I heard that our minds work with images, not words.
But that can’t be true either.
Just now I went through a complex logical thought process to decide on an action with consideration of at least two possible outcomes, and I swear it took a fraction of a second, and involved neither words, nor images.
Somehow I was able to calculate two separate algorithms and make forecasts for two separate outcomes and make a choice with neither words nor pictures.
It was something else entirely.
A millisecond.
@Vonzales Interesting.
It happened so quickly you didn't have a long-enough time to recognize words or pictures?
Sounds as if you were 'in the moment.'
@GeorgeG
They were familiar situations from past experience
@Vonzales When we practice something the 'chain of events' becomes more likely to happen the next time we are in that situation, right?
The response becomes more conditioned, more strong, and less dependent upon cause-and-effect reasoning, right? (More visceral and less cerebral.)
These two outcomes you mention -- were they situations you have been in (repeatedly) before, or were they novel?