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204 - John Vervaeke - Collective Intelligence: Angels in Scientific Terms

The Symbolic World

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What Is Joint Attention?

We seem to search out places and moments where we can all attend to similar things. And that seems for good and ill, right? Atsyou i have the image of hitler, you know, it like a hundred thousand people all standing in front of him and just giving him all their attention an and in acting as like a catalyst for something insane. It's not just sort of fastionism. The reason why we like numbers is because numbers allow us to coordinate the senses. Three allows us to bind the senses together. Think about how this works, both internally and externally, and how they reinforce each other.

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