You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Jayson_Virissimo comments on Thinking without words? - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 July 2011 06:25PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (52)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 10 July 2011 05:43:51AM *  1 point [-]

Has anyone developed techniques to do math without symbol manipulation?

Sometimes, when I'm doing certain kinds of calculations in my head, I imagine a clock and mentally manipulate the hands until I can see the "size" of the value I'm trying to reach (only then do I transform this value into a number). Is this similar to what you are talking about?