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Judgment is not a task to be completed but a capacity to be a certain kind of knower

Alfred North Whitehead was right that cognitive offloading is how we build civilization. We progress by increasing the number of things we can do without having to think about them.

But notice what we offload: arithmetic, memory, navigation—tasks. Judgment is different in kind. Offloading tasks can be civilizational progress. Offloading the capacity... See more