However, I think that the way our minds represent data is important; consider the example of expanding a circle, we focus in on the radius increasing; or consider the case of a square, when translating it mentally we treat it as if it were a point, when compressing / expanding it we treat it like a set of four numbers corresponding to side lengths; etc . The point is that the representation / focus we use has a tendency to be naturally suited to the task at hand; obviously, this is because we have a visual system, but, the underlying representations should be capable of abstraction ( I love wishful thinking . . . : ) talk ) 12 : 00, 2 March 2009 ( UTC)
