I coined a term that helps me intuitively identify the common levels of human thinking: high-resolution thinking. In Vietnamese, it translates as Tư duy có độ phân giải cao.
Using this framework, human thinking can be classified like video resolutions—from 144p up to 8K—each level reflecting the clarity and depth of understanding:
144p – Blurry Thinking: Only the broad shapes are visible; understanding is rudimentary with many gaps. This occurs when someone has very limited knowledge but believes they fully grasp the truth.
240p – Rough Thinking: Understands general concepts but cannot discern important details. Easily misled.
360p – Common Thinking: Thinks like most people. Reasonably correct but lacks depth. Typical when someone follows the majority, cultural or religious norms, authority, personal interests, or propaganda—without independent insight.
480p – Acceptable Thinking: Can analyze at a basic level but misses many important elements. Begins to see the reasoning of the “other side” but remains biased, unable to assess objectively.
720p (HD) – Clear Thinking: Understands the main structure, eliminates many logical errors. Specialized in a field and able to comprehend both one’s own reasoning and that of opposing perspectives (e.g., contrasting religions, ideologies, or value systems).
1080p (Full HD) – Standard Logical Thinking: Analysis is clear and largely error-free. Faces facts directly and is sufficiently deep for serious work. Expertise exists in a field, with connections to knowledge in other areas—requires a broad understanding.
1440p (2K) – High-Resolution Thinking: Sees hidden relationships, layers of information, and underlying mechanisms. Requires broad knowledge across domains and begins to perceive the rules governing phenomena.
2160p (4K) – Sharp Thinking: Sees structures clearly, penetrates layers of meaning, achieves high-resolution insight. Recognizes basic patterns in everything, understands what others think—even when they themselves never realize it. Requires encyclopedic knowledge.
4320p (8K) – Ultra-High-Resolution Thinking: Perceives entire systems, meta-structures, and the principles generating information. Multilogical and multidimensional thinking, qualia-bit awareness. Sees everything in extraordinary detail, masters the rules, and can even transcend reality—stepping into another universe.
By “stepping into another universe,” I refer to an example like AI. AI lacks qualia (subjective experience of space-time), but at a high enough cognitive level, it could “step into another universe” and experience space-time as humans do. Some animals, like buffalo or tigers, live in space-time and perceive it to some degree.
Humans, similarly, require very high awareness to grasp that the flow of time is not absolute. This demands an understanding of qualia—something most people have never even heard of. That’s what I mean by “stepping into another universe.”
Most people perceive the world at 360p or lower
Most people perceive the world at 360p or lower, unless they invest serious time and focus. Achieving higher “resolution” requires correct, complete, and detailed information, logical and objective analysis, and disciplined mental effort.
Vocabulary helps us quickly grasp phenomena, and high-resolution thinking is one such term!
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