Thinking

luka

luka

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craner said:
Stan's ambition is great, he doesn't just want to say "yeah, thinking is hard" or "thinking about thinking is hard, man" he actually wants to explain thinking.
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Be good if he just answered the question though. Do you think Craner? You don't strike me as a thinking type. You're an anti intellectual like the rest of us at heart.
 
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You have to scroll all the way to the bottom. Its a massive spreadsheet. I maxed out the size, using Numbers on mac, and I might make a new on on Google Sheets, which might be infinite. It needed to be way bigger.
 
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luka said:
Be good if he just answered the question though. Do you think Craner? You don't strike me as a thinking type. You're an anti intellectual like the rest of us at heart.
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There is this joke, I guess its a joke, about a person who is looking for their wristwatch they dropped while walking along a street at night, and they're looking for it under the light of a streetlamp. And a friend comes along and asks them what they're doing, and they say "looking for my wristwatch" and the friend says "and you dropped it under the streetlight?" and they respond, "no, but thats the only place thats lit".
 
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constant escape said:
There is this joke, I guess its a joke, about a person who is looking for their wristwatch they dropped while walking along a street at night, and they're looking for it under the light of a streetlamp. And a friend comes along and asks them what they're doing, and they say "looking for my wristwatch" and the friend says "and you dropped it under the streetlight?" and they respond, "no, but thats the only place thats lit".
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My point is that you are looking for the answer too narrowly within the bounds of the question.
 
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Well I don't claim to have answered it, I just think its the sort of question that predefines the parameters for acceptable answers (perhaps all questions do this), while also aiming at something that cannot be parameterized as such. And I also don't claim to be free of egoistic hangups.

I mean here are some attempts at answering "what is thinking?"

The process by which intelligent systems simulate and predict their spatial and temporal situations.

The process by which a person determines a course of action.
 
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I doubt any previous posters get near that, and thats largely the reason I didn;t bother reading them. The insecurity involved in that line of reasoning is "what if someone in this thread knows more than I do?" which is ultimately low stakes and would require the standard self-reckoning that comes with the territory of egoistic hangups. The trick is just avoiding bad faith, which I don't think I'm completely doing right now.

Similar to that sense of psychedelic superiority that I believe @shiels mentioned.
 
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constant escape said:
silence is unequivocally the best answer - but the second best answer could be some fantastically elaborate reconciliatory approach that requires some smaller knots be tied in order for the bigger ones to be loosened, and much of it borders on psychosis, depending on how we define things. But again, that comes in at second, after silence.
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