do you get words that represents everything about that persons personality? No, of course not, you can't fully capture a person in words or images. Yet you can still think and reason about their personality. That is the pure way your thoughts works. You can think about everything using abstract thoughts like that, including math, programming etc. The fact that some people can't think about math or programming without translating that to language is very fascinating to me.
Karawebnetwork 5y ago
No images, no text, no voice. When I code, I simply sit in front of the computer and it happens. It's similar to tying knots or driving a car, except applied to my entire life. Once people master tying their shoes they don't think "alright friend, let's have this rabbit run around the tree". They just do it and it happens. When you drive as an experienced driver, you do not think "red means stop, red means stop, look in the mirror, look at the road". You just automatically compute what is going around you. Simply apply that to everything and that's how my mind, and the mind of a lot of people, works. I once tried to learn how to speed read. One of the core concept is "do not vocalize the words, just think through them". At first this had me confused as to why people would actually focus for long enough to generate an internal noise for each sound. This sounded like a way to slow down your reading on purpose. Then I learned that some people have an automatic voice that reads everything and the effort is flipped, it's a conscious effort to quiet it while for me it's a conscious effort to generate it. In my eyes, since people are able to unlearn that, it's not impossible for you to empathize about it. It's simply hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes when the concepts are very alien to how you experience life. Take the aphantasic community as an example, at first many people "call bs" about the fact that other people could see images.

Jensson 5y ago

> how would you write a piece of code? using images in your head? are those images of code? You think about what you want to write, then you write it. No, not images, thoughts doesn't need to be images, its just thoughts. No, they aren't code, the thoughts are just representations of programming concepts and abstractions that I can't name or visualize. It is like, when you think about a person and their personality, how does those thoughts work? Do you get words that represents everything about that persons personality? No, of course not, you can't fully capture a person in words or images. Yet you can still think and reason about their personality. That is the pure way your thoughts works. You can think about everything using abstract thoughts like that, including math, programming etc. The fact that some people can't think about math or programming without translating that to language is very fascinating to me.

Karawebnetwork 5y ago

No images, no text, no voice. When I code, I simply sit in front of the computer and it happens. It's similar to tying knots or driving a car, except applied to my entire life. Once people master tying their shoes they don't think "alright friend, let's have this rabbit run around the tree". They just do it and it happens. When you drive as an experienced driver, you do not think "red means stop, red means stop, look in the mirror, look at the road". You just automatically compute what is going around you. Simply apply that to everything and that's how my mind, and the mind of a lot of people, works. I once tried to learn how to speed read. One of the core concept is "do not vocalize the words, just think through them". At first this had me confused as to why people would actually focus for long enough to generate an internal noise for each sound. This sounded like a way to slow down your reading on purpose. Then I learned that some people have an automatic voice that reads everything and the effort is flipped, it's a conscious effort to quiet it while for me it's a conscious effort to generate it. In my eyes, since people are able to unlearn that, it's not impossible for you to empathize about it. It's simply hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes when the concepts are very alien to how you experience life. Take the aphantasic community as an example, at first many people "call bs" about the fact that other people could see images.