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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What is Physical? – Crumbling Physicalism
When Physical Became Synonym with “You’ve Got to Take This Seriously” Full script: First Part: Physicalism: the ontological thesis that everything is physical or that the real world consists only of physical entities. In other words, physicalism is the position…
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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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