Now, I am jumping to a different topic: how people think. Obviously, since we are not psychic, our ways of thinking are very different of yours. We have logical mind, intuition and emotions. Our mind is typically fragmented and we are normally switching between different parts of our mind.
I will talk more about my personal ways of thinking because I know it best. It is more difficult for me to tell about ways of thinking of others, since I can judge about these ways only by what I observe and hear from others.
When I switch from English to Russian and back my personality changes substantially. Parts of information are accessible to me only when I am thinking in one language and not another. Thinking on each language affects the patterns of my thought. I noticed that many Russian immigrants to America exhibit similar effect: that switching from one language to another changes their personality. Similarly, I change substantially when I move from one place to another. As I start thinking of Russia, and especially, as I travel to Russia, my way of thinking changes. I normally live away from New York City and drive there only rarely. Driving in New York City requires a special pattern of thought. This is somewhat connected with survival, since driving in New York is like a special dance, and if you dance it incorrectly, you may get in a car accident. So when I am visiting New York City, I turn on my special driving skill, which I learned in Moscow; it is more involved and somewhat aggressive. This was another illustration: how environment affects our thinking patterns. I also need to note that often I don't use language in my thinking. Sometimes I use images flat or three-dimensional, especially when I am solving engineering problems. But in most cases, I think very vaguely about things, and my thoughts are very hard to put in any sorts of symbols. Much of the thinking happens on emotional level. I sort of shift my focus from one place to another and feel emotion. This maybe is a way of searching for the most exciting things or sometimes it is just a subconscious process of sorting subjects and topics by priority and archiving them. This reflective daydreaming is a substantial part of my thought process. To convert my thoughts into something tangible, into symbols and language, I need to make a conscious effort, best done by pronouncing things aloud or writing them down. I assume that many people are like that, daydreaming in very uncertain terms. There may be much digital thinking happening in our subconscious mind that we are not aware of; even so, we often drive and make choice on which problems to think and which topics to dismiss.
Most importantly, I find people to vary much in extent of their logical versus intuitive thinking. I would classify my way of thinking as largely intuitive. It is somewhat by choice and has been much affected and tuned up by my experiences. I have some control over the thinking tools I use and over the topics of my thoughts, but in general my thoughts are occurring largely independently of my choices. I choose to be very liberal to my thoughts and not to interfere much with them. I generally treat my mind quite respectfully and gently. This is a bit of a joke as we think that we are our mind, but let's say my choosing part liberally allows for processes in other parts to walk their path to a certain point, until it gently represses them and activates other processes.
What is unusual about my mind, it that I am in most cases very uncertain. My mind is very fussy; there is a fog almost constantly in my mind. I would say many humans are like that. I can only guess that you are thinking more clearly. Other humans are more discrete and digital. Their mind is logical and less intuitive. When they think, the path of their logic is more under conscious control. I think in a way that much of my thinking is unknown to me. I ask a question and get an answer, but how it happens is largely unknown to me. Allegorically, I see only above the water, and what happens underneath is not visible to me. I noticed that digitally thinking humans are way better with facts, factual information, symbols, words and numbers. When they are driving, they remember the names of the streets they are crossing and taking and navigate using these references. My ability to read and remember facts is extremely limited. I am not very good at navigation when driving. I often get lost and remembering streets and names is difficult for me.
On the other hand, I am better in remembering and predicting patterns. People with logical thinking can multitask since their logic is digital and takes little of processing time. I have trouble multitasking. I better work on one thing, and then switch to another.
The advantage of my way of fussy intuitive thinking is that it is empirical. I can function within a large extent of uncertainty, where logical people feel very uncomfortable. I can also deal with many partially certain facts. I understand that I am using my emotions and analogue logics (as opposed to digital) to have many parallel processes happen at my mind at the same time. I am extremely creative and good at problem solving, especially where the problems are dealing with many uncertainties. I understand that my mind works as follows: it creates a model of the part of the world dealing with the problem, with many facts defined as probabilities. I do a special meditation to have it set up. It usually takes couple minutes to create such a state of my mind. Then I run an optimization problem which finds a most probable path running through a model that I just created. As this path appears in my mind, I use logic to test and clarify it. This allows for creative intuitive solutions which are much more difficult to obtain with logical thinking. Why intuitive thinking allows for more creativity I don't know. Maybe logical thinking allows for creativity as well. Maybe it is my higher self which has more opportunities to express himself in my life when I use intuitive thinking. Maybe intuitive thinking is more creative because there are less fear and less inhibition; maybe intuition is not as repressed by mainstream education and life traumas as logical thinking. In my creativity I use a lot of random thought generators in my mind. Maybe logical thinking doesn't allow for random thought generators, I don't know. But I am using random thought generators very often. For example, when I write poetry, I induce randomness in my mind. This state of uncertainty and fussiness is conducive to randomness. I also use random thought generators when I solve life problems and problems in math and science. They also help much with brainstorming.