THINKING-IN-PICTURES-?
 (or the good use of these famous "pictures",
the apple of Newton, the ray-beam of Einstein...)
        Me permettez-vous de définir la seconde moitié du XXème siècle, (la percée de l'ordinateur, prolongation de notre cerveau),  comme la recherche d'une nouvelle manière de penser. Elle a  du moins vu  disparaître l'aPensée satammiste, selon régle: "Qui ne répond plus, consent". La reprise par des "maleteros", des "espontaneos" ne fait que renforcer mon argumentation. A partir du moment où le leader renonce à défendre son charabia et s'effondre comme un étaut-limeur, dans un trou noir , toute OPA sur cette mafia est un aveu de filiation suicidaire...

"Any type of thinking for/by/with the the computer..."
depends surely of a perfect description of
"how man really thinks".
     Einstein, (selon nos Gurus du M.I.T.),  pensait en images? Pourquoi vous n'essayez pas? A recent paper on Einstein's Brain revealed a strange confusion in the brain of the greatest, most artificial M.I.T. Guru. The Chumsker-Pinky school also seems to confuse "linguistics", (such as proposed by Saussure and Wittgentein: "Without the rails of language, our brain cannot think; with these rails, he has the freedom of a train..." and "grammatics, "description of the rails indispensable to any language".
       When a lady thought Einstein would explain relativity for a doughnut, he just answered:
"OK, but first explain your recipe to a Martian with no idea of salt, sugar, flour..."
     "Stupid to use three whites and two yellows! Salt and butter can do!"
    Vinci, (according to Bill Gates), did think in analogies? Why don't you try? 
          It seems that he  copied the idea from a widely-known specialist. But does BillingsGate himself  think in analogy? I doubt  it, on international expert title, 
obtained  in 1965, I propose a M.I.S. considered by the programmers as the Eldorado of the Century. 
        Bill Gates pocketed the stakes and blocked all progress,  as Freudy did in neuropsychology and autismology. 
         Holly Spirit, (my computer), go put the order, in bip-autist, 
                           full of liturgies, demanding to wait for the 500ème anniversaire de sa Monna.  A cette occasion, je relirai toutes mes textes, juste des notes de voyage; et proposerai un revision de mon cours de 
"créativité après l'ordinateur"...
      Locke was absolutely sure that understanding "how Newton's brain worked" was the solution to "thinking". I believed it then I saw the big mistake: how could such so perfect a brain make so many mistakes, (chiefly on the 'satammism'...).
       But we could as well say "How did Zenon's brain work?". 
        I like to beat my 'models', at least on somepoint. Newton ejected popism from England?
       I did better and worse, (division de opiniones")
     After noting the poverty of Vinci's vocabulary, I use two words: "representation" in memory of Schopenhauer, and "analogy" in memory of Vinci. True thinking, (my opinion), is just finding "analogies" when people, (that think they think), don't see them. And piling them... It seems that "Top-Autists" have a knack to pile up 'layers". 
   At Easter 1965, I beat my record, with 36 layers and got the famous M.I.S. Then? I added two dozens, through autistic vice and solitary pleasure.  I felt a great comfort, the disappearance of my anxiety, with this possibility to find jobs more than easily, and maybe  some Schopenhauerian pride. Then, I waited 20 years to be  protected from BillingsGates.
   (But I still think that my "Revelation of Satammism", at the significant age of 22, could be much more important for Humanity.)
        We use "visual thinking" but just as a mathematician uses paper to "visualize" his equations. Then? we pile on piles: I could see that more important was inside my "pagode"...
      Qualifié d'asperger, (avec peut-être droit-sur-titres à "haut-fonctionnaire"?), ayant parlé vers 5 ans, je note la préoccupation des "psys" de nous faire parler pour nous socialiser, (la tcha-tcha comme médecine?).
   Je suis surtout préoccupé par le nombre de "petits gangsters" que la "CuniCuliCulture" a produit... Même si aucun "psy" n'a su voir venir cette vague, elle était parfaitement prévisible:
- on the basis of a little psychology, (New-borns have only an anchor, "gustatio" on which we graft our basis for Civisation: God and Devil and Sins...); 
-  from my experiences, as a teacher, (with a not ordinary CV!), being initiated in a geographically lost tribe, (and admiring their wisdom in education, before the Roldan girl was born), and as a father, (before "Barbary with a divine mask" took my daughters from me, a not yet finished "affair").
 Who cried with me:
Destroy-the-nests,
they'll-destroy-breasts!
Cassez-leurs-niches,
ils-casseront-les-miches!
Rompen-los-nidos,
romperàn-los-"huevos"!
Thanks to Nattier's Exhibition,  I revisited Versailles:
What_are_princesses-made-of?
of-margarine-and-ketch-up...
 ( Nattier was a photographer placing royalties in Louvres before facial decomposition,
near  Mona and the Fayoum girls).
    Contemplating the most visited building in the world, (that house any petrol-Jack could built...), I placed the left-left wing on the right-right one, and so on, till I got a Pisa Tower.
did-I-think-in-pictures?
During my Rimbaud-Trobriand period, 
I introduced the wheel-barrow in North Togoland. Three fellows filled with sand, 
then  put it on the head of one of them. They probably thought in picture, only seeing a box.
               When a tunnel in the Alps was  destroyed by a mad driver, a map of these tunnels was published. Vision: with ten lorries, a bin-terrorist could stop the European exchanges for one year!  This vision needs a linking with other structures. Maybe, I should take care but "creativity starts with a shock" and  "governing is pre-seeing".
        Apparently, our schools and cursus for "governors" don't prepare them to that work.
    Therefore I change to history...
Strange: most cities are situated at ten kilometers from the coast. Athens is different: it IS NOT a harbourg; it HAS one, most probably added later, (in fact there is anoter city, very small with a harbourg and long walls; it was built by Athenians, against Corinth!) A good starter, that will lead you to another view of Athens... and explain that this city did not discover democracy. Read Platon's rules for "human cattle"  and write a destructive thesis on this golden civisation, (no more a human civilisation than "satammism", just its complement!!)
 When my prof of psychology treated me of 
"the most absent-minded guy ever seen", he distinguished a low class and an upper one: "My speciality was to rebuild the world staring of  any sentence I had heard"... I  ask no explanation:
I was awaken when hearing my name but I had not attended what he had said  before..
        A picture can only be  a starter for true thinking.Are they a "starter" or just an explanation? to get rid of us?
        "A picture is an image, a copy, a photo of a thing, not a concept. Confirmed by  Brochard, in "Etudes de philosophie ancienne et de philosophie moderne", 1926):
"A concept is a sign of a thing, (and not its image), what the mind substitutes to this thing, (to this image), an equivalent..."
        Let's reverse:
        Thinking is moving, adding, cutting, comparing, in details or in general. "I think in pictures" means "I confound visualisation and conceptualisation... For the first type, I would think of Kasparov imaging the five next moves. The strangest case could be Vinci, that possessed an uncommon capacity of vision and pre-vision and used drawing as a language and a teaching. But apparently, he was "prosopamnesian". And his way of thinking, "true analogy",  (lost, since the Greeks of the Miracle), confirms it.
  Let's hear, now, Dr Temple:
...it took time to train my visual mind to make the connection between the symbolic lines on alayout drawing and an actual building. To learn this I had to take the set of blueprints and walk around in the building, looking at the square concrete support columns, seeing how the little squares on the drawing related to the actual columns. After I had "programmed" my brain to read drawings, the ability to draw blueprints appeared almost by magic. It took time to get information in, but after I was "programmed", the skill appeared rather suddenly.
     Some children have a strange gift: they look at a building, close their eyes, then start counting the windows. Do they think in pictures? they could be good architects, drawing boat machineries...
    What's interesting in this relation? "Temple had to cross, (consciously), this "pont-aux-ânes", ("bridge for asses");  because retarded, while any child does it unconsciously... And she did it, without losing her extraordinary "visualisation" and reùmained better gifted for architecture than the 'masters of the art".
That's "water to my mill"!people obliged "to think without faces", ("prosopamnesians", like me), find  a lot of advantages as many drawbacks drawbacks.
        Maybe, this facility, (linking a house with its drawing), is  very recent!.
"As-tu-vu-Bismarck,-qui-chiait-dans-son-casque..."
        In France, we are trained to think with blueprints since Sedan, (1870!),
        This defeat revealed that the French officers could not read a map! And to catch up with Britain, we needed workers able to read a drawing.

