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Originally Posted by jason03  I am still not clear what abstract thinking is. I don't buy that abstract thinking is all about making mental images. I have watched intelligent people with high IQ thinking but their eye movements do not suggest that they think in pictures. |
So, what I obviously failed to make clear in my previous post is that I didn't mean a picture literally. I don't have the image of a drawing in my head that shows the structure of the software program. I have the structure of the program in my head and I can read it
like a picture or a construction drawing.
My eyes or vision cortex aren't involved in creating the mental image - it is abstract, after all. But the experience is very close to the experience of sight. You can 'see' how the whole thing holds together, you can 'see' where the problems are, you can 'see' what changes you need to make.
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I think abstract thinking is much more than that. I can't relate to the programmer example. Can u give another example?
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I can try, but it is difficult to put into words, because (for me at least) for the most part it is about thinking without words.
Writing music is an exercise in abstract thinking for me. I don't think in bars and notes and meters, I think in music.