Writing to find out what I think

I was thinking the other day about how much I enjoy keeping this blog (even though no one reads it) because it helps me articulate my thoughts and ideas on different things. I have been having so many more interesting conversations about things like consciousness. Then I was just reading in ‘Consciousness Explained’ by Daniel Dennett about how perhaps we dont know what we’re going to say until we say it and perhaps we don’t really know what we think until we say it. Similar to when a writer releases a book and critics say “the author must have been thinking this” and the author thinks “maybe i was thinking that.” Dennett has a good quote from E. M. Forester: “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” I think I may take some form of that quote for a sort of subtitle for my blog.

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