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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3764784" data-attributes="member: 32536"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> I don't see the relevence to our discussion. Also, I disagree with the premise. Humans are highly intuitive creatures, with the ability to process incredibly large amounts of information in interesting ways, even while not explicitly paying attention to what they are doing. Thought progesses according to random connections and mass simultaneous processing. Intentional work is not necessary for the human brain to achieve extremely insightful and interesting results. Certainly, a level of critical examination of new ideas is useful, and the ability to formulate ideas in a logical manner and evaluate the logic of antoher's ideas, but these abilities are all that is required to get a large amount of information from anything. Authorial intent or originality of a work is irrelevent to these processes.If anything, critical thinking is more useful when trying to sort through the miring mass of junk called the "network news" than it relevent to enjoying fantasy.</blockquote>