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Comment author: wadavis 02 August 2013 04:15:21PM 2 points [-]

Most idle thought comes across as a mental conversation.

Math (Calculus, Numeric Methods, structural design stuff, not actually numbers) is visualized as shapes, patterns, trends.

And decision making is more felt than anything else, where the attractiveness, consequences, and uncertainty of opposing ideas are weighted side my side.