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EP 69: Dr. Pik Mukherji on Cognitive Preparation

The Emergency Mind Podcast

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Is There a Difference Between Waiting and Acting?

There's a whole another arc that we talk about a lot on the emergency mind podcast, which is like the decision of when to act, versus not act. We're talking about all the signals that are incoming that we're going to synthesize and compile into a mental model. And if reality is x, should we act in path a or path b? There is these linked, sort of probablistic chains that happen as a result of that. So what we have buried in this is different abilities to draw signal and noise out of the universe, and then a different ability to sift through lots of things that or maybe a signal and maybe noise, and pick out the ones that matter

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