Joshua Rothman on forms of thinking, in New Yorker.
“our inner voices are powerful tools that must be tamed. […] The idea is to manage the voice that you use for self-management.
[…]Schwitzgebel thinks it’s a mistake to categorize dreams one way or the other. “We should also consider the possibility that our dreams are neither color nor black-and-white,” he writes. Dreams are unreal, and might not lend themselves to being described during waking life. In describing them, we give them a fixity they may not have.
[…]Daniel Dennett argued that a layer of fiction is woven into what it is to be human. In a sense, fiction is flawed: it’s not true. […] Fiction, Dennett writes, has a deliberately “indeterminate” status: it’s true, but only on its own terms. The same goes for our minds.”
Walking long and far help my thinking process.
Stand and stare some place, recalling or thinking through what comes to mind.
