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Ep. 42 - Intelligence, Rationality, and Wisdom

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Leap to Integration

The experiment showed that the better you are at leaping, the better you're at insight. If I try to shut off too much leaping to conclusions, I'm also shutting off the machinery that makes me more insightful. Being rational is a very complex process in which there are trade off relationships and a very complicated kind of optimization needs to be trained. So we want active open mindedness to make this the error of interference. It's central to being a problem solver, central to being rational.

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