Ap Dijksterhuis
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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The overarching sort of theory, philosophical theory in in psychology and neuroscience these days is that your brain is basically a prediction machine.
What we are doing with our brains is we continuously update a prediction of what is going to happen in the near future and and also in a somewhat more distant future.
We we try to predict things.
Uh
You know, if you want to be creative, you have to almost like like challenge that prediction machine.
You have to show it things that it doesn't predict.
It makes your brain more flexible, it leads to new associations.
And how do you do that?
Well, there's various things to do it.
One is indeed art.
You know, other art is uh challenging your prediction machine, it's confronting yourself with something that you don't expect.
Another good way is, you know.
know, to to go and travel to very distinct cultures.
Or to talk to very, very um inspiring people, you know.
But yes, art art begets art.
Art is something that it challenges your prediction machine and it and that causes creativity.
Yeah, it's a wonderful example of how such a clear uh form of inspiration from your unconscious, especially during sleep, is quite rare, but it's not unheard of.
And this is a wonderful example.
And it happened to me actually um
roughly a year ago where I had a dream uh that that in in that dream I I felt the urge to write a children's book about the upcoming fascism in, you know, various countries around the world.
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