- Reactions to a YouTube video introducing [Visual Thinker’s Brain
nishio “thinking” and “[transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity)” Many people do not distinguish between “thinking” and “transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity)“. If you are just “thinking,” there is no need to communicate to others, so there is no need to verbalize it. For example, solving a puzzle, making a pot, or metalworking, “good thinking” is an efficient way to solve “the problem you want to solve. Language is needed to communicate it to others.
nishio For example, if you read Jiro Kawakita’s series of works on the KJ method, you will see that the “spatial arrangement” of labels allows us to express information that has not yet been verbalized. For example, you can see in Jiro Kawakita’s series of works on the KJ method that he expression information that has not yet been verbalized by “spatial arrangement” of labels, draws pictures instead of words on the labels, adds arrows or enclosures to spatially arranged objects, or draws pictures on them.
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