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(1) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Carl Sagan, Douglas Hofstadter, Edwin Abbott, epistemology, Flatland, Gödel Escher Bach, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, introspection, intuition, knowledge, Kurt Gödel, limits of logic, limits of mathematics, limits of science, limits of understanding, mathematics, Mysticism, paradox, Paul Davies, proof, rational thinking, Science, self-growth, self-reference, the Self, transcendence, truth
Minds From Brains or Brains from Mind? Belief Boxes, Reality and the Self
Script: 1. The Belief Box "Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." Arthur Schopenhauer “Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the…
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