But there is two kinds of thinking. One is to retreat into mental contemplation *about* the phenomenon and rely on aquired knowledge to make sense of the thing before you. What you learned in school about glass and sand. That SF movie your dad made you watch with him.
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We train our kids to ‘go cognitive’ like this all the time. My question, together with some cultural bagage, pops it into action immediately.
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But there is another way of thinking which is perhaps better termed: more precise *seeing*. It is about looking at that cup as if you looked at it for the very first time and then try to put into words what you experience. Theatre students learn it, and. imagine other artists too
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This would be akin to the phenomological reduction: to see “what is really there” without replacing/onscuring what is really there with theories, theories that pull *you* out of ‘being there’ and turn the coffee cup into either a pile of sand, or an illusion.
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Time for a cup of coffee!
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To be fair, that's basically my brain 33.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
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I could have used an ellipsis, but that's no fun. :P
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