Subjective thinking.

The next step in sequential thinking?

I can’t find the author’s name, so I’ll just call him Erasmatazz from his website, erasmatazz.com. I quote from what he says about virtual thinking.

There's one other form of thinking out there that represents the next step in sequential thinking: subjunctive thinking. This might be called ‘virtual thinking’; where sequential thinking imagines a line of nodes, subjunctive thinking sees each node as a branchpoint from which a thousand possibilities emerge. The workload of keeping track of all those possibilities is too much for the human brain to handle, but now we have a medium that is ideally suited for subjunctive thinking: the computer. Thus, the computer will permit the full exploitation of subjunctive thinking in the same way that writing permitted the full exploitation of sequential thinking. We are about to enter a new period in the human story every bit as brilliant as that of classical Greece.

A new period in human history as brilliant as that of classical Greece? I doubt it. It will be more brilliant. But not because of what you refer to as virtual thinking, not what you describe as subjective thinking – that is all critical thinking, logical thinking, just another form of sequential thinking, hierarchical thinking, vertical thinking – not creative thinking. Only creative thinking, like God creating the world out of chaos, can be brilliant. Subjective thinking is creative thinking, not linear, which the computer does at fantastic speed and at different levels. The creative ancient Greeks were not critical thinkers, I’m sure – else, my statement is illogical. You can’t create democracy out of logic; you cannot invent anything out of logic, only out of insight, which is not obtained by logic.