In a message dated 4/24/08 9:30:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I say there are no mental images as the > fundamental consciousness of sensation, emotivion, > desire) There are no little carrots in our heads. > There are no pictures there. We create them with > spoken or unspoken (silently said) words and > gestures, sounds, marks. > > We have to be misunderstanding each other here. When I hear "Abraham Lincoln" I claim a "picture", however blurry, arises in my mind. I feel confident about the claim because of the dire fact of how lousy my visualization is. That handicap has made me listen in something like awe to my wife -- formerly a interior designer -- when she described the picture in her mind as she visualized a huge factory-room redesigned to hold offices; to my son -- a movie director -- as he described the picture in his mind's eye as he set up the next shot in his film; and to novel-writing authors. M.M. Kaye, the author of THE FAR PAVILIONS, told me this: When she was writing the scene in her book with the great charge of the Brit cavalry generations ago in Jalalabad, she realized she "didn't know where Wally was. So I got them all back down to the botom of the hill and" -- at this point she had her eyes shut -- "I charged them all back up the hill, and there was Wally in the upper right hand corner."
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