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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(3) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
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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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The Clockwork Universe
Who are You in a Deterministic, Materialistic, Reductionistic & Objectively Real World? And the day came when man conceived of a materialistic, deterministic, reductionistic, objectively real clockwork universe made of space, time, energy and matter governed by fixed, unchanging physical…
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