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Is There a Difference Between Urgent Real Thinking and Playful Thinking?

There's fake should thinking, or let me say urgent fake thinking. For example, rehearsing arguments that you read in a blog post usually isn't thinking. Then there's urgent real thinking, which is actually thinking and has the structure of how can I make the world go this way? Playful thinking doesn't have to have a justification like that, it's coming from a different source. It's sort of subtle, or even sacred if you'll permit me to use that word,. so it's hard to justify or, like, comprehensively describe.

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