Emily McDonald

And so it's like as soon as you try to start describing yourself with words and you put language on it, you kind of take its power away.

And so that's kind of my first part about knowing myself and identity.

That's great.

I had a moment actually, before we go into the DMN, I had a moment not that long ago where I was thinking about the neuroscience of intuition, right?

And I think from the deterministic kind of reductionist standpoint, you can think of intuition, you know, a lot of scientists will say, you know, it's, you know, the nervous system in your gut, it's the enteric nervous system, or maybe it's your programming.

And they've shown that when your nervous system is dysregulated or you're stressed, you have low heart rate variability, your intuition is less accurate.

right?

And so I know from personal experience, right?

And I've developed this.

I remember when I first learned about this while I was in my PhD, actually, I was like, oh, wait, you can go into meditation and just ask a question and the answer can come.

That's so cool.

And I was like, I don't think that's something I can do.

I was like, oh, that's something that you're born with.

That's not a power that I could develop.

That's a power.

And then through practice, I actually have been able to develop that.

And while yes, you can say that there is

Like you can scan someone's brain while they have a moment like that and say this certain neural activity is the representation of that intuition and say that the neural activity drove it.

You can't say what drove that neural activity necessarily.

You can't say whether it was the universe or God or whatever terminology you want to use.