Thinking
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Thinking
It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.
-Napoleon
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. - Schopenhauer
the brain is commonly regarded as a thinking machine, but it’s more often the opposite: a machine that tries to circumvent thinking. This is because cognition costs time and calories, which in our evolutionary history were scant resources.
We need more vocabulary around the experience of thinking, as in:
-thinking qua “directing my inner monologue along certain pathways”
- thinking qua “no words, just feeling the thought-shapes moving & finding how they want to fit together”
- thinking qua “staying... See more
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