One plus One …

I just discovered a wonderful proverb, said to be from west Africa:
If you give me an egg and I give you an egg, we each have one egg.
If you give me an idea and I give you an idea, we each have two ideas.
Of course sharing ideas is central to what slow thinking is about. [...]

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Our brains need slow thinking and community

Steven Johnson, in his stimulating book, Emergence, offers a quote by the futurist, Ray Kurzweil to emphasis the importance of pattern formation and recognition.
Because each individual neuron is so slow, [Ray] Kurzweil explains, “we don’t have time to think too many new thoughts when we are pressed to make a decision. The human [...]

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