What Is Called Thinking?

What Is Called Thinking?

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What Is Called Thinking?
Does Progress Depend on Us?

Does Progress Depend on Us?

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Zohar Atkins
Dec 11, 2020
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“Do, think, and imagine that which nobody else can” goes the contrarian imperative. Otherwise, if your best ideas and actions could have come from anywhere, if they don’t depend on you, what value have you added to the world? You’re just a bot, a cog in a machine, etc.

But such a line of thinking is radically modern. It assumes that the best things we ca…

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