On 5/20/20 9:39 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> This frames this type of dream experience (for me) as a sort of post-hoc
> storytelling-as-experience.

Same here. It reminds me that someone, here, recently mentioned famous people 
coming up with solutions to problems while distracted with other tasks (was it 
Erdös?) and of the falsificationist concept (Popper?) focusing on science being 
*open*. It doesn't really matter AT ALL where an idea comes from. What matters 
is that it's formulated and tested. So that's yet another reason a dream study 
would only be well-designed as a study of story-telling.

There are implications in that for things like intelligence, creativity, 
innovation, and education. If we assume everyone has brain farts like 
Einstein's or Penrose's or whoever, then what matters is these people's ability 
to *harness* (or harvest?) those brain farts and tell a story about them.

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