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On Friday 14 March 2003 12:53, Jeffrey T. Read wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:17:36AM +0100, Marco Paga wrote:
> > You didn't got my point. Let's assume that the human mind thinks with
> > objects. So it would be the most natural way to use 3D objects to
> > represent this. When we use objects in Smalltalk these objects come
> > closer to our mind because it is more the way we think then writing bytes
> > in an register.
>
> I think that it is important to not generalize about the way "the human
> mind" thinks.

I'm just qouting Immanuel Kant in easy words. I think he is right. Every 
individual person might think in different ways but the abstraction that lies 
behind all the ways are objects. Thinking in words mean that there objects 
are words and thinking visually means that their visual objects are objects.

> What I have found is that different human minds think
> differently, especially on the higher end of the intelligence spectrum
> where all the good programmers are. Hence, some people think verbally, in
> terms of words; other people think visually, in terms of pictures. From
> this duality arise the perennial CLI-vs.-GUI flamewars on Usenet. Maybe
> with enough Zen meditation we can perceive The Oneness of Everything, and
> thus transcend objects altogether. (I could be wrong, but I think there are
> some really adept LISP hackers who have done this. :))

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Marco Paga, mail at marco-paga.de , http://www.marco-paga.de
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