Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

by Temple Grandin

adults learn one or two new words every two days until middle age,

my visual vocabulary continues to grow, adding new information all the time.

Masuda gave his employees all the information about the tsunami and damage to the station. This helped reduce anxiety, because when people have knowledge, they are empowered to act.

Masuda also gave his employees a clear, easily understood goal of achieving cold shutdown.

I will put my faith in the person on the ground any day.

2015, Google introduced DeepDream, a computer vision program that used AI algorithms to generate and enhance images by detecting patterns.

If the program is trained with garbage, it will create garbage. I now emphasize to my students the importance of learning how to look up original sources of information.

I feel, therefore I am.

They may not have words to tell us about their feelings, but I believe animals have consciousness. They are visual thinkers.

we need to make room for our visual thinkers and their remarkable gifts.

Descartes, R. Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies. Translated