Description:
Thinking in Images: Sai Yin ·ɡ·Xi vs π s and wé i
Reflections on solving problems with intuitive images and representations. Its characteristic is concrete visualization. According to the development level, it can be divided into three forms: (1) The thinking of preschool children (three to six or seven years old) only reflects the general things in the same kind of things, not the essential characteristics of things. (2) Adults process the thinking of representation on the basis of contacting a large number of things. ③ Also called "artistic thinking". A process in which writers and artists analyze, synthesize, abstract and generalize a large number of images to form typical images in their creative process.
Thinking in images refers to the artist's discovery and experience of life, artistic conception, artistic image and its materialization in his creative activities.
A main way of thinking adopted in the whole process of artistic image or artistic conception.
What is thinking in images? Simply put, "thinking in images is thinking that can be understood through conscious understanding of image materials." From the perspective of information processing, it can be understood as subject processing (analysis, comparison, integration, transformation, etc. The related image information of the research object and the image information stored in the brain by means of representation, intuition and imagination, so as to understand and grasp the essence and law of the research object from the images.
Imagery thinking and abstract (logical) thinking are two basic forms of thinking. In the past, people divided them into different categories and thought that "... scientists think with concepts and artists think with images." This is a misunderstanding. In fact, thinking in images is not only the thinking of artists, but also an important thinking form for scientists to make scientific discoveries and creations. For example, all image models in physics, such as Thomson jujube cake model of electric power lines, magnetic lines and atomic structure or Rutherford small solar system model, are the products of the combination of abstract thinking and image thinking of physicists. Einstein was a master with profound logical thinking ability, but he opposed logical method as the only scientific method. He is very good at exerting the free creativity of thinking in images, and all kinds of idealized experiments he conceived are typical examples of using thinking in images. These idealized experiments are not abstracting concrete cases, abandoning phenomena and extracting essence, but retaining universal and essential phenomena through image thinking and concentrating and strengthening them. For example, Einstein's famous general theory of relativity actually stems from a free imagination. One day, Einstein was sitting in a chair in the Berne Patent Office, and it suddenly occurred to him that if a person fell freely, he would not feel his own weight. Einstein said that this simple ideal experiment "deeply influenced me and led me to the theory of universal gravitation".
The basic characteristics of thinking in images are:
(A) Image
Image is the most basic feature of thinking in images. The object of thinking in images is the image of things, and the form of thinking is vivid concepts such as image, intuition and imagination. The tools and means of expression are graphics, images, schemas and vivid symbols that can be perceived by the senses. The visualization of thinking in images makes it vivid, intuitive and holistic.
illogic
Unlike abstract (logical) thinking, thinking in images processes information step by step, end to end and linearly. Instead, you can call many image materials to form a new image at once, or jump from one image to another. Its information processing process is not a series of processing, but a parallel processing, which is flat or three-dimensional. It can make the thinking subject grasp the problem quickly as a whole. Thinking in images is probable or specious thinking, and the result of thinking needs logical proof or practical test.
(3) Roughness
The reflection of thinking in images is a thick line, the grasp of the problem is a rough grasp, and the analysis of the problem is qualitative or semi-quantitative. Therefore, thinking in images is usually used for qualitative analysis of problems. Abstract thinking can give an accurate quantitative relationship, so in practical thinking activities, it is often necessary to skillfully combine abstract thinking with image thinking and use them cooperatively.
(4) Imagination
Imagination is a process in which the thinking subject uses the existing image to form a new image. Image thinking is not satisfied with the reproduction of the existing image, but is more committed to the pursuit of processing the existing image and obtaining the output of new image products. Therefore, visualization gives creative advantages to thinking in images. This also illustrates a truth; Creative people usually have a strong imagination.