You know that strange moment: when you know something… but you can't explain it. You can't put it into words.
It's not logic, not even emotion.
It's deeper. It's the SENSE that something is there. Unformed, pre-verbal.
That is the territory I call the noetic dimension: the last layer of my Quantum Framework.
It's not rational, it's not irrational, it's PRE-rational.
It's the space where signals appear before they take the form of language or logic. That instant when you sense something without being able to explain why.
To explore this, I spoke with Nuno Reis. With 18+ years of experience in Finance and a PhD in String Theory, he now works on the frontier of uncertainty.
“It's not just intuition, because intuition already has a pattern. The noetic is rarer, like a glimpse, a portal to another layer of reality. It doesn't fit our logic, yet it resonates deeply.”
TL;DR
- The state of science and the pre-verbal
- The dangerous line between pre-rational and irrational: how do you know you're not delusional?
- From "Matrix" to reality: archetypes as the ultimate tool of the pre-verbal
- How to develop noetic intelligence?
Science and the pre-verbal
Philosophers like Plato spoke of noesis, direct knowledge of truth.
Neuroscientists like Damasio described how the body sends signals before the brain rationalizes them.
And in psychology, Polanyi said it clearly: we know more than we can tell.
As Nuno observed: “Sometimes it's a word, a question, a tension that doesn't fit our system of reasoning. But it pulls us, it won't let go. That's what I call a 'Rare Dot'.”
We're obsessed with data, metrics, and rationality, but we often forget: the most decisive breakthroughs (in science, strategy, art) did NOT start as rational deductions.
They started as something else: a "sense", a disturbance.
The physicist starting to wonder something everyone takes for granted.
The entrepreneur sensing a market shift before anyone else.
The intelligence officer reading a 'gut feeling' in a room.
This form of intelligence is the raw source of what may later become logic, strategy, or vision.
This is why understanding the noetics is strategic:
- It detects the weakest signals, long before they are articulated.
- It gives orientation without fixation on goals.
- It allows us to read the room in ways others can't explain.
As Nuno put it: “It's not about giving answers. It's about building a new operating system. Each person translates their Rare Dots into a language others can resonate with.”
The dangerous line between pre-rational and irrational
One of the dangers of exploring the noetic is confusion: how do you know you're not delusional?
I asked Nuno.