How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking?
Your mind hides most of your thinking so you can get on with life. Furthermore, you’re too close to yourself. You can’t see the models you use to perceive the world because you’re seeing with them.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"There is no one way the mind works, because the mind is not one thing. Instead, the mind has parts, and the different parts of the mind operate in different ways: Seeing a color works differently than planning a vacation, which works differently than understanding a sentence, moving a limb, remembering a fact, or feeling an emotion.” Trying to squ... See more
Gary Marcus • Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
When we are capable of self-awareness, it’s usually for very brief periods of time: the ‘window of consciousness’, during which we can hold a thought or work out a problem, tends to be open on average for roughly seven seconds. What neuroscientists (and it must be said, most contemporary philosophers) almost never notice, however, is that the great
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Part of thinking effectively is knowing, at one level, the likelihood that we might not be thinking well and so proceeding with humility and an appreciation of our mind’s characteristic tricks: this mind may be tired but unaware that it is so; it may be under the sway of emotion but certain it is calm; it may be judging a situation in the present a
... See moreThe School of Life • How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)
