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Barbara Tversky

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“What do you mean by that? It's again a great question. It's really associations, just the way you'll walk from A to B in a different way than I might walk from A to B for different reasons.”
2020-01-24 · Masters in Business · Barbara Tversky on How the Mind Works · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and our thoughts go from idea to idea along conceptual paths the way our feet go from place to place along spatial paths. And it now turns out that the same brain structures in humans are coding both of them. They're both coding our paths in actual space and our paths in conceptual space.”
2020-01-24 · Masters in Business · Barbara Tversky on How the Mind Works · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a great question, and that's one that people grapple with. And, you know, people want simple answers. It's probably complicated. Let me start first with how we speak. And a lot of the way we speak about thinking is as if they were actions on objects. And I think that that kind of thinking of acting on objects got internalized to think about thoughts as objects. So we raise ideas, we push them forward, we tear them apart. All of those are the ways we talk about thinking. And there is if we were having actual objects and doing it. I think that's metaphoric. I think we have no other way of talking about thinking except as if we're actions. Those are things we do with our hands, with our feet we go from place.”
2020-01-24 · Masters in Business · Barbara Tversky on How the Mind Works · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because babies don't talk, it takes them a while to talk, and even when they talk, everything sounds like ba, bas, banana, bottle, and they aren't saying very deep things for a long time. So they do very intelligent things. Animals do very intelligent things without speech. So it felt to me that if anything, the spatial visual world preceded evolutionarily and in development and had a richness of its own, and that needed to be explored independent of language?”
2020-01-24 · Masters in Business · Barbara Tversky on How the Mind Works · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, proposition is in philosophy is a minimal statement, like the cup is round, or the desk is flat. There are minimal statements where you attribute something to something else. And it felt to me like you could never begin to describe faces that way were very bad at describing faces, emotions are difficult to describe, fairly easy to detect, spaces that were in are hard to describe. So thinking about reducing that to propositions to these simple minimal statements didn't make sense to me. It made sense to me that the spatial world and the visual world had its own logic. And that logic came first evolutionarily.”
2020-01-24 · Masters in Business · Barbara Tversky on How the Mind Works · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm a bit of a contrarian. And when I entered the field, the cognition revolution was well in progress. You could open up the mind if you were clever and find ways of revealing how people thought. But thought at that time was heavily dominated by language, by propositional thinking that came from philosophy and linguistics, and people thought at that time, the way we thought about the spatial world, the visual world, was by putting it into propositional format.”
2020-01-24 · Masters in Business · Barbara Tversky on How the Mind Works · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source