There’s a lot I could write about this topic, but none of it would add anything of help to anyone who has yet to make their first steps in what you call “real thinking”. So I’d like to add the following:
My single most powerful practice for developing “real thinking” has been to take any concept that my mental map only has low resolution symbols for, and sit down and reflect on it.
I will refrain from trying to convince you, the reader of this comment, to actually try it out. The time it would take you to read the pages it would take me to make a comprehensive case (any attempt in that direction ends with at least as much writing as the post above) is far longer than the few minutes you could just sit down and try it out. But I’ll leave a link to an anectode that even after a year still cracks me up (Original Seeing / Naturalism is related to this post, btw, and worth digging into): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CDzAwDxK2GnxBpu7h/?commentId=LrfmarA7zJACmWDNh
There’s a lot I could write about this topic, but none of it would add anything of help to anyone who has yet to make their first steps in what you call “real thinking”. So I’d like to add the following:
My single most powerful practice for developing “real thinking” has been to take any concept that my mental map only has low resolution symbols for, and sit down and reflect on it.
I will refrain from trying to convince you, the reader of this comment, to actually try it out. The time it would take you to read the pages it would take me to make a comprehensive case (any attempt in that direction ends with at least as much writing as the post above) is far longer than the few minutes you could just sit down and try it out. But I’ll leave a link to an anectode that even after a year still cracks me up (Original Seeing / Naturalism is related to this post, btw, and worth digging into): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CDzAwDxK2GnxBpu7h/?commentId=LrfmarA7zJACmWDNh