By critical thinking, I suppose I mean more along the lines of evaluate this text or claim or media
This thread is really making me realize how many people just don’t know what critical thinking is… :\
Problem solving is not the same as critical thinking. No puzzle or strategy game, that I can think of, has any significant critical thinking component to it.
Wait, just thought of one exception. Social deduction games, like Among Us, when played with live chat, will train critical thinking. Critical thinking is about figuring out if this information is lying to you (edit: or otherwise flawed in some way) or not, and if so, how.
But most people who play Among Us are dinguses!
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Yes, it is called any decent critically acclaimed video game.
Don’t listen to non-sense about games designed by “experts” to be tuned to make you smarter… it is a bunch of variously smarmy or disengenous people who really do a massive intellectual injustice to the actual experts at interactive media design… video game designers… ALSO modern board game designers.
Modern society is so sick that we would rather listen to tech bro scammers apply pseudo science over artists who don’t bullshit about knowing precisely why something stimulates your mind scientifically and get to the actual hard work of making virtual experiences challenging and meaningful.
Seriously, I find this cottage industry of “brain games” VERY insulting to the decades long movement of video game design.
I’m not so much looking for “brain games” as something that facillitates practicing crit thinking in terms of recognizing and evaluating claims and detecting biases and rhetoric etc. Maybe media crit a bit also, like “what are the claims being made and argue against them or what is a counterargument” etc
I wonder if that law school entrance exam prep thingy would be helpful…
Read good fiction or literature, those are the bread and butter processes of critically reading truly good fiction that doesn’t hamfistedly oversimplify the human condition.
Here are some recommendations:
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
or
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
I am not talking about scifi that is more interested in the technical details of space war than giving characters depth, though there is plenty of amazing scifi of course!
This sounds more like a fact checker than brain games.
Gotta keep my Duolingo streak going.
I hear you bro. Now on the much buggier Babbel.
I wish babble had chinese, but it’s only duo :/
I’d love to learn but I’m struggling with French!
Minute Cryptic has a daily cryptic crossword clue which is pretty fun. And they post video explanations for each solution, which is helpful for learning how cryptic crosswords work
On this line of thinking, are there any once a day mindfulness prompts? All I can seem to find are journaling apps, etc.
I just want a prompt at 6am to make me think about something positive to start my day
You could listen to some Street Epistemology stuff, especially Anthony Magnabosco. Theres many questions that kept me thinking for days about my own views.
Memento Mori focuses on daily stoicism practises. I’m very interested in other suggestions though. I’d love to practise critical thinking exercises more.
NYT has a great puzzle app.
My sudoko app has a daily challenge.
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Or the user-driven, 100% free, and open-source alternative lichess.org
Why play chess when you can play more fun modern strategy board games (especially to lose) Concordia, Dominion, Agricola, Wingspan, Keyflower, Yellow & Yangtze etc…?
Chess is fine, but there are far more stimulating experiences in modern board gaming that are just as deep and a hell of a lot more fun.
I’ve literally never heard of any of them. I knew the rules of chess since I was 5 or 6.
Check out modern board gaming, chess is a mediocre abstract game with no theme that is very unsatisfying to play unless you are evenly matched with someone.
I will choose neither as I don’t have any time for games
