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Who are your favourite living thinkers / intellectuals?

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It does not have to be a "brainiac" but someone that you always find worth checking what it says, despite agreeing or not.

One of them may be Sean Carroll for me. I should get some more. And Chomsky, but he is off the map now due to health issues.

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  • Carroll is new to me, thanks for the tip - ever since "The Dancing wu-li masters" the cross-over with science and spirituality has interested me,

    Steven Pinker - I first came across his work in dialectic with Chomsky on linguistics.  Since then I especially enjoyed his work on popularising  "thinking about thinking".

    the last one is a bit of a cheat as it really refers to a type of thinking rather than an individual : "Lao Tzu"

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  • Carroll is new to me, thanks for the tip - ever since "The Dancing wu-li masters" the cross-over with science and spirituality has interested me,

    Steven Pinker - I first came across his work in dialectic with Chomsky on linguistics.  Since then I especially enjoyed his work on popularising  "thinking about thinking".

    the last one is a bit of a cheat as it really refers to a type of thinking rather than an individual : "Lao Tzu"

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