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From: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling
Keywords: Intuition, Synthetic Reasoning, Analogy, Nonverbal Processing
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Date: 15 Jan 89 01:09:09 GMT
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In article <43583@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes:
>
>I, for one, would love to clean up my inefficient and erratic
>right-hemisphere and install some decent code.
>
   Read _Software For The Mind_ by Emmett E. Miller M.D., Celestial Arts,
   Berkely California, 1987.

   A very good self hypnosis type book that primarily addresses stress
   reduction and psychosomatic illness.  I use these techniques to solve
   analysis and design related problems at an increasing rate and have
   found the techniques indispensible. :-)  These types of "skills" have
   increasingly "crept" into my conscious processing mode and I now
   seem to solve almost all "hard" problems following hunches that inevitably 
   lead to "I found it!".  It has almost become predictable.

   A theory I recently heard is that *all* problem solving may be performed
   by "right brain reasoning" and that the linguistic components simply act
   as an interpreter that is continuously attempting to describe the 
   "intuitive patterns".  Another way of describing it:  Stored data is 
   analyzed using correlative reasoning. An interpreter looks for the 
   trends (symbols and relations) and constructs formalized languages.

Steve Bickel