Immediate Mental Direction
• John Vandivier
This article is a long-winded attempt to describe a very elusive sort of mental activity which I think exists, as part of a larger description of human behavior which may eventually support an agent based model or an analytical framework.
There are a few straightforward kinds of conscious mental action which may be numerated as follows:
- Notice/Observe/Capture a portion of a stream of perceivable information.
- Calculate/Consider/Evaluate captured information. This includes asking, answering and comparing.
- Judge/Select/Prefer/Choose/Rank/Compare/Prioritize
- Direct/Try/Exert Effort/Will/Focus