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Yeah, I agree with you. I didn't get into it in the article because I was trying to be succinct, but you're right.
by pmichaud 17y ago
Yeah, I agree with you. I didn't get into it in the article because I was trying to be succinct, but you're right.
- h34t 17y agoI think it´s a substantial omission, not worth the value of being ´succinct´. Saying that ¨people who don’t write, are people who don’t think¨ is an insult to anybody who expresses their thought in music, social interaction, design, in-the-flow decision-making, etc. -- a very large number of people who have made major contributions to our world.
- tsally 17y agoYeah, I agree with you. I didn't get into it in the article because I was trying to be succinct, but you're right. It's a solid piece and it's important to be succinct, but I think in this case your succinctness might cause some readers to miss your main point. You might consider replacing "writing" with "the act of creation".
- electromagnetic 17y agoAgreed and I'd wholly agree with the general point of "if you don't create, you don't think". Humans by nature are data processing machines, our entire life is just data. We remember images because we have saved a biological jpeg in our brain, we remember words and sentences because we've got text and audio biologically saved. However it's the act of creating that distinguishes thought from action. When I write, or draw, or create a song I am creating something new. I'm creating data that has in essence never existed before. It's not a hard coded biological function and it's not something everybody does. The act of creating shows our distinction as individuals, and perhaps prove to ourselves and others that we're not just p-zombies faking our way through life.