The ability to think depends on keeping an alternate universe stable in your mind without relying on sensory input, and making observations in it.
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The purpose of thinking is to repair perception and intuition. Perception and intuitive thought entail all the operations you list but only optimize for coherence. Rational thought will have to operate from foundations. If you ground it in intuitions, it may be arbitrarily false.
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