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The Free Energy Principle, Consciousness & Psychedelics with Dr. Adam Safron

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Creativity and Curiosity Trump Intelligence

I think creativity and curiosity trumps intelligence because an intelligent person can learn something very quickly, that they can learn a process. So even though the creative person may not have the same intellectual horsepower to put it one way than the hyper intelligent people, their ability to generate new ideas and new technologies is just, you know, it beats intelligence in some respects. And I feel like the free energy principle, or this, this sampling of the environment, developing a model, being curious, putting things together, I think kind of brings it together in a better way.

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