Ap Dijksterhuis
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549 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Ap Dijksterhuis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was really almost a universal scientist.
But one of the things he did was indeed Fuchsian equations.
There he worked on, I think, for seven or eight years already.
And he made some progress, but there was a big puzzle that he couldn't solve.
Then at a day where he wasn't going to work, he was in the countryside doing something completely different.
And he stepped on a bus.
And the moment he stepped on the bus, almost the exact millisecond, he saw the solution.
He just knew it.
And it felt like it came out of nowhere, but he knew the solution.
Yeah.
If you have one of those sudden flashes of insight or inspiration, it feels like it comes out of nowhere.
And for a long time, people believed these insights came from God or in the old Greek days, the time of the old Greek philosophers, they thought it came from muses, the nine goddesses.
And Poincaré was probably the first one who explicitly said, you know, it came from your brain, but it's in an area of your brain.
where you just can't reach.
And at a certain point, you have this sudden flash of insight
Yeah, these sudden bursts of inspirations are wonderful in different ways.
One of them is indeed, if scientists have these ideas, yes, they feel absolutely right.
And some people describe these moments of insight basically as love.
They give you a lot of energy at the same time.
And the third thing is that it feels almost magical.
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