[mercurialsolo]

Writing is like extending the context window for our brains neural nets. Writing helps us also defragment our brains. We write notes for ourselves to empty our brains of the thoughts at times.

PG's work back in the day on writing as a form of think is still pretty relevant. http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html

[jodrellblank]

If writing is a form of thinking, and a picture is worth a thousand words, does drawing (instead of writing) give a 1000x boost to thinking in any way?

[blechinger]

It can certainly help pierce the shroud of qualia and aid knowledge transfer. Other forms of communication like diagrams, portrait sketches, and maps prove this out.

[PartiallyTyped]

Yes, but all you need is arrows; see Category theory ;)

[__loam]

I love that we can't have a discussion about brains without a very poor computer science analogy.