¶ Thinking
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Thinking:
“We see that what we do when we think is to momentarily dismiss all the irrelevant thoughts as we would part the grass to right and left in order to find the path. So thinking is high frequency interception and very temporary diversion to a local holding pattern outside our consideration of all the irrelevant inbound feedback-- just as inbound airplanes are ‘stacked up’ in the sky near airports by the ground control when too many come in at about the same time. Having isolated a finite set of experiences-- spontaneously grouped for comprehensive consideration-- by dismissing the irrelevantancies, we may proceed to comprehend the isolated system by applying the theory of ‘bits,’ which breaks up finite wholes into finite parts.”
¶ Citations
- NASA Speech, pp 39,40, Jun’66
