Re:Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
by sombremesa on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:27PM
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You've abandoned "thinking is a process of considering options and reaching a conclusion" now.
> making decisions based on learnings
This is the ONLY type of thinking there is. Ergo, you can 'think faster' for any given discipline with practice.
Re:Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
by bluefirebrand on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:58PM
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You've abandoned "thinking is a process of considering options and reaching a conclusion" now
This is a big claim to make without any explanation of why you think that.
I'm forced to conclude you're not discussing in good faith. Bye.
Re:Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
by sombremesa on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:28PM
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If the process of considering options and reaching the correct conclusion concludes faster and that is our definition of thinking, it should follow that the thinking is faster. Somewhere in your last comment you must've pivoted your definition, because you described it rather as thinking 'less' and saying that it is NOT the same thing as thinking faster. That's perfectly fine, of course, but it left me confused as to what definition you were now using.
It's a shame you've decided to abandon the argument.
> If the process of considering options and reaching the correct conclusion concludes faster and that is our definition of thinking, it should follow that the thinking is faster.
That doesn't follow because once you've mastered something you consider less options to reach a conclusion than a novice. One reaches the correct conclusion whit less thinking, not faster thinking.
Following your logic a person taking a shortcut from point A to point B is doing the same amount of driving as somebody not taking the shortcut, they are just driving faster.
It's a meaningful distinction because there are physical and mental costs (calories and stress) to trying to "think faster" that don't accrue the same when making decisions based on learnings.