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Unleashes Creativity in This Daydreaming Keynote  Through this
daydreaming keynote, psychologist Jonathan Schooler considers
the possibilities created from mind-wandering. First, Schooler
shows how science is at a risk of hubris by often treating
people as objects leading us to disregard the internal thoughts
and feelings of those they study. What often goes unstudied and
unacknowledged because of this is the ubiquitous form of mental
cognition which is mind-wandering. This happens when people are
engaged in thoughts that have nothing to do with what is going
on.  Schooler demonstrates that people who have a meta-awareness
of their own mind-wandering turn out to be especially creative
individuals. It is often during these daydreaming periods that
ideas occur to us, yet in order to make them useful, people need
to notice that it turns