Modes of Reason (Meta Thought)?
May. 30th, 2015 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sathorI find that there are different modes of thought - mutually exclusive - that my mind embodies depending on circumstance or need.
The first, is a reflective and analytical mode. It's dominated by dialogue either in my head, or at times (although more infrequently) out loud. This dialogue is mostly examination of current circumstances, situations - hypothetical situations, or ideas, theories and the like. I think it's honestly the least fruitful of all the modes. When I use it to try to solve problems, it doesn't seem all that helpful. It seems like it's use has more to do with categorizing, filing and refining thoughts than it does any sort of solving.
The second, is an active mode. The dialogue almost entirely shuts off - as it does in my other modes. When I write, or speak, typically my internal dialogue is silent. When I'm playing music for instance, there's no "running dialogue" and if there is analysis going on, it's from a different angle. Not an angle of language or formulaic reason. This mode is much more intuitive, and has more to do with results. I might use this when solving a real physical-world problem at work, or in my music, or with a current situation. It seems especially odd to me that when talking, or when writing, my dialogue is 99% silent, and my decision making with regards to what to delete or change in a writing, for instance, seems swayed by some sub-processing that I'm not fully cognizant of. It's based on feeling, or some more esoteric or ephemeral thing. It's not based on some concrete, rational, language-based, rigid system of thought. What's this sub-processing, and where did it come from? Is it naturally occurring, or was it a program that was socialized into me?
The third, is a reactionary mode. I think this is the mode that dominates my psyche when I'm in social situations. This mode primarily just deals with categorizing, sorting and trying to comprehend whatever is going on in the environment. If I'm using it, I have a hard time using the others - which means that I get quiet, even if I don't necessarily want to be. I know, the description I'm giving seems like it lines right up with something like "brain fog." Maybe it does - maybe it is brain fog. But the brain is still processing - it's just not trying to interrupt someone else's input, unless it's particularly meaningful.
The first, is a reflective and analytical mode. It's dominated by dialogue either in my head, or at times (although more infrequently) out loud. This dialogue is mostly examination of current circumstances, situations - hypothetical situations, or ideas, theories and the like. I think it's honestly the least fruitful of all the modes. When I use it to try to solve problems, it doesn't seem all that helpful. It seems like it's use has more to do with categorizing, filing and refining thoughts than it does any sort of solving.
The second, is an active mode. The dialogue almost entirely shuts off - as it does in my other modes. When I write, or speak, typically my internal dialogue is silent. When I'm playing music for instance, there's no "running dialogue" and if there is analysis going on, it's from a different angle. Not an angle of language or formulaic reason. This mode is much more intuitive, and has more to do with results. I might use this when solving a real physical-world problem at work, or in my music, or with a current situation. It seems especially odd to me that when talking, or when writing, my dialogue is 99% silent, and my decision making with regards to what to delete or change in a writing, for instance, seems swayed by some sub-processing that I'm not fully cognizant of. It's based on feeling, or some more esoteric or ephemeral thing. It's not based on some concrete, rational, language-based, rigid system of thought. What's this sub-processing, and where did it come from? Is it naturally occurring, or was it a program that was socialized into me?
The third, is a reactionary mode. I think this is the mode that dominates my psyche when I'm in social situations. This mode primarily just deals with categorizing, sorting and trying to comprehend whatever is going on in the environment. If I'm using it, I have a hard time using the others - which means that I get quiet, even if I don't necessarily want to be. I know, the description I'm giving seems like it lines right up with something like "brain fog." Maybe it does - maybe it is brain fog. But the brain is still processing - it's just not trying to interrupt someone else's input, unless it's particularly meaningful.
