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As Infoshare pointed out, Mikhail Epstein wrote:
. . . I shared this experience of what we called "co-thinking" (Russian somyslie ) with such wonderful friends and colleagues as I think that "co-thinking" is the key to the intellectual activity that Epstein extolls, but I do not understand precisely what "co-thinking" means. This is because when I do an online search of "co-thinking", each source has a different definition.

When I look up the Russian word "somyslie" in an online search, all of the definitions (have so far) come out in Russian language. When I use online Russian-English dictionaries, I (so far have) come up with a message like "no translation found."
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I found what might be an indirect definition of the "co-thinking" to which Epstein is refering. He and others wrote an English article entitled, "Why the University is Not a Strip Mall of Knowledge: An manifesto for humanistic education." Here is a passage I plucked out:

. . . Education is an improvisational activity, a social event of co-thinking, where each participant is as unknown to others as he is unpredictable to himself. The sharing and reproducing of knowledge is only a preparatory step to the event of co-thinking.

I would suggest that knowledge relates to thinking as mass relates to energy. Education is not just the transference of the mass of knowledge from one head to another or to many heads. It is the process of unloosing, of splitting this mass in order to produce the energy of new associations, linkages, configurations... Source:http://www.emory.edu/ACAD_EXCHANGE/2...ar/epstein.htm

This ^^^ is only an educated guess on my part. That is why I am asking members who can translate Russian the following:

Is there any source (in English!) that describes exactly what Mikhail Epstein's "somyslie" entails? Thank you in advance.