Awakening from the Meaning Crisis || John Vaervaeke
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The Importance of Ah in Cognitive Flexibility
I'm running an experiment at U of T and we've already presented some of the findings at a conference. So you induce Ah in people by standard techniques overview effect, things like that. And then I thought, well, if Kelton is right and Ah is just sort of a combination, you should see measures of enhanced cognitive flexibility. Because accommodation means you're breaking out of an old frame and you're starting to make a new frame, right? You're starting to adapt and reframe reality or maybe even transferring your apprehension of reality in a powerful way. The idea was we should see a difference between people who are put into the experience and people who aren't and we didn't find
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