The very moment when a perfect solution arrives in the brain may now be boiled down to a series of synapses. New YorkercontributorJonah Lehrer breaks down the science of insight.
Sometimes at night when I wake up I'll find a line for a poem or an image I want. And sometimes I feel I have an incite and it isn't. I think that may be an incite to realize I can fool myself. I really like your book, 'Proust was a Neuroscientist.'
Aug. 07 2008 06:46 PM
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Basia Mosinski
from Brooklyn
I was in the classroom teaching a video editing class to undergraduate students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At that moment, I understood how editing software could be an effective element in treatment for diminishing the impact of flashbacks in someone suffering from PTSD. I was a teacher with an MFA but I was also a MA (in Art Therapy) student interning at the Marjorie Kovler Center for Survivors of Torture, also in Chicago. I am now living in New York putting the pieces together to eventually conduct a study.
Aug. 07 2008 11:05 AM
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O
from Forest Hills
Do dreams we have at night play a part of focusing on insight?
I know for me, sometimes I have certain dreams and when I wake up I get an insight about how to proceed in the situation I was dreaming about.
Aug. 07 2008 10:58 AM
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tilman
from nycity
Standing atop a tall factory, long abandoned and silent, and seeing mile upon mile of empty rotting buildings in upstate NY---I realized that giving our manufacturing base to China & elsewhere is the root of our economic malaise.
Aug. 07 2008 10:58 AM
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Tami
from New Jersey
That Dodge guy must have read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie. Her parents did the same thing in a prairie fire - they set an escape fire all around their house.
Aug. 07 2008 10:53 AM
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Robert
from NYC
I haven't really had any great ideas yet but I know, I KNOW that if I ever do have a great idea it will come from my great and brilliant mind. I just know that, I can feel it.
Aug. 07 2008 10:49 AM
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Sometimes at night when I wake up I'll find a line for a poem or an image I want. And sometimes I feel I have an incite and it isn't. I think that may be an incite to realize I can fool myself. I really like your book, 'Proust was a Neuroscientist.'
I was in the classroom teaching a video editing class to undergraduate students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At that moment, I understood how editing software could be an effective element in treatment for diminishing the impact of flashbacks in someone suffering from PTSD. I was a teacher with an MFA but I was also a MA (in Art Therapy) student interning at the Marjorie Kovler Center for Survivors of Torture, also in Chicago. I am now living in New York putting the pieces together to eventually conduct a study.
Do dreams we have at night play a part of focusing on insight?
I know for me, sometimes I have certain dreams and when I wake up I get an insight about how to proceed in the situation I was dreaming about.
Standing atop a tall factory, long abandoned and silent, and seeing mile upon mile of empty rotting buildings in upstate NY---I realized that giving our manufacturing base to China & elsewhere is the root of our economic malaise.
That Dodge guy must have read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie. Her parents did the same thing in a prairie fire - they set an escape fire all around their house.
I haven't really had any great ideas yet but I know, I KNOW that if I ever do have a great idea it will come from my great and brilliant mind. I just know that, I can feel it.
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