Posted by janis on March 27, 2001 at 22:30:41:
In Reply to: Re: Visual Types for ^(oo)^ posted by isaactheblue on March 27, 2001 at 16:36:11:
i usually have visual abtractions in my mind for a lot of different things. for example, i'm facsinated with nature. i get totally awed by how beautiful and complex it is. but often, i find the scientific explanations for it all are kinda boring and unappealing. (sorry fives) like when you analyse poems in english class. in my mind, i know that the scientific base to everything is mind-boggling and fascinating. i understand where scientists are coming from. its just that in my heart, where i live most of the time, i feel nothing but coldness when faced with atoms, and stuff. i prefer to explain things my own way, in a sort of fantastical impossible way, and then i feel the awe, more directly, it seems alive, passionate, and not cold and clinical. i recently put my image of a "the inner workings of a dewdrop" into actual form as one of my art projects. does anyone else do this sort of thing... the people in my class seemed to really like the end result, but it was like i was speaking a foreign language trying to explain where it came from. "i just see it in my mind" did not seem to really make sense to them... hope i am not breaking into too much fourishness here... maybe fives would be interested in my point of view??
not to say that science is cold and clinical or that everyone experiences it that way. i know people who are very passionate and fascinated with science. it just happens that i personally have not (yet) found a way to appreciate science, except at the "larger picture, idea level" ... i mean, the ideas in physics are facsinating to me, but i don't want to know all the details...
janis