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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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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One thing I'm learning to appreciate more these days is poetry. Prose with arguments, explanations and justifications is severely limited to express some kinds of 'facts'.
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Writing, symbols and languages are extended, often potentially collective memory systems. A cool trick that humans figured among the fellow animal pool. I wonder if there other outlets of expression that transcend even writing memory systems.
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You’ve convinced me.
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I think this (good!) point was formalized here -unfortunately never got around to reading it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Literate-Mind-Study-Scope-Limitations/dp/0230201199 …
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Yes but memory is much faster access like RAM. Actually, even the process of vocalizing (giving words to your thoughts) expends extra energy. You can compute faster if you don't vocalize (~cache?)
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I like to use forgetting as a tool to develop additional perspectives on an idea, which you cannot do if you need to keep the whole thing in your mind. Offloading (even in the form of quick notes) + time away from the question help.
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This is absolutely true! Many a time, tweet-storming about something takes a life on its own for me, with ideas feeding on ideas as I write them, some of which I had not thought of before but come pouring out as if from an uncorked bottle.
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As the great poet Rabindranath Tagore put so aptly: "the lute awestruck by the confident boldness of its own creative notes"
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