SCRAMBLED TEXT Unfortunately, while skilled readers can read scrambled text easi

SCRAMBLED TEXT

Unfortunately, while skilled readers can read scrambled text easily, this ability, can develop into a weakness. In my case, I often cannot actually ‘see’ scrambled words, misspellings, or even the letters present on the page themselves – even if I attempt to, or even if I read backwards. In most cases I ‘see’ paragraphs, or sets of paragraphs ‘whole’ just as most people see words ‘whole’ rather than as collections of words or sequences of letters. ‘Scanning’ has become the only kind of reading I’m capable of. Novels have lost their emotional appeal.

INTERESTING TIDBIT

Rawlinson’s paper was not accepted originally, despite his having used fairly good mathematics and evidence behind it, it has become a prominent feature of cognitive psychology.

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/rawlinson/

NICK CARR TAKES IT FURTHER

Nick’s Pulitzer Prize Candidate on our transformation from readers to scanners.

http://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=16

MY ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS

Is that ‘reading’, like listening to a narrative, suspends disbelief (criticism) and creates the ability to program one another through narratives (myths). While simple pattern recognition from scanning lots of similar arguments is much closer to using judgement. So I am not sure that ‘scanning’ isn’t a superior technique for humans to make use of. Our problem was low information density, and we seem to have solved it. If we have extremely high information density, we can make far more judgements by intuitive pattern recognition (which is very good) and far fewer through our (very frail) reason. And even better, we are less subject to being victims of suspension of disbelief from the narrative.

We will be less victims of additional lies like monotheism, pseudoscience and postmodernism.

(Thank you as always for your assistance Johannes Meixner)