Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

(It’s because I work the entire day pretty much without breaks except for the three hours or so every night that I devote to b-movies and crash and prank videos.)

Probably going to re-read Taleb again tonight. I am getting close to putting something I sense, into words, and I think I might just be able to do it if I read something ‘in the neighborhood’. And he’s ‘in the neighborhood’.

When we listen to stories around the fire we ‘envision’. I don’t know if there is a name for this particular thing other than envisioning, and suspension of disbelief (and vulnerability to suggestion).

I notice that when I’m arguing with other people there are some of us who ‘envision’ all sorts of phenomenon ( experience all sorts of unrelated information). And there are some of us who merely test whether these statements can be true or not given the information that we have.

When I ‘imagine'(dream) and when I model(predict), and when I prosecute (test), I think very differently in each mode: narrower each time.

There is something important here that I if I can put into words then we can teach people to use separately, and not conflate dreaming with testing.

Because there is some close relation between people who dream and use meaningful terms, and people who test and use analytic terms.

Do I really need another thing to figure out? lol