channels of perception

[perlmonger]

ramtops and I just had a... well, row would be a gross overstatement: a failure of communication, caused by a peculiarity in my mechanisms of perception. The details are unimportant (an iTunes migration issue to her new G5), but I wanted to check what was in a specific directory. She told me, but I still needed to actually see an ls output for the data to register properly in my mind. The upset was that she (understandably!) perceived this as my not trusting what she told me, which I do.

What this highlighted is that I process information I hear very differently from that which I see: I knew what was in that directory, but I - in some way - couldn't process that information in the context of our iTunes configuration problem without visual confirmation.

Left brain / right brain issue, I guess. Or maybe I'm just peculiar.

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[marypcb.livejournal.com]

do you think visually - could you visualise the last place you saw something? Simon doesn't, I do - and it makes a big difference to how you can hold info in your head. Sound streams in and out for me, so I'd probably need to see the list to parse more than one or two things - or be taking notes!