So conditions during the depression here in the United States were much worse than they are today. Subjectively , it was a much more optimistic period.Today, it's kind of striking to see the anger, hopelessness.
So, for example, I subjectively experience my life as continuous. I subjectively experience myself as a single entity. But you can quibble a lot about what it means to be a single entity if there's no point where all information kind of comes together,
intuitions and that applies to political forecasters and to stock pickers and to all of us. Quite frequently we have intuitions that are false. And they come up and come to mind and they are subjectively undistinguishable from expert intuitions. So I'm now talking of people who have intuitions that are not based on expertise. And they come. They're System 1 in the sense that they are effortless and automatic. And where do they come from? And that is what I'm going to try to illuminate, shed some light on in the rest of the talk. So I want
not cognition but subjectivity. uh what he called psychical reality, that part of reality that is subjectively experienced. But just to set the table a little bit more, give a little background on Freud.
And nevertheless, when people were shifting their attention fast, we saw their stress increase. And when asked subjectively , people report feeling more stressed. And this is using well-validated psychological instruments to ask about stress.
And what's cool is that I'm noticing that-- and it was sort of my hope, after I wrote the book-- that people are relating to it personally. They're subjectively looking at my stories and going, oh, I can subjectively , the reader, take that instance from McConaughey's story into my life. And I actually have a similar parable.
And the reason for that is, we don't want judges to be arbiters of what's art. We don't want judges to decide subjectively , "this is a creative work, and this isn’t." And so, from within the system of copyright, that actually makes a lot of sense, but when you use the same word in a colloquial sense and say you want to encourage creativity, through copyright law, you're using a totally different word
Probably I called you on your birthday, or I just called you. And I think, more subjectively , the self-reported effects of , et cetera.
And I'm going to talk about how to do that now. Enriching, subjectively , is like having a large, sustained, powerful, intense experience.
and a third way is what we call intuition, or direct experience. And so the idea is when we experience it subjectively , that's the deepest way of knowing or intuition. So information, intelligence, and direct experience.
kind of doing the wrong thing and they just suppress their own judgments um or does the crowd change how you see these question the first time what that means is subjectively you made the choice that you thought your odds were better to win
is that uh you know humans uh have had enormous creative capacities. If you go back in history uh we have created amazing things right including AI. And uh so for us the starting point is uh that creative capacity that we as humans have but also the fact that we subjectively experience the world around us. We are sitting here you know looking at uh the room around us uh and uh that context of that world experience which is highly subjective uh and uh we have our own life world experiences uh that's very important to recognize because that brings the kind of context uh in terms of how we
And it was possible to have some achievements, which didn't end the depression, but softened the edges, and made it look as if we can create a better future. So objectively much worse, but subjectively , much better. And then of course, in the background was what was happening in Europe, the spread of fascism, which was very frightening.
subjective reports with objective uh and if the two things go together regularly then you know you just have to accept well this is the this is the the same thing that's being subjectively reported from the inside. the the experience of it looked at from the outside. You know, this is the physiology of it and and
dream in different phases of sleep? Uh we dream in every phase of sleep, but REM sleep it feels people subjectively feel like they're very deeply asleep during REM sleep, but it's actually a much more active phase of sleep. Your your brain looks almost like it's awake and uh
And I'm going to talk about how to do that now. And then we move into the installation phase, which has two subjectively and objectively distinct aspects.
And I'm going to talk about how to do that now. It's enriched. Absorbing, subjectively , it's like receiving it into yourself, giving over to it, feeling like literally it's sinking in, like almost
Yes. And often, it makes a strong case that they're not quite true, even if it doesn't go so far as to prove a lack of qualia. So, for example, I subjectively experience my life as continuous. I subjectively experience myself as a single entity.
they say absolutely this is an extremely intelligent animal. So, yeah, just subjectively , I'm absolutely certain they're intelligent.
It means something to be biracial in the world. Because you become this kind of racial referee, and you're looking at the world sometimes very subjectively , but sometimes very objectively. And that is what fed the partnership, is having the same nomenclature about how we do process, or how we do comedy, the process of how we do comedy,
And in this sense, the Vedas, and particularly the "Bhagavad Gita," explain how we can subjectively
Now when you say I hear the sound, most people honestly, they're not really subjectively referring to the brain.
The change in positive mood that was identified in the depression study is of an order of magnitude that would be consistent with people actually subjectively feeling better in themselves.
There isn't a single thing I'm about to show you that is subject to objective proof. I'm gonna show you what I have learned subjectively over about 36 years or so doing what I do.
to be skeptical of the naive conception of a soul. We know that almost everything we take ourselves to be, subjectively , all of our cognitive powers, our ability to understand
this way you know we can sort of triangulate or or constrain uh the subjective reports with objective uh and if the two things go together regularly then you know you just have to accept well this is the this is the the same thing that's being subjectively reported
subjective being. In other words, not behavior, not language, not perception, not cognition but subjectivity. uh what he called psychical reality, that part of reality that is subjectively experienced.