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[varshax]

I attended a Montessori school for the first few years of my schooling, and while I was always aware that this experience directly contributed to many aspects of my life, now I am beginning to think that I have no idea of the extant to which it made a difference. Yesterday the trainer at the gym rolled out a mat to do some core work and I remarked

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[shortindiangirl]

Wonder if there's more to it than Montessori. I did not go to to Montessori school, but I too have this great need for visualizing and details. This is one reason that I could not continue my education in Physics and had to stop at the Bachelor of Arts level in undergrad. (3 more courses would have made this a B.Sc. Physics as opposed to a B.A. Physics). I needed to visualize dimensions - 5th dimension and onwards. And naturally, this is painful at best and impossible at worst. And the layers upon layers of assumptions that both computational and theoretical Physics is built on did not suit my needs. It seemed to me that the assumptions were self referential, and without a true visualization, I could not verify that it was not. I decided then that my right brained needs to "feel" the Physics overtook my left brained ability to "prove" the Physics

[varshax]

I guess this need for visualization could come from many sources .... methinks mine is less likely to be inherent as I dont have your artistic inclination or education. In those first few years, I probably learnt how to learn - and I still fall back on the tools I picked up then (pictorial cues for example).

Experiencing infinity ..... I have no idea what that is :)

Interestingly enough, I dont find it hard to visualize multiple dimensions .... and that is most likely because of my background in coding theory (Codes are visualised as vector subspaces) so for me that too is a learnt-trait.

Sounds like a very interesting book ...

Experiencing infinity

[shortindiangirl]

I think the education that I sought was probably because of my need to visualize things. Perhaps somehow I too learned how to learn by visualizing, who knows ? Or perhaps my brain is precluded to learning that way because it is unable to process un-visual lists as well

Re: Experiencing infinity

[varshax]

Thats a really interesting experiment .... with very interesting results. Your narrative reminds me of scenes from "That 70s show".
And coding theory is not very complicated ..... there are some involved concepts but those even I dont remember at this point :) My memory is definitely DRAM ... fundas die quickly if they are not refreshed.