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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Cosmic Consciousness Test: Deepak Chopra or Erwin Schrödinger?
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(2) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
Full script: Introduction: Well, part two of this series is now finished and uploaded. I really hope you like it. Let me take this opportunity to thank all my patrons. Without you, I would not be able to continue working…
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(1) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
Full script: Introduction: Hello, welcome to Cracking The Nutshell. I would like to take this opportunity, right at the start of the video, to let you know that I need your help to keep running this channel. I’ll be completely…
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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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