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Writing is not necessary for thinking. You can learn to think without writing. I've never had a brilliant thought while writing. In fact, I've done a lot more
by spongebobstoes 2y ago
Writing is not necessary for thinking. You can learn to think without writing. I've never had a brilliant thought while writing.
In fact, I've done a lot more thinking and had a lot more insights from talking than from writing.
Writing can be a useful tool to help with rigorous thinking. In my opinion, is mostly about augmenting the author's effective memory to be larger and more precise.
I'm sure the same effect could be achieved by having AI transcribe a conversation.
- Unearned5161 2y agoI'm not settled on transcribed conversation being an adequate substitute for writing, but maybe it's better than nothing. There's something irreplaceable about the absoluteness of words on paper and the decisions one has to do to write them out. Conversational speak is, almost by definition, more relaxed and casual. The bar is lower and as such, the bar for thoughts is lower, in order of ease of handwaving I think it goes: mental, speech, writing. Furthermore there's the concept of editing which I'm unsure how it could be carried out in a conversational sense in graceful manner. Being able to revise words, delete, move around, can't be done with conversation unless you count "forget I said that, it's actually more like this..." as suitable.