22.1.10
Images for Thought
For an assignment in another class, I read a chapter in a book called Western Wind (an introduction to poetry) by David Mason and John Frederick Nims. This chapter attributed all thinking to images. When a word is used, the reader has an image flutter through their mind. From the day we are born, we are taught to relate certain images with certain attributes. If I say the word hot, what do you see? A sunburned man, sweating large droplets of sweat, surrounding by nothing but cactuses. Or, the coils of a stove red hot and ready for a pot. The point is the word hot is processed in our minds using images. Without these images a word could not be processed, or thought. As the Darci project started to take shape in my mind; words swirling around in chaos began to settle down into a pattern that I seemed to understand. I read this chapter about imagery and thought, and realized this is what Darci does. She has images that she relates to a word. So when she is given a word she provides an image that she feels relates. Is this much different than the human process of thought?
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I completely disagree. This is from the point of someone who can see with their eyes. There are millions of people who have been blind since birth who cannot rely on visual imagery and memory to process and translate language. Somehow they manage to do just fine.
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The idea isn't that off. It simply needs to be extended to all of our senses. We associate and process words with all of our senses. In humans, vision is by far the most dominant sense, so it is understandable that we process words and concepts in our minds primarily with images. As far as DARCI is concerned, images are all she can "sense" right now.
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