I Have Things to Do

And stuff on my mind. So here I am. This kind of post was perhaps the greater proportion of the posts in Groundhog Day, where I was often trying to "figure stuff out." Urgent questions about why my life was not working out the way I thought it would. "Thought," past tense of "to think." There's a lot of noise out there about artificial intelligence, and what it's going to do to our ability "to think." I'm not particularly worried about it, because we've already devalued the skill of thinking to the point where few of us actually know how to do it. Now, there's a lot of "cognitive activity" going on between all of our ears. Most of it is not "thinking" in the sense that I use the word. By "thinking," I'm referring to using reason and logic, and interrogating a question. It's a skill, and it can be learned. It can even be self-taught, if you're literate and motivated. But unless you're motivated, unless there's some reason to possess the skill, few people ever learn it. People in…