Larry Barsalou - Habits of Mind
Mind & Life
The Importance of Affordances
In a simulation, you mentally transport yourself into a situation. You essentially have the affordances that would normally be present as if you were actually there. These strategies are notoriously difficult to implement and and often fail. And it's usually because of the reason you said, that you get so caught up in these simulations that you forget to apply them. But itsit's just basically the strength of your old habits takes over.
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