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THE SENSES AND THINKING
"There was something formless and perfect (= the nature)
before the universe (= our partly schooled picture of the world) was born."
The 2000 years old Chinese classic Tao-te-ching
The human ability to think was created by the natural evolution in a nature environment where people lived a life that is natural for human beings.
If the senses and the thinking of human beings form a whole, like is very probable from the point of view of natural selection,
(Why would a human being form a whole if one thinks from the point of view of the natural selection? The natural selection optimised also the wholes: it optimised everything that matters in practise. It optimised in the sense that from those building blocks that exist there is no other better option.)
Then natural sensory stimuli support the ability to think - to think all kinds of things, also abstract ones.
In the natural living environment of humans there was all the time natural sensory perceptions of natural shapes, structures, colours and regularities, so that is what human thinking is adapted to.
LESS NATURAL STIMULI BRINGS LESS INTELLIGENCE
"The world is formed from the void,
like utensils from a block of wood.
The Master knows the utensils,
yet keeps to the block:
thus she can use all things."
The 2000 years old Chinese classic Tao-te-ching
If human in a natural environment is adapted to the situation that the sensory perceptions support thinking, then the town environment with too few and too block like sensory perceptions probably disturbs thinking and makes thinking's structure like the environment: too block like and linguistic. Landscape like holistic view and sense of naturality, maybe also the sense of balance are emphasized too little!
As a helping aid to this would be the following:
* RECREATION IN NATURE
* NATURE LANDSCAPES
* NATURE PICTURES on walls
* PLANTS, PARKS and so on
* VALUING NATURAL SENSORY STIMULUS
The ways that people notice things are based on the natural ways of perception.
One should also protect untouched nature and wildlife.
(I have a somewhat poor memory, so the healthy natural sensed models are unusually important to me. As far as I know they are important also to others but it isn't so easy to notice: one must pay attention to the average sensory stimuli to understand into which direction the sensed models affect thinking, but one should aim at emphasising mainly, almost solely the sensory perceptions of nature.)
ONE WAY HOW NATURAL SENSORY STIMULUS SUPPORTS THINKING
"The master sees things as they are."
The 2000 years old Chinese classic Tao-te-ching
Use a way of looking, which covers the whole landscape with the focus of the eyes gliding over the surface following its regularities. The landscape corresponds to a holistic view and the gliding of the focus to logical deduction. Technical thinking corresponds very slow movement of a very small focus, scientifical a little bit faster and wider focus. Just picture the thing in question in your mind as one single picture, holistic view, with the accuracy that you know it for sure. (There might be mist somewhere obstructing your sense of sight, or you might need to use your imagination to get the whole landscape to one picture since it isn't all in sight at the same time - just such instinctual landscape is what I refer to: it is very objective and practical: the way that you know your environment without looking, such is a holistic view of the environment.)