sam-ghandchi Kurzweil's Mind-Making, My Blind Thinking, and Euclid's Achievement

Benjamin Wardhaugh: Encounters with Euclid

Sam Ghandchi

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ذهن سازی کرزوایل، تفکر نابینای من، و دستاورد اقلیدس

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PS 08/02/24: My thanks to Lifeboat Blog where I just read a new article by Yasemin Saplakoglu entitled "What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images," originally published in the 'quantamagazine.org"! I now understand that my condition of "lacking the mind's eye" is not a disorder and has been known for 140 years, although only since 2015 it is called aphantasia by the neuroscientists! I still think my article below maybe useful for further study especially my references to the neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) research in this regard! SG

 

PS 07/09/24: If it were not clear in the text, I should add that despite the fact that I am not blind and am basically cerebral, but in my head I am totally blind although in my head I can recognize things when I see the same thing or its picture again (visual memory), hear the melodies (auditory) with or without listening to the music again, and surely remember the feelings associated with them (kinesthetics). Also, unconsciously for the same thing, I give precedence to what I have seen in the written words and not what I have heard although I do not really "see" the words in my head. SG

 

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Nine years ago in 2012, Ray Kurzweil published a book entitled 'How to Create a Mind.' At the time I published a review of that book under the heading of 'Kurzweil's PRTM Next Step in AI.' In my review I discussed Ray's PRTM theory and also talked about Richard Bandler and John Grinder's Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) theory. Using the NLP model, let me note that basically I am cerebral and blind when I think! In other words, if I close my eyes, I can remember auditory and kinesthetic experiences, but I cannot see images in my head at all! Yesterday I was reading an interesting book by Benjamin Wardhaugh entitled 'Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World.' Wardhaugh, in his historical presentation of Euclid's Elements of Geometry, notes Isaac Newton's perspective of Descartes' analytic geometry as an algebraic presentation of Euclid's geometry, which is true. In other words, Euclid's work is a verbal presentation of geometrical shapes and relations as if we are using a human language to depict images!

 

Hoping for a democratic and secular futurist republic in Iran,

 

Sam Ghandchi
IRANSCOPE

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October 16, 2021

 


 


 


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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