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
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.