In particular live thoughts have limited recursion depth, and only have access to limited working memory; written thoughts have unlimited recursion depth, and paper has unlimited memory.
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The scope of thoughts you can write is much broader than the scope of thoughts you can think on your own. Written language, much like computer code, can express programs that are out of reach for brains alone. Write to think.
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i find journaling/note-taking to be a great tool for developing ideas for writing and coding
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Amazing how new ideas when mixed can generate ideas further beyond the original scope.
#HomoSapiens adding#society#collaboration#Ideas#Imagination takes us a lot further. Writing is key for consolidation and expansion.
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Sometimes after I have written a paper, I find myself deriving new ideas from my own writings while revising them!
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I believe Chomsky argues that language is primarily a tool for thinking, only secondarily a tool for expressing ideas to others. I often discover my opinions just as I calculate square roots: by successive approximations.
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Care should be taken. Not to confuse voices in head with thoughts. Voices are temporary. Writing filters voices
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