Feels like HN comment sections are like seeing all the thoughts a brain can come up with on a subject written out in parallel, including the dead-ends and false

Feels like HN comment sections are like seeing all the thoughts a brain can come up with on a subject written out in parallel, including the dead-ends and false-starts and "on second thought"s. Normally a person only continues thinking the resulting two or three most compelling thoughts, and only says one of them out loud, but on here you get to see the whole process.