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Some thoughts about thinking, part II

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Feb 06, 2022
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June 18, continued

 The difference between mechanical thought and actual thought is that actual thought can observe; and, in a paradoxical bootstrapping nature, can even observe itself, because self awareness is exactly that. The third kind of thought is, however, not observable in the same sense because it takes place in the realm of true thinking, that…

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