...through acculturation and conditioning is part of an inherited take-it-for-granted world. For Whitehead, 'the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them' underpins the very advance of civilization itself (Whitehead 1939: 61). By comparison, those concepts...

...naive physics of Star Trek 28 Mental models of motion 30 Summary 34 Further reading 35 , Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. (Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas) The only reason some people get lost in thought is because...

...thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposire is the case. Civilisation advances by exrending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.' The significance of this proposition is enhanced by its appearance in Whirehead's Introduction to Mathematics,...

...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number,...

...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them." 3 Perhaps some people are born with greater potential for good thinking habits than are others. And...

...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them." The Whitehead argument depends on some assumptions about the relation between rules and intelligent...

...we should cultivate the habit of thinking about what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them". But elsewhere (as quoted by Laszlo, 1972) he wrote: "in creative thought, common sense is a bad master....

...and-statements. As before, we arrange the terms so that terms in adjacent cells differ by only one factor. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...which we can perform without thinking about them. Aljnd North Whitehead pf\-q We consider the first column to be adjacent to the last column since those...

...that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important...operations which we can perform without thinking about them"l2 (Whitehead, l9ll, p. 6l). Or, we might add, without describing them explicitly. To the extent...

...cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. [Intelligence] advances by extending the number of important operations...which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in battle - they are strictly limited in number, they...