What, precisely, is thinking? When, on the reception of sense impressions, memory pictures emerge, this is not yet thinking. And when such pictures form sequences, each member of which calls forth another, this too is not yet thinking. When, however, a certain picture turns up in many such sequences, then—precisely by such return—it becomes an organizing element for such sequences, in that it connects sequences in themselves unrelated to each other. Such an element becomes a tool, a concept. I think that the transition from free association or dreaming to thinking is characterized by the more or less preeminent role played by the concept.
– Albert Einstein
Visual thinking or picture thinking is the phenomenon of thinking through visual processing – term that is used to refer to the brain’s ability to use and interpret visual information from the world around us. “Deep Visual Thinking” is my humorous take on the idea of visual thinking through “when you” images:
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