Styles of Thinking

Abstract

This is an attempt to show that the cartesian duality between body and mind can be resolved by replacing the latter with the concept of thinking as a corporal process. In this both the body and the surrounding environment are involved. The thinking processes is non-algorithmic and as individual as the human body itself, but there are also common styles of thinking, among different cultures or diferent communities. I argue that in particular the difference between scientificand artistic etc view the world is essentially a mattrer of “thinking style” rather than that of method. Although thinking processes of different inddividuals are in principle different, yet they can be “atuned to”. In particular, written down expression of human thought: books, articles etc. does not capture the full thinking process: after all, thinking is what we do.