I want to think quickly. I want to be able to read books as fast as I can while comprehending everything. How do I learn to do this? Well, I need to train my brain to process information more quickly. This is tricky because there are many different types of information. To understand information, I need to develop a practical model to understand how information is processed.
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The simplest type of information comes from direct sensation. We see an object and then we identify it with a term. Nouns are the easiest to categorize. Action verbs come next. We observe actions performed by and on objects so we develop terms for them. This requires prerequisite nouns. Adjectives, intransitive verbs, helping verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions all follow from this.
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The words that come from direct sensation combine to form ideas. Ideas require subjects and predicates like a regular sentence. Ideas reveal additional information about a certain term. There's the term 'dog'. There's the idea 'the dog is outside'. Simple enough. Ideas often convey why certain terms are important. While there are often very few words to describe a specific object, there are many words one can use to convey an idea.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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