
Ep 170: Are creativity and consciousness the same thing?
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The Connection Between Consciousness and Creativity
The difference is that of course the person never is actually unconscious. We do not know how the mind works in any fine-grained way. But as a matter of subjectivity it seems probative of this consciousness and creativity link. The idea people can learn to perform routine tasks in a way that is so reliable they no longer need to pay barely any attention to them is a clue about the link between consciousness and creativity.
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