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Dorikka comments on Should You Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dorikka 07 November 2011 03:00:36AM 3 points [-]

I am afraid writing my thoughts and reading them will cause them to lose their affective components.

If I have a really good idea, I might write myself a note, but I won't try to describe the whole idea -- if I do, it's like my mental model loses any complexity that couldn't be expressed in my description. Perhaps a paper mindmap might prevent this from happening.

Comment author: Incorrect 07 November 2011 03:05:58AM 0 points [-]

Perhaps you could create an index of affective or untranslatable responses along with stimuli that produce them. You could then reference this index in your notes.

Comment author: Dorikka 07 November 2011 03:13:15AM 0 points [-]

Perhaps. My intuition is that the index would be too long to be useful, but I'm bookmarking it to consider when I have more brainpower to use on it.