[ilrwbwrkhv]

I broke a 10 year spell of entrepreneurial failure with vase breathing, kaballah and rituals. I am an atheist. But there is something about the idea about the aether containing ideas which you can pluck from. Einstein and company were fond of it too. The mind is like a radio and all that. Point being, this year I had $4 million profits / taxable income. Pure rationality just wasn't enough.

[mxmbrb]

Beeing determined is the limiting trait in healthy educated humans. If we can fix this by culture, devices or drugs, humanity will take its bigges leap since the invention of machines and evolve into an never before seen powerhouse of technology, compassion, creativity and innovation.

[Terretta]

We're becoming fine with LLMs and other models having emergent aka "insightful" or "creative" properties, but not with the brain emergently generating concepts?

[adrianN]

Don't attribute to magic what can also be attributed to luck.

[ilrwbwrkhv]

Sure. But I haven't had luck in the past? I think it is a bit more than that. I think it is alchemical change of an entire person. The philosopher's stone is less important than the actual whole personhood change. And once you go down this path you will realize, it is not some one off magical event. It is rather a change of state. That is why it is so hard to explain and test for.

[tmp60beb0ed]

Can you say more?

[ilrwbwrkhv]

Sure. Anything particular?

Basically, it is all about mindset and filters right? You have better ideas about things your mind focuses on which is sold as the "law of attraction". But you can get to a state where ideas are free flowing and make sense in the context of the problem when the mind has had the chance to break free from the usual loops it is running. All these activities I mentioned essentially do that in a way which doesn't make sense to the rational brain so it can't cordon it off. This Quora answer might also help: https://qr.ae/prWLjc