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I appreciated the reexamination of this fundamental topic. (pp. 274-275) Deletion creates distortion, and this is the process of generalization. In the example of “dog” above, all the qualities of different individual dogs are deleted, leaving only the common characteristics of the generic dog that represents the category.
I came to similar conclusions some time ago. However, I would also add another word, amplification. While simple deletion results in distorting what is left, study of the neural nets active in perception clearly show that all of them also amplify certain signals at the same time that they delete others.
In my new book, Transforming Your Self: Becoming who you want to be, I model this process of generalization in considerable detail. (The contents, introduction, two chapters and the Appendix are on this web site.)
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