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Abstract

Thought and thinking are like a flow, so it is permissible to apply metaphorically interpreted hydrotechnical and hydrological concepts of flows to them. In the civilizational process, we can discern all the functions of water: nutrition, movement, accumulation. For a long time, thinking spread across the earth’s territory along with human flows. Cities turned out to be places of flows of ideas, goods and people, and subsequently assets, which complemented the flows of human masses and information. In the 20th century, thought flows, anthropological flows, and information flows acquired a new noospheric scale and geometry.