Emily McDonald
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Podcast Appearances
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.
You can't necessarily say what drove it.
And so that's where, for me, I think, yeah, I think it's really cool to walk that line of science.
I mean, in my personal opinion, I view science as a tool and a lens through which you can look at life, but it's not the only lens that you can look at life through.
And I think the more lenses you look at life throughβ
the better view that you can have and the more holistic perspective that you can have.
And that's where you actually can start to gain that better understanding.
Yeah.
Life loses its magic.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I think it's okay to just say we don't know.
It's okay to just be like, I have no idea, because then you just get to decide for yourself what you want it to be.
And I think that's really fun, and that's a power that we've been given as human beings, that we have this amazing superpower where we get to choose meaning.
And not all species have that.
We have that.