![]() Yes, I play them all, even the cake-making game. I’ve been playing this collection of children’s games that are included with Windows Vista, Purple Place. More and more as I recover cognitive functioning, I find that I can produce a correct answer to a question or provide a correct solution to a puzzle, without easily being able to explain how I arrived at the thing. “Understanding” may not even be the right word. I am having a problem with understanding. We may have the skills to walk it through step by step in order to recognize an error, but the brain says, “Hey, I recognize this pattern I’ve already made the call on this so I don’t have to go through those steps anymore.” I’m reminded of Gestalt theory, but maybe there is something more on the nose? Here’s what I wrote in an offline notebook on September 26 about playing the game: I wonder whether this type of thing is part of the reason why it can be difficult to change a certain pattern of thinking. So I’m left with the sense of knowing the right choice without knowing how I know it. I’ve discovered that once I recognize a pattern, I find it more difficult to walk through the steps that helped me recognize that pattern. I’ve played this game several times a day for the past couple months. I’ve been playing a deductive reasoning game aimed at children as brain stimulation and to gauge my mental acuity (if my game play goes downhill, I know I’m tired).
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