Mind in Motion

Then we’ll need qualities of forms: center, periphery, symmetry, synchrony, repetition, pattern.

That same distortion, finer discrimination for things that are close to us than for things that are far, occurs for judgments of people on social dimensions. People judge members of their own social group, a close group, to be more different from each other than members of other social groups,

Structure is an arrangement of parts. Dynamics is a causal sequence of actions. Structure is space; dynamics, time.

spatial thinking is the foundation for abstract thought.

“Do you know the crazy shape of the crankshaft in a car?” “Yeah, what of it?” “Good. Now, tell me: how did you describe it when you were talking to yourself?” So I learned from Bernie that thoughts can be visual as well as verbal.

Third Law of Cognition: Feeling comes first.

we keep track of the world that was once in view and no longer

Like taxonomies, partonomies allow inferences, but inferences of containment, not of properties.

Seventh Law of Cognition: The mind fills in missing information.