Today’s episode explores the historical shift in psycholinguistics away from gestalt processing toward rigid, analytic models of the human mind. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, argues that this transition was not accidental but rather a political choice designed to favor institutional control and measurable metrics over intuitive understanding. Using personal experience, Dr. Hoerricks describes pattern recognition as a primary way of knowing where conclusions arrive as a complete whole rather than a series of logical steps. This holistic perspective is portrayed as an ancient cognitive style that often feels incompatible with modern, fragmented expectations of proper reasoning. Ultimately, she suggests that the current focus on behavioral management suppresses a deeper, more natural way of perceiving the world through felt coherence.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-day-psycholinguistics-let-gestalt
Let me know what you think.
