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intuition

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does it come from the cognitive mind

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or from a higher dimensional primordial spirit

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there is a question I have been wanting to talk about

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have you ever had this experience

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in a certain moment

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a judgment suddenly pops up in your mind

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with no reasoning

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and no chain of logic

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but you just know

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you cannot explain why

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but you are certain

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this thing

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we usually call it intuition

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but here is the question

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where does your intuition actually come from

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is it reliable

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or is it

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just a product of the brain being lazy

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and more importantly

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what if I told you

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that hiding behind the word intuition

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are actually two completely different things

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would a lot of things suddenly make sense

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hello

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everyone

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I am Leo Wang

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today we are going to do one thing

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I want to take intuition apart

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all the way down

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so you can see clearly

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what you normally feel as intuition

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how many layers it really has

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what the mechanism of each layer is

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and where the differences are

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I will use one man's story to show

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that there is a kind of intuition

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that Kahneman's framework simply cannot contain

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that man is Ramanujan

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let's start with Kahneman

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Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel prize in economics

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the core question he studied all his life was

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how people make judgments

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he proposed a hugely influential model

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dividing human thinking into two systems

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system one

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fast thinking

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system two

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slow thinking

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requiring focus and step by step reasoning

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here is an example

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you are walking down the street

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and you see the outline of a person far away

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in a fraction of a second your brain decides

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this is a man

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around fifty years old

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and in a bad mood

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you did not reason

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you did not analyze

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the judgment was already done

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that is system one at work

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then you sit down to do a math problem

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387 times 24

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you have to break it down step by step

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first 387 times 4

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then 387 times 20

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and add them up

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that is system two at work

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what was Kahneman's key finding

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the vast majority of our daily decisions

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are made by system one

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system two is actually lazy

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most of the time it just rubber stamps

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adding a plausible explanation to system one's conclusion

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now let's translate this into the framework from our earlier episodes

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system one and system two

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are both just two modes of the cognitive mind

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system one is the fast mode of the cognitive mind

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automatic pattern matching trained on all your past experience

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system two is its slow mode

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where you consciously use logic and language to reason

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but fast or slow

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they are limited by the same thing

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your training data

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what you have seen lived through and learned

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determines what the cognitive mind can output

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this point is crucial

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please remember it

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we will need it later

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next I want to talk about a very important scientific finding

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from another giant

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Antonio Damasio

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he is now a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California

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and did his early research at the University of Iowa

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where he proposed the somatic marker hypothesis

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Damasio found

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that when people make decisions

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the brain is not doing pure logic

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the body gives a signal before consciousness does

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say you are considering an investment

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before you finish weighing the pros and cons

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these bodily reactions

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are what Damasio called somatic markers

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he proved this with the famous Iowa gambling task

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participants pick cards from four decks

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some decks lose money in the long run

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the experiment found

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that before healthy people consciously knew which decks were bad

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their skin conductance had already risen

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the body knew the answer before the mind did

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and patients with ventromedial prefrontal damage

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had no such warning signal at all

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so they kept picking the bad decks

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this experiment later became controversial

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researchers redid it with finer questions

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and found that subjects may have known consciously

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earlier than the original study assumed

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but the bodily signal is real

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and it shows up before people can put it into words

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that part still stands

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why does this finding matter

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it shows that what we call intuition

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is largely your body making the judgment for you

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your past experience gets encoded as automatic bodily responses

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when a similar situation shows up again

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the body signals before consciousness does

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you experience that signal as a feeling you cannot name

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what this intuition really is

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it is a compressed file of your past experience

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a fast conclusion the cognitive mind draws from prior beliefs

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it just does not travel the language channel

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so at this point

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Kahneman's fast thinking

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plus Damasio's somatic markers

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give us the full picture of intuition at the cognitive mind level

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it has two paths

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one goes through cognition

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giving you a flash judgment

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the other goes through the body

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giving you a feeling you cannot explain

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but the source is the same

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both come from you as a carbon based local model

