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Serious question: how do people on LW experience thinking?
I find that the heavy lifting of my thinking is nonverbal and fast. Verbalizing (and often re-re-verbalizing) takes time, running explicit math takes (a lot of) time, and worrying at a verbalized idea without getting anywhere can waste indefinite time, but actual intelligent thought feels like a burst of focused attention/effort and a gestalt answer that arrives in an instant.
I think there's multiple types of thinking. For example, formal thinking that uses math and logic, and is applicable to a large set of problems, but incredibly inefficient for others. Problems with a near infinite search space, problems that require "creativity", I can spend a lot of time thinking, and get good results thereby, but cannot explain my thought processes. If possible, these can be more efficient to think about over a long period rather than "intensely". Other thought processes are near instant, also mostly subconscious.
You can think of these as full-conscious, both conscious and sub-conscious, and full sub-conscious.