Brain, Mind, and the Matrix of Innovation (Bernardo Kastrup) – Video

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Brain, Mind, and the Matrix of Innovation (Bernardo Kastrup)
This is a content-rich, fast-paced presentation about the nature of the creative process and its relationship to the mind-body problem. Are innovative ideas generated algorithmically by the brain? Or is brain activity, in fact, an obstacle to creative insight? An intriguing pattern in revealed in this presentation: Creative insight correlates precisely with a reduction of brain activity. Many cases are reviewed to substantiate this pattern: accidental savants, psychedelic trances, brain damage, hyperventilation, meditation, acceleration- and strangulation-induced loss of consciousness, traditional ordeals and initiatory rituals, transcranial magnetic stimulation, etc. The presentation concludes with the surprising idea that, analogously to how lightning is merely the image of the process of electric discharge, the brain is not the cause of mind but an image of the process of mind constriction. As such, the path to creative insight is a de-clenching, a relaxation of brain activity, not its increase. This video is an edited excerpt from a longer recording of the Innomarketing event (innomarketing.nl held on 20-November-2012 at the High-Tech Campus Eindhoven. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the Innomarketing organization. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Many, if not most, procedures aiming at reducing brain activity can be potentially dangerous and even fatal. This presentation is not meant to encourage anyone to carry out risky activities. The author disclaims any ...

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