I had a similar thought: chess doesn't teach you to clarify thoughts, cut through to the central points, and reason clearly about things that may at first seem

I had a similar thought: chess doesn't teach you to clarify thoughts, cut through to the central points, and reason clearly about things that may at first seem 'fuzzy'. These are the things I associate with 'good thinking', and are much of what philosophers do (morality, free will, consciousness, truth, etc). See also the Hierarchy of Disagreement, and old HackerNews favourite - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_disagreement https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_disagreement