*Translated from Polish by Peter Brindell (Malmo, Sweden)

In this article, we show how the thinking of a welder differs from the work of a computer.  A welder builds his picture of the world based on image models and models of physical processes, inherited in the course of evolution and gained through education and experience in a particular cultural environment. When working physically and practicing sports, we receive information from the kinaesthetic sense and process it at the unconscious level. The models that the human race acquired as a result of the struggle to survive are often contrary to the way physical processes really are. The fact that they are situated in the unconscious means that they are difficult to change and for this reason many people may be unskilled for welding. Based on almost 100 years of psychophysics, the findings of cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology methods, we describe how to teach coordination of movements and observation, in TIG and MIG welding, as employed in the breakthrough Polish TKS method.

At the Institute for Joining Metals in Krakow, we research the use of such algorithms for control over intelligent industrial welding tasks.  Treatment of genetic addictions (the term “treatment” was employed, because psychologists like seeing themselves as the doctors of human souls) allows for more efficient welders’ training.  Biological psychology methods also enable us to determine the quality of welding, within a given standard, on the bases of welders’ motivation. This is based on the assumption that a natural tendency for all mammals is to get maximum satisfaction with minimum effort.

This  article,  providing  a  basis  of  comparison  for  the information processing mechanism by the human beings and computer, has proven that the human thinking and the coded processes of daily life influence the coordination of movement and observation. Working out methods of changing the imaginations and introducing new models of physical phenomena into the unconsciousness accelerates the training in the area of coordination movement with observation.

 We have provided only the summary of this recent study. 

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Marty Baker, Editor
The World of Welding
Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
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