Japanese
Motor-Sensory
To represent a subject is to represent a form.
(For example, to represent a mathematical subject is to represent a mathematical form.)
And what is done in "representation" is :
- making a physical appearance as a representation of a form, and
- Implying a form by using it.
Here I use the expression "implying" because a form is not such a thing as we can present by itself.
By the way, any representation of a form is arbitrary, that is, one of those which we may choose. Teaching/learning material which is acceptable as a representation of a subject is not unique.
We picture a form as "phase of an object which is changing".
In general, understanding a subject holds in the form of "understanding a context of an object". And a "context" of an object is a transition of phase of the object. We understand a subject through dynamic phase of an object. It is wrong to regard concept, or thought, to be static.
- In particular, we can say that concept, or thought, is spatial.
In this way, to representing a subject is to develop a fantasy which is motor-sensory. Elements of fantasy are those which are sensed. (And here comes multimedia.)
- I use the expression of "fantasy" in the meaning of "a world which is realistic, though not physical".