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"actual thought" "gut reaction" etc are artificial categories and are nothing like the real processes of human cognition. these are myths you are using to reaso
by leashless 3y ago
"actual thought" "gut reaction" etc are artificial categories and are nothing like the real processes of human cognition. these are myths you are using to reason about reason. It's nonsense.
- ben_w 3y agoHow do you reason about reason? Would you rather I'd called those "system 2 and 1" or something? Or do you just find that none of the existing literature about human cognition matches your experience of yourself?
- leashless 3y agoNoooooo this is all very very much messier and more complicated than it seems. The heart pumps. The heart is not a pump. There is neural tissue all over the place, hormones by glands which affect decision making and so on. You will not easily categorise kinds of thinking in any objectively measurable way. Type One thinking may have 72 subtypes once we get good brain imaging technology. They may decide the original category was wrong And So On. You cannot use those concepts, like type one thinking, except as heuristics. They are not true like “the sun is mostly hydrogen” is true.