Part 4a – Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms – Transcending Stuff to Know Stuff How does the Universe experience itself? Can the Universe transcend itself? Is there such a thing as an absolute universal perspective, an unambiguous God’s eye view of…
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(4a) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
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(3) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
Part 3 – Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms – Transcending Stuff to Know Stuff Can stepping out of reductionist materialism shed some new light on the hard problem of consciousness and the measurement problem? How can Gödel's way of thinking help…
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(1) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
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