
Ep 16: Ch 9, Part 1: "Optimism"
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Is There Aliens Out There?
I think there's a qualitative difference between us, who can explain the world and form explanatory theories about the world, which enable us to gain control of the world. Every other animal that we know of that exists that doesn't form any explanations and is a victim of its environment, ratherthan controller of the environment. This is a slark difference. All other animals are on some kind of continue em if you like, in the ways in which they can respond to the environment around them. They can't explain it, d they can't control it, but some can respond better than others. There's very little that a bacteria can do if the environment responds much an individual bacteria is going to
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