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SquirrelInHell comments on Common Misconceptions about Dual Process Theories of Human Reasoning - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Gram_Stone 19 March 2016 09:50PM

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Comment author: SquirrelInHell 19 March 2016 10:52:32PM *  2 points [-]

Oh man.

I didn't know there were "respectable" sources that basically make the same points I found out by myself.

I mentioned all what you wrote (except the fifth issue), and some more, in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV8sabfHelQ (warning, bad English accent)

The fifth common confusion is that, although language is often involved in Type 2 processing, this is likely a mere correlate

I've had a similar observation on my own after experimenting with wordless thinking.

I found that I could think wordlessly and imagelessly, and even have new insights while doing that, but I could not store those abstract new insights in short-term memory without vocalizing them.

Comment author: Gram_Stone 19 March 2016 10:58:58PM *  1 point [-]

It seems to sacrifice precision for accessibility, but I still like it very much. Also, you definitely have a thick accent, but you can certainly still be said to enunciate clearly, and I perfectly understood everything that you said. Also, I detected no syntactic or semantic errors, and your diction sounds very high.