Today’s episode explores gestalt processing as an ancestral form of human intelligence that prioritises holistic patterns over fragmented data. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, describes a cognitive experience where conclusions arrive fully formed, forcing a retrospective translation into the incremental logic demanded by modern society. This “older way of knowing” stands in stark contrast to contemporary metrics and rigid analytical rules that value numbered steps over intuitive coherence. By framing this mindset as a predigital legacy rather than a cognitive flaw, she challenges the dominance of algorithmic reasoning. Ultimately, she suggests that valuing the entirety of a situation is a vital human capability that predates the historical obsession with record-keeping.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-last-mind-before-the-ledger
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