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Keep the Beeps to Yourself.(NEWS)
Byline: DENISE MCCLUGGAGE
I DON'T LIKE BEING BEEPED AT, I grumble at the car I'm driving. It has just beeped at me. I'm backing up, and the car has gone into its approximation-warning mode. Beep-beep. I see nothing beepable in the mirrors, out the windows or in the backup camera. But since both the drive and the car are strange to me, I stop. Ah, I spot a feeble dried stalk at roadside.
Such beeping is as helpful as general nagging. In a car I drove some weeks ago, the beeping came with a graphic on the nav screen and a flashing orange line marking the part of the car at risk.
All of this set me to muse: How does the mind process this beeping into useful information? I recalled my days studying NLP (neurolinguistic programming), investigating how we interpret the world to ourselves. It's through our senses. We see, hear, feel, smell or taste the world. That's VAKO, for visual, auditory, kinesthetic and olfactory (which includes gustatory, because the two are closely related).
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