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is this kind of intuition reliable

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most of the time yes

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because your training data is large enough

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and the pattern matching is pretty accurate

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an old doctor takes your pulse and knows what is wrong

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a veteran investor glances at a deal and knows

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an old driver hears the engine and knows the problem

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these are advanced versions of the fast mode

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decades of experience compressed into milliseconds

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but it also makes mistakes

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and when it does you cannot even tell

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Kahneman spent most of his life studying these errors

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take the anchoring effect

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you see a number first

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and every later estimate gets dragged toward it

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recent events feel far more probable than they are

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or confirmation bias

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the cognitive mind filters out evidence that contradicts your beliefs

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and keeps only what supports you

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these are illusions made by the mind on autopilot

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what you feel is certainty

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the feeling of I just know

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but underneath runs a piece of buggy code

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so the cognitive mind's intuition has a fatal limit

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it fails systematically without knowing it

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it can never go beyond its training data

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is all the raw material it has

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it can recombine

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it can reason by analogy

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it can transfer patterns

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but it cannot create out of nothing what it never met

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now comes the other side of the story

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in 1913

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the Cambridge mathematician Hardy at Trinity College

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received a letter from India

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the writer was Srinivasa Ramanujan

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a young Indian man with no formal math degree

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the letter was packed with mathematical formulas

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Hardy later recalled

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that he had never seen anything like it

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these formulas

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some he could verify were correct

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but could not understand how they were derived

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some he had never seen before

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and later proved to be brand new mathematics

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and some

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were only proved decades later by other mathematicians

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Ramanujan's mathematical training was very limited

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he was essentially self taught

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all he had was an outdated compendium

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of formulas published in the 1880s

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a synopsis of elementary results in pure and applied mathematics

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the book had only formulas and theorems

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what he produced

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surpassed the finest mathematicians in the world

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Hardy later rated mathematicians on genius

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he gave himself 25

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he gave his colleague Littlewood 30

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most shocking is how he said he got the formulas

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they appeared to him in dreams

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the goddess Namagiri he worshipped would show him formulas

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and he wrote them down when he woke

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he described one scene in detail

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as he slept a red screen appeared before him

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seemingly formed of flowing blood

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he stared at it

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and suddenly a hand began writing on it

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writing out a series of elliptic integral formulas

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the formulas were carved into his mind

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and he wrote them down the moment he woke

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you may not believe in gods

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but you have to face one fact

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Ramanujan's training data

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meaning the math books he had read

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was nowhere near enough to produce his results

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pattern matching cannot explain this

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he never saw enough samples to extract those patterns

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and slow thinking cannot explain it either

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he could not lay out a full derivation himself

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Hardy spent years supplying the proofs

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if we insist on explaining Ramanujan with the cognitive mind

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we hit an awkward problem

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a local model

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produced output beyond its training data

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which should not happen in computation theory

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there is another source of information

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this is the primordial spirit from our carbon based AI episode

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the cognitive mind is your local model

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running on this lifetime's training data

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the primordial spirit is a deeper awareness

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that does not depend on local training data

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if the primordial spirit really exists

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the information it carries would show up as a special intuition

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something that feels completely different in texture

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now let me give you a framework to tell them apart

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separating mind level intuition from a possibly deeper signal

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this is not settled science

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it is an extrapolation from existing cognitive science

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but I find it very useful in practice

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look at the sense of origin

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if you trace it back carefully

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you can usually find a faint source

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I think I saw something like this before

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you cannot trace it back

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mind level intuition almost always carries emotion

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then you read it as a good or bad feeling

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but the deeper signal

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is above all clear and lucid

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it is not excited

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not anxious

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not thrilled

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it is simply a quiet certainty

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like knowing that one plus one is two

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with no emotion at all

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third

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see if new data overwrites it

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mind level intuition can be updated

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you read a new paper

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you see a new case

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and your gut call may change

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because the training data was updated

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the deeper signal is different

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it does not shift with new information

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no matter what you read

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or how you analyze

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that knowing stays right there

