/lit/ - Literature

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> The question is whether pic-related serves as an adequate description of representation.
Usually we don't "see" representations unless we are talking about visual tricks (pic related), typically representations are of physical feelings, concepts, multi-dimensional abstractions and things like that. For example, when you look at a bleeding hand or some other bodily disaster, you might have an empathetic projection, maybe a quick feeling in your hand, or when you see some tactile fluffy material like a coat you might have a sense of what it feels like. In day to day action your mind puts together flash representations to create a sense of space and time. Like the drawing, these are usually merged into combined ideas, like legos of different type and shape connected together. It's not one dimensional because it involves multiple senses, multiple memories, abstract ideas, all of it gelling together in random ways to allow us to accomplish tasks and achieve goals. We aren't just sitting down, powerless, as representations flash before us like watching a movie. We are actively navigating a multi-dimensional imagination space of feelings, sound relations, internal vocabulary/monologue, as well as differently formed concepts. I guess, symbolically, the diagram can describe one potentiality of how representations happen.