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#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

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The Difference Between Reality and Philosophy

I've been struggling to find the right words and how I feel about that whole thing. The more the appearance starts to be look like the thing, the more there's this area where it's like our whole idea of what is real and what is just an illusion is not the right way to think about it. It feels like if we push the creation, the engineering, like fake it until you make it all the way, which is like fake consciousness until you realize holy crap, this thing is conscious. Fake intelligence until you realizeholy crap, this intelligence. That's my intuition. But philosophers hate that because, and guess what, it's philosophers. What have you actually built? So

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