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Wed 2005-05-11 10:26
Thoughts on thoughts
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[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.comWed 2005-05-11 11:42
Oh, I'm glad it's not just me. (There was no reason why it should be!)

Do you ever get, when you change what you're working on or what technique you use, little bits of oddness that feel like a ship creaking when it turns around something? Forgetting something of a kind you normally wouldn't forget, or not being able to do a certain task automatically for a while?
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[personal profile] simontWed 2005-05-11 12:17
I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Certainly I find that if I try to do something I used to be able to do automatically but haven't done in a while, it feels unfamiliar until it comes back to me, but I'm not sure I'd describe that as "oddness": it seems obviously natural that things should work that way. I therefore suspect I'm not thinking of the same thing you are.
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[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.comWed 2005-05-11 13:13
I mean when you learn something completely new. Do it and see if you get weird things happening with the rest of your brain. (If you have time!)
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[personal profile] simontWed 2005-05-11 13:19
Hmm. When I learned to play Solo recently I suddenly found it really odd to look at a (say) seven-digit number which had a repeated digit; I'd got so used to ensuring that never happened that I felt a subtle wrongness if I caught sight of, say, a catalogue number on some packaging. Is that the sort of thing, or are you thinking of glitches that have no obvious relation to the new thing being learned?
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[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.comWed 2005-05-11 13:58
Things that have no obvious relation to the new thing, sort of.
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