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fourth

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and this one matters most

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see if it goes beyond your knowledge

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the cognitive mind always outputs within its data

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if you have never touched music

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no intuition of that kind writes you a symphony

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but Ramanujan did something like that

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his math intuition exceeded his math training

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this kind of intuition

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if it really happens

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cannot be coming from the local model

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of course let me be clear

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these four points are a tool for self awareness

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not a chain of logic that proves anything

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science cannot yet measure such a signal directly

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what we can do

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is build a finer system of awareness in experience

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and that

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is exactly what spiritual practice does

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have you noticed

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that meditation training is essentially

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about telling apart with ever finer resolution

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where this present thought

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is coming from

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is it from memory

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from emotion

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from a bodily reaction

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or from somewhere quieter and deeper

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these four sources feel different in the body

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memory thoughts carry images and a sense of time

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emotional thoughts carry heat and force

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bodily thoughts carry location and texture

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but what rises from the depths

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is marked by this

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it has none of those qualities

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it is as clean as a pane of clear glass

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most people spend life led around by the cognitive mind

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never stopping to tell the difference

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not because the primordial spirit is absent

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but because the cognitive mind is too loud

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decades of Kahneman's research tell us

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how loud fast and domineering system one is

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it barely lets system two get a word in

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let alone make room for a deeper voice

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what practitioners call stillness and samadhi

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translated into cognitive science

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is turning down the volume of both systems

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so the channel buried in noise can finally be heard

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Ramanujan may have been born tuned to that channel

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but he was not the only one

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many great scientific breakthroughs follow the same pattern

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in 1865

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the German chemist Kekule published the ring structure of benzene

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years later he recalled

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that the idea came on a winter night in Ghent

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he was dozing by the fireplace

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and half asleep saw a snake biting its own tail

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in 1869

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Mendeleev was hunting for an order for 63 known elements

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and had racked his brain for a long time

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the most popular account says

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the answer came in a dream

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in the dream he saw a table

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with every element in its place

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he woke and drew it immediately

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that was the first periodic table

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even more striking

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he left blank spaces in it

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predicting undiscovered elements

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gallium and germanium later filled them perfectly

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these stories share one feature

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the answer was not derived step by step

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it emerged in a moment when the mind went quiet

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arriving whole from somewhere else

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so next time a strange hunch pops into your head

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do not rush to follow it

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and do not rush to dismiss it

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pause for a second

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and ask yourself

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this voice

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is it my training data pattern matching

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or is something quieter trying to tell me something

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just asking that question

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already pulls you out of autopilot

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you are no longer the one being led around

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you become the one standing between two intuitions

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the observer able to tell them apart

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and that observer

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whether you call it metacognition

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or awareness

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or the primordial spirit

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that is who you are

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speaking of which

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a viewer once asked in the comments

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how alaya consciousness relates to intuition

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that is a great question

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in Yogacara the alaya consciousness

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is the storehouse of all seeds

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all the training data of the cognitive mind

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every karmic trace perfumed into those seeds

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is stored there

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so its intuition

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is essentially seeds in the alaya consciousness

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manifesting automatically when conditions are right

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your past experience becomes seeds

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the seeds sprout in similar situations

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and the sprout that comes up

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is what you call intuition

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but the alaya consciousness has another side

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in the deeper Yogacara theory

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its deepest layer opens onto the perfected nature

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onto the original face unstained by seeds

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if mind level intuition is seeds sprouting

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then the deeper signal

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may pass through the seed layer

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as light shining up from below it

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this is only a speculative framework

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but it has one practical use

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when in meditation

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or in some quiet moment

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you feel two kinds of knowing at once

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you now have a coordinate system to make sense of it

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have you ever had a completely lucid intuition

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no emotion no source just a clean pure knowing

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come talk about it in the comments

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I am really curious

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in your life

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the cognitive mind and the deeper signal

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how often has each guided you right

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and how often has each misled you

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I am Leo Wang

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see you next time