Mike Carruthers

So what exactly is visual intelligence?

That's probably the best place to start.

What is it you're talking about when you talk of visual intelligence?

So let's start with one of your premises there that people see the same thing differently, that you and I could look at the same thing and we see something differently.

It doesn't feel that way.

You know, if we look at an apple on the table, we're both just looking at an apple on the table.

There's no difference.

So how do you hone your visual intelligence and see things differently than the way you see them now?

Well, if you and I are looking at the Mona Lisa, how is it going to be all that different?

How's mine going to be any different than yours?

I mean, not completely the same, but it seems like it's going to sound pretty much the same.

You have done a really good job of explaining your point.

So you would look at the Mona Lisa in one way and I would look at it in another and we would describe the scene differently.

And so what?

And so what do we do with this?

What's the big so what here?

So taking it out of art and politics just in everyday life, why is this important?

But how do you do it other than to say, oh wait, I heard Amy talk and now I've got to look at this thing real closely because I don't want to look at it the way everybody else does?

Yeah.

Well, and God bless them for doing that.