  Therefore,  Jules  Ferry , not a humanit'arian, (he was labelled "Colonialist",  "Starver"), made us jump from "flat-thinking to "bi-layer-thinking". Dupont could work with a drawing and the French Army built the German-patented gun with long-recoil. It led to the "Dreyfus Affair", an extraordinary three-layers-pagode in the History of Thought, demanding a reading, too abstract for "satammists"...
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      Returning to Temple's or Donna's cases, they will be useful 
in the pagode: 
    "Steps in the march to true geniuses". 
      Till then,  just  "ladies-in-waiting of a revelation".


Post Scriptum 1: An  example of "thinking in analogy"
       "What should Temple's Apparatus remember you immediately?"

-  Doctor's Lécuyer's strange chair for recently borns?
____ - The treatment called  "PACKING" ?
____ - The treatment called "THERAPEUTIC HOLDING"?
        Is this "thinking in pictures"?(another day, I'll use this case as a "kick-the-tortoise" to kill "theories of mind"...)
        Anybody, aping Fraudy, can link Temple's Machine to an inconscious  "return-to-maternal womb".

Post Scriptum 2:
ZENON THOUGHT IN PICTURES?
        For a long time I thought his paradoxes were just enthusiasm for the discovery of logic, like Ucello, mad by and for the discovery of perspective. But why these stories for children became a challenge for any "thinker"?
        Victor Brochard  considered that Zenon's arguments against movement could be one of the important problems of philosophy, ("Essai de philosophie ancienne et de philosophie moderne", Paris 1927). He "awoke" Koyré that produced an exhaustive summary of all  comments on Zenon's paradoxes, (" Etudes d'histoire de la pensée philosophique", TEL Gallimard, 1971, pages 9 à 35.
     I have chosen Zenon as the symbol of the Greek miracle and the leader for my second 'noodigm': did he "thought in pictures", using Achilles, the Tortoise, the Stadium.
        I think that the Olympus was a useful step: They spoke of the powers of thh Gods, then of the powers without gos, movement, speed, force... But is the prohibition by religions of "thinking any god in pictures"  a progress? No more than the "agnoticism", a kind of intello-racism.
      It's obvious that when Zenon says "movement", he does not consider a beginning, (a starting-block for the tortoise, or Paris throwing the arrow toward Achilles). Therefore, we should store Zenon's eternally flying arrow and desperately running  rabbits with the light-beam of Albert... and the charitable story for Alice's tea-party.
     Zenon and friends thought movement with a modern scientific mind, even describing "Cartesian immobility" as a movement that stops instantly. And I link with Kant and Schopenhauer's reflection on relativity, (80 years before Einstein). Zenon's paradoxes  are not different of the two boats used by Kant. But Zenon added a reflection on 'movement', logically  because it needs "time" and 'space'.
            Zenon precursor of Einstein and Schopenhauer?