Dr. Michael Kilgard

And you go, what are you doing?

We're not catching.

It just means we have the line in the water.

And it might be a fish.

There might not be.

And it may only be 1% of the time you're catching a fish.

It might be one-tenth of a percent of the time you're catching a fish.

But that's enough because the time spent in anticipation and waiting and preparation, those were meaningful times as well.

So I think there's a little bit of a shift toward what are the key parts.

Is it the dopamine hit, the exciting, the novelty part, or is it all that other stuff?

And we're now learning from the training of these networks, all of it matters.

All of those inputs, all those syllables, all the junk words matter.

And so I think that shift toward thinking we know what's important, the stuff we think of as important, that may not be all of it.

All the rest probably plays an important role too.

Yeah.

I mean, to start on the part you ended on, I mean, I really think reflection on these topics – this is another one that was a big surprise – is that –

Thinking about it later also rewires your brain, not just the sleeping part when you're clearly thinking about it and turning over your mind.

But as you're on the way home from the game, as you're planning to drive to the game or the date or the business appointment or whatever it might be.

That idea that it's not this, all the learning doesn't happen at this one moment, but there was some preparation that went into it.

There was the actual event, which often has the friction you're describing, where there's some engagement and decisions are being made, where there's information being transmitted and information being gained.