In article <7fr9hl8oiv.fsf at faith.csis.hku.hk>,
Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~} <sdlee at faith.csis.hku.hk> wrote:
>>Try playing the game of Tetris, too! I can't see how far one could
>get if he plays it by verbal thinking.
>>Go and have a ride a bike or drive a car. Don't tell me you don't
>think when you're driving or riding a bike. And don't tell me that
>you have to talk to yourself in words inside your mind when you're
>doing this kind of thinking. Otherwise, you'll be too slow to react
>to anything, let alone accidents.
I guess it depends what you call thinking. I wouldn't consider reacting
to be thinking. When you first start playing Tetris, or driving, one
isn't very good, and in my case there is a lot of verbal thinking going
on. "That piece will fit and fill the row" etc. As you gain experience
and have already solved the problems, you simply recognize a situation,
and reapply the same solution.
I'm willing to accept that different people think differently, but for me
I would consider verbal thinking very important, and write notes on paper
to help me think. I would argue that any thinking that takes a long time,
and can be interrupted requires at least some verbal thinking to keep on
track, and communicate between the different parts of the brain.
John Turnbull
