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Seodan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 While reading your post, I had to think of this podcast with Donald Hoffman: Academia old-school science catching up with 'spirituality' about our existence. Beautiful all these rabbit holes these days 🙏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7z26d8IsUc
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Buddha | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I’ll watch it! Thanks for sharing
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Seodan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My pleasure, mate .. enjoy! I listened to it while building a natural stonewall the other day 🤯
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Buddha | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Listening as we speak. I agree already. I was saying the other day that the brain evolved to keep us safe and alive.. not to seek truth. This aligns a lot with those thoughts.
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Seodan | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Great! Yeah, I think so, too. The brain has evolved as a superbe survival tool in a three-dimensional reality and we'd do good to understand its functions and limits. But it isn't creating consciousness, isn't able to by itself perceive the whole.