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To: d:oug who wrote (83447)	3/19/2002 6:41:30 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 117095

no need to be a warrior. never felt the need to be one then or now. we are all warriors anyway. as emily dickenson observed, "far braver he that charges the cavalry of woe inside than faces the enemy without". at least it's a paraphrase of e.d.'s poem. concerning experience: to quote lincoln slightly, "the highly structured contingencies formed in the past are rarely sufficient to deal with the stormy present." in other words, theory or parallel does not equate to practice or train for it necessarily. this goes towards the weakness of hypothesis in that it is only as strong as the empathy and thoroughness of the hypothesizer. It would be a mistake however to say that hypothesis is useless. god gave one a brain to tell us that once the hot stove is figured out, other red hot things are to be given concomitant respect. if you want to learn to type you must actually try to type such that one does not hunt and peck. surprisingly, this is not done by thinking about it, but by doing it. of our perception of where the memory storage of the keys of the keyboard is, we find by the act of typing itself, that this storage map appears to be in our fingers, not in our head. looking at our fingers is therefore not only superfluous but interfering, as it engages a circuit of of thinking that is not connected to this map. looking is not feeling. of course, the map is in our head, but we cannot access it except by typing. if one tries to insert a map into the head, it will fail. so you try to let your fingers think. this also explains why spelling is different when typing than when writing longhand, where we look a the formation of the script, and why writers are much more creative when typing than when word processing on a computer, or writing by hand. each word skill is stored in a different area of the brain and has a different database of words and ideas. some office managers have observed that those who appear to be less learned are the better the typist. (the reason for this is that typing does not yield to analysis procedures, nor is it mapped by any ideatic or pictoral geometric area maps of memory, being an autonomic skill. it is a misapplication of the analytical skill to try to think out the positions of the keys, and thus analysis or thinking interferes with success at the art of typing.) women are always better. this not because they are less learned per se, but because their small motor skills are more developed. never try to outknit or out penny-sort a women, nor try to enter data faster than she. unless your sexual nature has been misgiven, at least in that department :), she will beat you hollow. EC<:-}