This is http://www.essayz.com/a8903182.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %LINEAR THINK LANGUAGE WRITING NEUROLOGICAL WEB 890318 Linear thinking is characterized by long chains which must be followed without connections to anything else until you get to the end of each chain. At the end of each chain there may be no essential connection to anything else. Linear language promotes linear thinking. Linear writing reflects linear thinking through the use of linear language. Not all communication is linear in character. Visual images, body language, affection, dance, music, etc. are not linear communications. Creative insights entail a neurological web of inter- connections in which most every neuron is connected to other neurons in significant ways. In creative perceptions relationships between insights about significant relationships are not fully characterized by long linear chains of elementary things, words, or entities of any kind. Creative insights cannot be encompassed by linear thinking, language or writing; creative insights cannot be contained by them. Sharing creative insights requires modes of communication which are not dominated by linear chains with links only rarely interconnected. Long chains are not like the webs of relationships which are central to creative insights. The webs of relationships which are central to creative insights cannot be characterized by long chains of any kind; such long chains lack the essential inter-connections which are characteristic of creative insights. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================