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Intuitives - Vision Analogies Metaphors & Patterns – VAMP.
As anyone that reads my “articles” will be aware, I strongly suspect that linear type (procedural & convergent) minds are concentrated more towards the front of the cerebral cortex. So let’s move on. Now, let’s consider the intuitively orientated mind. Intuition is a very difficult abstract to define, even more so given that there are different types of intuition, for this article I will focus more on creative (Innovative) intuition and primarily from an Intuitive & Thinking (NT) type mindset. The great linkage between all the factors of “Innovative Intuition” is the concept of Metaphors and Analogies (Meta expressive language). Metaphors and Analogies require the mind to understand patterns determine difference and identify linkages. In effect the fuzzy logic which can connect expressions of different senses. As an example from the internet, consider “The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.” Such expressions allow the writer to combine senses and convey these to the reader with a fuller interpretation of the environment. While very subjective if we look at the area of the brain termed Brodmann area 39 that is “partially responsible” for understanding metaphors then we can see surrounding areas such as (Brodmann 17,18,19) vision areas and as an instance area 22 which gives rise to subordinate interpretation of ambiguity. It looks reasonably feasible that area 39 could be processing diverse inputs from nearby locations, hence the mix of expressive and descriptive understandings. In addition to simple thinking analogies and feeling metaphors, there appears to be a further twist. I’ll use a personal example and deconstruct it so that you can see where I am coming from. Firstly consider the metaphorical statement “I’m sick of telling Turkeys all their Christmases have come at once”. This was an expression that I stated “on the hoof” and in retrospect realised that it was actually a combination of 2 metaphorical statements, namely a) “Turkeys voting for Christmas” (negative) and b) “All your Christmases have come at once” (positive). Which then made me think of the concept of the Split-Brain (alien hand syndrome), where one side of the brain is throwing up a negative connotation and the other throwing up a positive connotation, resulting in a blended statement with subconscious roots. In effect the conscious pulling up 2 metaphors to express the same situation, the key being "Christmas" (Positive). In terms of vision, it is a necessary component to visualise the metaphor, it may be one of the reasons why metaphors are expressed by various individuals (whom are visualists). But vision must be a substantial component in any pattern determination and visualising connections, linkages and differences. One would expect those with an intuitive feeling orientation to have more feeling orientated metaphors (Which are embedded in poetry/songs etc (Divergence of senses)) compared to thinking types which will be more visualist (Convergent towards the primary sense). Lastly, and even more subjectively I tend to believe that those whom are metaphorically orientated, learn by connectivity. Each piece of acquired knowledge is connected to a piece(s) of prior knowledge; discrete information is poorly retained as it cannot be connected easily to the prior frameworks of understanding. In effect and using an analogy, it is like an increasing concentric circle of understanding which while slower to build out (as each new piece of information has to be linked into the framework) cumulatively covers a far greater area of potential interconnected understanding and is quicker to come to that solution in an unstructured problem setting, than a simple linear thinker who’s basis is a continuum of discrete information storage. (Like Intuitives (divergent) versus Sensors (linear)). E.g. Metaphors and analogies are the gears to meta level problem solving. |
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