Drawing, Knowledge, and Intuitive Thinking

Publisher Summary This chapter takes a look the possibility of solving problems in a more intellectual or calculating way, by analyzing the problem, dividing it into smaller problems, solving each at a time, and then to trying to coordinate them. However, this method is doubted because its difficulties increase in proportion to the degree of complexity. The conventional methods have obvious advantages, so they are continued to be employed. However, people have now started to explore the possibility of employing intuitive thinking to solve problems. Intuition is a mental system that tells us how to act. It is older than analytic and causal thinking. There are two modes of thinking; one logical/verbal, which is referred to be the scientist's way, and one intuitive/wordless, which is consequently called the artist's way. Drawing can also be a way to get in contact with silent or wordless knowledge connected to experience and a profound value system, and thus start a mental process capable of handling complex problems without a definite solution. In other words, drawing uses another kind of thinking than the logical/verbal. It uses visual/intuitive thinking.