The Timing Effect

What Happens When A.I. Gets Smarter Than Humans? (Shocking Truth)

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Aug 13, 2025
What does it mean to be truly intelligent? The hosts explore intelligence beyond rote learning, highlighting the importance of emotional and instinctive understanding. They dive into the three centers of intelligence: mind, heart, and gut. Discover how societal pressures often oversimplify intelligence, and why recognizing our unique abilities can be liberating. Plus, hear about the irreplaceable human qualities that AI will never possess and how emotional intelligence could be the frontier of future interactions.
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INSIGHT

Three-Brain Model Of Intelligence

  • Humans have three brains: head (mental), heart (emotional), and gut (instinctive), and intelligence spans all three centers.
  • Coherence between these centers yields human advantages AI cannot replicate purely through computation.
ANECDOTE

A Class That Changed A Career Path

  • Joy recalls taking a high-school psychology class that ignited her passion for helping people and psychology.
  • Her father told her she was "too smart for that," which diverted her into business until she returned to psychology at nearly 30.
ANECDOTE

Late Diagnosis, Lifelong Creativity

  • Matt shares lifelong schooling struggles and only discovered a learning disability around age 48.
  • He used creative writing and arts to compensate and later leaned into spirituality and self-awareness as his strength.
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