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How do I think for myself?

>> No.9747578

>>9747573
Read this
https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences

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>>9747578
>lesswrong

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>>9747585

>> No.9748368

>>9747578
>>9747595
I'll look up on it and determine wether to read it or not.
>>9747585
This gave me a good chuckel haha. Thank you, i'll see if I do decide to read the 6 books if I feel the same way

>> No.9748371

Anymore?

>> No.9748407

Shrooms.

>> No.9748455

>>9747573
Well the first step is to make sure you disagree with the common consensus.
You can't be a free thinker if you're not even contrarian.

>> No.9748468

>>9747573
Believe in the you who believes in himself.

>> No.9748721

>>9747573
find an interest in something. study it. know the ins-and-outs of the field. Then contribute. Just like everyone else.

>> No.9748764

>>9747573
you are kind of doing it right now, as much as a meat automaton can anyways
if what you mean is how do you develop novel ideas for research the answer is you'll never do it, but you'll get closer to authentic novelty of ideas by continuing to study, research, publish, and discussing within your field

>> No.9748799

>>9748407
Or research chemicals.
https://lysergi.com/

>> No.9748802

>>9748368
The other sequences are also worth reading, like Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners.

>> No.9748967

Nice thank you all, but I need more bois. And elaborate if you can

>> No.9749143

>>9747573
Maybe formal logic can help strengthen and define your mind, to better see through bullshit?
You could try working through 'Introduction to Logic' by Gensler. It's on libgen, of course.

>> No.9749154

Ask sci how

See youre already doing it anon! It just so happens that for you that is asking other people what to think.

>> No.9749223

>>9747595
>Islam is terrible

I for one don't see thots ruining their society.... Islam is a perfectly valid strategy and it keeps Arabic societies in order

>but muh middle east
America/Israel

>but muh historic wars
1. increased stability not total stability
2. same with the rest of anywhere else

>> No.9749226

>>9747573
It's genetically predetermined.

>> No.9749244

>>9749226
The ability for an individual to change the way they think is predetermined... Stop.

>> No.9749248

>>9749143
>>9748802
>>9748721
>>9748468
>>9748455
Thank you, i'll look into all of these.
>>9748407
I'm planning on doing this later in life.

Anymore suggestions? Trying to milk as much as I can

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>>9747573
Develop a problem with authority and become a depressed social outcast that knows better than everyone else but has no power to change anything.

t. depressed social outcast that knows better than everyone else but has no power to change anything

>> No.9749264

you just try to make sense of the world

>> No.9749271

Become a contrarian so that you are thinking things that other people aren't

>> No.9749289

Try a different approach to thinking. Or change your environment, see what happens. Catch the patterns of your thought process and try to make slight variations.

>> No.9749318

Critical thinking means always challenging your beliefs. I think of it as internalizing Socrates--the gadfly of Athens. Which doesn't mean thinking whatever Plato suggested Socrates believed, but to always question and challenge your own beliefs and intuitions.