Quotes About Conceptualization

Success comes in an emerging set of abstract concepts that make sense of all the detail

philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts" .

who could visualize four-dimensional surfaces in a non-Euclidean geometry

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Consciousness divides Reality. It conceptualises it, packages it, and explains it to itself. Then in our ignorance, we think it's taking readings on things 'out there.

Whenever we conceptualise, we create contradictions that we can't escape.

I]t's not conceptualisation that's the problem, but getting caught up in it, mistaking our concepts for Reality.

The most challenging part of programming is conceptualizing the problem, and many errors in programming are conceptual errors. Because

Where they differ is in the construal of those facts: how the intricate swirl of matter in space ought to be conceptualized by human minds.

language often allows us to express that aspect as a noun, whether or not it is a physical object. For example, when we say I have three reasons for leaving, we are counting reasons as if they were objects (though of course we do not literally think that a reason can sit on a table or be kicked across a room).

the mind is a metaphor-monger

That's the dirty little secret of advanced geometry. It may sound impressive that we can do geometry in ten dimensions (or a hundred, or a million...), but the mental pictures we keep in our mind are two-or at most three-dimensional. That's all our brains can handle. Fortunately, this impoverished vision is usually enough.

What interested me above all was the relationship of these substances to productivity. It has been my experience, however, that creative achievement requires an alert consciousness, and that it diminishes under the spell of drugs. On the other hand, conceptualization is important, and one gains insights under the influence of drugs that indeed are not possible otherwise.

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.

Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The character doesn't really become real to me until I draw them.

Digamos que el mundo es una figura, hay que leerla. Por leerla entendamos generarla.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.