Methods for visualizing ideas
I’ve explored some aspects on how ideas are formed within the mind, and how we can improve upon this creative process. Part of it was emphasizing the importance of visualizing your ideas to encourage their growth. This blog will focus on some methods we can use to visualize our ideas. I hereby declare war on limitations! Our own limitations of imaginative thinking is the number one cause of death in the whole world![citation needed] The sentence above was meant to sarcastically humiliate the American government. Imaginational awareness Imagination could be described as an algorithm inside your mind used for creating new ideas based on your current knowledge, expertise and experience. This is the very essence behind growing ideas into idea fractals, we should...
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A fractal is described by Wikipedia as “A rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole.” I have in a prior blog used the term Idea Fractal to describe a unity of ideas resulting in a larger idea. This unity of ideas forming a larger idea has an isomorphic relationship to the geometrical fractal which I will talk about in this blog. I do however suspect that many people will not understand my use of the term “isomorphism” in this context, I will therefor start by explaining it. The term is explained in the book GEB (Gödel, Escher, Bach – An Eternal Golden Braid). An isomorphic relation is in this context a relation of similarity between two...
Read MoreThe importance of visualization
I wrote about ideas in a prior blog, arguing that more significant ideas are formed when your mind finds synergies between your less significant ideas in an on going fractal motion. The basic idea was that we could boost our creative process by nurturing our less significant ideas even if they seem obvious or meaningless. This blog may be viewed as a follow-up blog concerning the subject of ideas. Let’s in this context define the concept “Idea Fractal” as a pattern connecting any number of ideas into a more significant whole. I would advice anyone reading this to read my prior blog and to have an basic understanding about fractal geometry and the isomorphism between fractal geometry and most things imaginable. Imagine one of these idea fractals...
Read MoreEncouraging the formation of new ideas
The human brain is a marvelous computation device, it enables us to form ideas based on our surroundings, our knowledge, our memories and our beliefs (which in it self of course is a set of ideas). Let’s call these factors on which ideas are based as information flow. I did in a prior blog explain the conscious and the subconscious as different sets of algorithms used to access and process the information flow within the human mind, I’m going to further elaborate on this in a new direction trying to explain the generation of ideas. Everyone can relate to the sensation of having an idea, it can be a small one or a big one. It may concern the very present or the distant future, it may concern your self or humanity as a whole. Many ideas are thrown away...
Read MoreFear
There are several destructive forces within us which we need to conquer. Bad self-esteem is one of them, spiting one self is another. I’d argue that the most destructive force of them all is fear, this primal drive that supposedly is meant to save us from harm. How does it fit in into todays advanced and comfortable society? Fear sure is interesting, it hinders us from subjecting our selves to dangerous situations like climbing mountains, going to war or driving too fast. But wait a minute, people do those things all the time right? People are so obsessed with this emotion of fear that they can get obsessed with conquering it, like with a drug they get addicted to subjecting them selves to more and more dangerous situations just to feel the thrill of...
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