1-1a5a A real essay doesn’t take a position and then defend it (deductive). It starts with a question (abductive), in trying to figure something out.
9-2a2 You have to figure out where you are going by living abductively via surprises
4-1a4b5a Maybe consciousness is seeing your thinking mediated on some other physical form, realizing that it could’ve been put otherwise (and optionally you improve upon)
9-4b1 Writing is abduction repeated
9-4c Someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial