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EP 154 Iain McGilchrist on The Matter With Things

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The Most Important Thing in Science Is the Intuition

i like to tie it back to science a little bit. One of my favorite episodes on the podcast was with michael strevens, a professor o philosophy of science at nyu. He says that most great scientists have giant leaks of intuition. And they often can't explain why theyr write until months later when they've done a lot of kind of pencil and paper work. Hi doesn't mean to say that all that workaday plotding doesn't have to be done. But it must always be in service to something greater than itself.

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