I've reverted to physical journaling because I can't think on the computer anymore, and it exactly does feel like thinking on paper, like the writing is the thinking. I totally get what he means
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Weird thing: I used to keep paper diaries. During a few years when I was a permanent traveller, carrying them stopped being practical, so I thought I’d switch to a Word file. It totally didn’t work. But then…
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A related story from Fermi:https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1098098218565390337 …
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Something I’ve been incoherently wondering about in recent years is the extent to which my peculiar cognitive style rests on a peculiar memory control unit. It seems to be much more content-addressable than most people’s, supporting some sort of fuzzy match.
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How to identify a platypus — look at it https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1101656696504541184 …
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Typo: K-h-a-n Academy, not K-a-h-n.
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Thank you! Fixed!
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Yes and what leaps out to me here is that the language Weiner used is exactly what a historian would use to describe their own extended mind Historians work with and think through •records• and textual evidence to help them make sense of the past and how it developed into now
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Whereas physicists know the work is done on the paper. And cabinetmakers know the thinking happens while engaging in work with the blueprint and the space and the wood and tools.
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Check out this athletic platypus who decided to go around the Meander River Weir, at Deloraine in north-west Tasmania, rather than go over the top