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[NT] NTPs and understanding things thru pictures

Cypocalypse

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I'm just wondering if this is a part of Ne, but when you think of concepts, does it have a visual imprint in your mind?

For example, let's consider a somewhat complex thought:

capitalism versus socialism

When I think of something like that, I think of two armies, where one is represented by the business class, the other, represented by the state (government), and they battle on Middle Earth or something.

Not necessarily that I want to put LOTR universe in the mix, but it just gives me a somewhat surreal picture of the two ruling entities that clash.

___________

Anyway, I think that for most of the things that get stuck in my long term memory, they need to have some sort of a visual (if not other sensory) imprint in me, otherwise, sheer textual information can easily be forgotten.

Another example:

1 mile = 1.6 kilometers -------> forgettable
1 mile = roughly from my house (point A) to a certain mall (Point B) -------> easily remembered.
 

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Sorry, I'm more of an intuitive concept getter, and a word-thinker to boot.
 

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Yeah, I do.

As an example:

Capitalism
(Buildings of different sizes)
images


vs.


Socialism
(Buildings all pretty much the same size)
images


And here's somebody who loves capitalism:

kingkong.jpg


And here's somebody who loves socialism:

300px-godzilla_1954_extras-1.jpg


When capitalism and socialism fight:

fm475_king_kong_vs_godzilla.jpg


That's how it goes in my mind.

The end.

:)
 

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Right brained correlation, not NTP.
 

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Yes very much so ... I see different concepts clearly in visuals, and this explains my quick grasp of complex concepts
 
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INTP bf loves conceptual art. He can sit for hours. However, once in a while, a boob flashes by. :shock:
 

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What is up with all the LOTR references? It is so ironic.

Anyways, yes. Mind mind is a little movie theater. I display thoughts in pics too!
 

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I never think in images, I even have problems navigating thru places I been to a million times. The words capitalism and socialism invoke the sentence in my head "oh god I hate it when people use the word socialism instead of communism to prove a point about political systems"

But no images at all. I am tho good at setting anchoring points in the visual world. If I for example drive down a road I only have driven down once, I remember crucial points, like a sign, a house, a tree; this so often gets very mixed up and distorted in my head so it's no wonder I will drive to San Francicsco when I wanted to go to New York.

Navigation Computer ftw !
 

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I never think in images, I even have problems navigating thru places I been to a million times. The words capitalism and socialism invoke the sentence in my head "oh god I hate it when people use the word socialism instead of communism to prove a point about political systems"

+1000

When I'm having a conversation and someone says something, I visualize it in a literal form and erupt into laughter. But mostly no, I don't remember in pictures consistently - sometimes yes and sometimes no.
 

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As I believe I've said in several posts before, I do have a "visual" mind. However, it's not anything near a photographic memory. The basis of it is more along the lines of using the essential essence of something, which isn't always the essence as much as it could be something associated with the object for whatever reason. (One connection that entered my mind when I was learning multiplication was that the number 8 meant fire, 7 meant trees, and 56 meant raging forest fire. It makes complete sense in the back of my mind. 3 represents water in general, 5 represents wind, and 4, the average of the two, represents rain.)

And while I do think in images, I don't feel it's quite as the OP described, although it's rather similar.
 

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I usually think in words, not pictures. I'm very much an auditive person rather then a visual one. That said, I have an excellent memory for routes, locations and places.
 

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3 represents water in general, 5 represents wind, and 4, the average of the two, represents rain.)

Ya thats good too. I use that for learning for University. Sometimes the bridges I have build to remember things are even more complicated than the thing to be remembered itself :D
 

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i have no idea how i think...but its not in pics and its not in words

words are a literal representation of the stuff that is going inside my head...i loved when i first learned the semantics of the word 'respectively'...words encapsulate my thought nicely

but actually thinking? i dont even know where to begin on how i think. its in threads...animations...graphs....ratios...recursion

ive tried so many times to figure out how Ne works...i have to slow it down in order to watch it in action...but then it becomes deliberate attempt at thinking and im not sure if im using Ne at that point...
 

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I too think in generally non-verbal ways when I'm at my best.
 

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Nah I don't really think in pictures. I sometimes see the words (as in the letters not pictures of the meaning of the words) flash up in my head, but for the most part it's a non-stop train of wordy thought going on in there. :tongue:
 

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I think in image form. It's very general and not all that exact. Also most of the images don't have an actual way to represent them. There would be overlap and interference where there isn't in my mind.
 

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I like visualization, but while I'm awake there is a monologue running thru my head. Much like the news ticker at the bottom of the cable news channels.
 

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I like visualization, but while I'm awake there is a monologue running thru my head. Much like the news ticker at the bottom of the cable news channels.

That's Ne, its shenanigans are cheeky and fun! My inner dialogue is Ti, which is cruel and tragic, which really makes it not shenanigans at all.
 

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half visualized, half verbalized. I've never gotten seriously lost in well known and also new places, also I'm pretty okay in drawing, painting and all kind of picture creating (except when it comes to glue smth together :D), I would say my visual skills are way more better than verbal, but as an entp, I guess I'm pretty OKay (but definitely not brilliant) in essay writing, speech giving and talking publicly in general. And my mind also runs half visualized, half verbalized.
 
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