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#392 – Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans

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The Power of Intuition

You can morph reality into something more pleasant for yourself. Just have fun with it. Why don't we start really messing with reality, without the use of drugs or anything else? Like intentionally? Why should we? The thing is that the outer mind is usually smarter than you are. Rational thinking is very brittle. It's very hard to use logic and symbolic thinking to have an accurate model of the world. So there is often an underlying system that is looking at your rational thoughts and then tells you, no, you're still missing something. Your gut feeling is still facing something else. And that system is powerful. People call this intuition. Intuition is this unreflected part of

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