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And she showed her interviewer the lyrics she wrote for Luca.

And it was just a piece of paper that she showed.

And she said, this is the first time I wrote it.

And nothing was crossed out.

It was just there.

She...

The lyrics just basically appeared to her and she only had to write them down.

And this is actually not too unusual.

A lot of musicians have one or two of such songs and they're usually their most famous.

Amy McDonald wrote, this is the live in about 15 minutes.

Yeah, it's a wonderful example of an idea that is suddenly there and it's beautiful and it's pure and it's finished.

She didn't have to do much about it.

I think it was both the lyrics and the music were there within minutes.

Yeah, it's a wonderful example of what a creative unconscious can come up with.

This is a tradition in cognitive psychology in the 1980s where people wanted to see, they wanted to study inside problems.

And one example is, I think it goes like this.

So here's a riddle.

Every day, water lilies double the surface area they occupy.

And at the start of the summer, there's only one lily leaf in the lake.

After 60 days, the entire water surface is covered.