Our greatest thinkers didn't use logic

The title is perhaps misleading when what I mean is that our greatest thinkers didn’t use logic in their thinking to come up with the solutions plaguing humanity over the aeons.

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Ki Joko Moro

5/5/20242 min read

a heavy fog blankets a mountain with trees faintly visible
a heavy fog blankets a mountain with trees faintly visible

The title is perhaps misleading when what I mean is that our greatest thinkers didn’t use logic in their thinking to come up with the solutions plaguing humanity over the aeons.

In order to utilise the highest capacity of our brains and our minds, it is necessary to suspend and ignore the part of our brains and minds that wants to insert logic. Logic is a limiting factor in thinking, in particular, in the kind of creative thinking required to tackle the existential problems and issues that concern modern man. Or modern man as we have existed at various points in time throughout the aeons.

Logic is defined as being reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity. The use of logic would’ve meant that our greatest thinkers would have been distracted by attempting to squash their thinking into narrow confines of what logic allows. In other words, our greatest thinkers would’ve been limited not by imagination but by what is considered as being valid.

And as history has shown time and time again, this kind of thinking would have not solved our biggest pressing issues of the time. To deal with such things, we must use our imagination to think through solutions to our problems.

Using our imagination requires the absence of logic.

Our dreams and imagination operate outside of logic and cannot be maximised if we are using logic. Logic does not allow a person to think through a problem in a way that results in a solution. Logic only stops that solution from coming to mind.

But the solution will need logic applied after the solution has been thought of. Without that step of applying logic the solution cannot come into existence. Logic is needed but it is not needed and not desirable to think of solutions or to even think through a day-to-day problem.

This is why I can say with absolute confidence our greatest thinkers didn’t use logic.

They might have applied logic after they came up with their theories or solutions. But that is after they used their imagination and used their faith in themselves, the spirits and the Gods.

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