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altmanaltmantoday at 7:09 AM1 replyview on HN

Yes, but not to understand or think about the world. In this case, writing was to express something, not to understand something. The overall point is that claiming that "human writing = human thinking" is too broad a general statement to make seriously.


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lelanthrantoday at 8:21 AM

> The overall point is that claiming that "human writing = human thinking" is too broad a general statement to make seriously.

Do you have any non-contrived example of writing that was done with zero thought?

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