Musings about non-linguistic solutions to scientific problems. - Pawel Szczesny

Nice post! I found it very interesting for several reasons. One was that I don't think particularly verbally when I'm doing research. Not visually either. Instead, it's a mishmash of spatial, kinesthetic, visual and linguistic; very, very hard to describe. In any case, I don't think I fit your description. I suspect a lot of theoretical physicists don't. - Michael Nielsen

Michael, all theoretical physicists I "know" are either online or dead, so I've decided to put everybody into the same bag, since I didn't have enough data to speculate about branches of sciences. However I suspected that mathematicians and theroretical physicists may not fit very well my description. Personally, I find myself thinking verbally and in linear fashion, so I try to get rid of that. Should I become a theoretical physicists? :) - Pawel Szczesny

BTW, I got very interesting comment from Steve Grand, AI researcher. Quote: "The thing is, all creative thinkers use some kind of analogy. At the artistic end of the scale these analogies tend to be loose, suggestive metaphors. At the scientific end of the scale we build mathematical models. But in between come many shades of analogy, some more concrete and some metaphorical; some symbolic and some more touchy-feely." - Pawel Szczesny