Time, a Digression
My interest in errors of mechanical thinking is part of a broader curiosity. There are many ways to look at the world, as I see it. While treating its constituents, especially the living ones, as machines and expecting them to …
January 2023
Mechanical Thinking 3: Interchangeable
This is another essay in a series of explorations into what I’m calling “mechanical thinking.” By that, I mean the use of metaphors from the machine realm to describe people, things, and concepts that are organic in nature. When a …
How to (Do a Hell of a Lot More Than) Think for Yourself 9: Information-Seeking
Information-Seeking Imagine you awake on the floor in a pitch black room and you don’t know where you are, how you got there, or anything else about the situation. It could be said that you lack “information.” You could be …
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