I am understanding more and more the gulf that is being developed between thinking and doing and how the global panic of insecurity in whatever a materialistic society we are evolving into may grow like an ugly rash on the uniqueness of the Human intellect along with what may be considered wisdom. How thinkers are being wooed by the dark side of pragmatic problems solvers. In consideration of what Dewey supports as thinking for "troubleshooting" as you will, after the fact, as opposed to what he believed the harmful act of deep thinking just helps people retreat from the reality of everyday life and has no real value to society. He calls them irrelevant speculations, fantasies and dreams. I never knew how closely I followed his idealology until I read " The function of reflective thought is, therefore, to transform a situation in which there is experienced obscurity, doubt, conflict, disturbance of some sort, into a situation that is clear, coherent, settled , harmonious" As a problem solver I have never actually considered the down side of giving up careful considerate thought to an artificial intelligence that contains facts but no actual reason. This course will be an interesting trip down the Rabbit Hole.