William comments on The ideas you're not ready to post - Less Wrong

24 Post author: JulianMorrison 19 April 2009 09:23PM

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Comment author: William 20 April 2009 07:57:38AM 3 points [-]

You can force yourself to parse the sentence but I suspect that the part of your brain that you use to parse it is different from the one you use in normal reading and in fact closer to the part of the brain you use to solve a puzzle.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 20 April 2009 08:49:11AM 0 points [-]

I puzzle what goes where, but the bit that holds the parse once I've assembled it feels the same as normal.

Comment author: randallsquared 20 April 2009 09:46:00PM 0 points [-]

The result isn't as important as the process in this case. Even if the result is stored the same way, for the purpose of William's statement it's only necessary that the process is sufficiently different.