NP, but perhaps to do with authorial intent and such

[Ian Livingston]

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/ian-leslie/non-cogito-ergo-sum

"Researchers from Columbia Business School, New York, conducted an
experiment in which people were asked to predict outcomes across a range of
fields, from politics to the weather to the winner of “American Idol”. They
found that those who placed high trust in their feelings made better
predictions than those who didn’t. The result only applied, however, when
the participants had some prior knowledge.
"This last point is vital. Unthinking is not the same as ignorance; you
can’t unthink if you haven’t already thought. Djokovic was able to pull off
his wonder shot because he had played a thousand variations on it in
previous matches and practice; Dylan’s lyrical outpourings drew on his
immersion in folk songs, French poetry and American legends. The
unconscious minds of great artists and sportsmen are like dense
rainforests, which send up spores of inspiration."

Devour information, shit inspiration?
Of course a very high IQ might be useful in that equation. The non-thinker
must have the mental bowels of an alchemist's laboratory.

-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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