Jim Gates
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Wasn't that, was Von Neumann, the one Von Neumann?
Yeah, because we've all had aha moments where it seems like something just comes to us, right?
Yes.
Where there's like the...
the sum of whatever that is is way greater than all the inputs.
Yeah, and then you have dreams where you're processing all of the inputs from the previous day to help you.
Your dreams are literally mathematical.
What do you mean?
You had looked at this the day before?
And you were able to do this in your mind and you corroborated it with a computer?
Your student did.
And what types of equations were these?
The 300 Correlators?
Wow.
And there's been many times where you've done something similar by going to sleep and dreaming about it.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the crazy thing about the human mind and consciousness is it's...
that we haven't figured it out.
And it does seem like magic in many cases.
Yeah.