Against Mindfulness

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Notes:

Automation is more desirable than thinking about what we are doing.

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 Science and the Modern World
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Whitehead , Alfred North (1926), Science and the Modern World, CUP Archive, Retrieved on 2014-05-29
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