Mental Proliferation, with Isabela Granic
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
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The Buddhists and the Buddha's Proliferation
I wonder if this is a similar impulse that the Buddhists or Buddha himself the Buddha himself were activating when they were trying to put terms so eight terms for you know whether it's mental proliferation or different mind states basically right and if there's some similar thing when you are naming gods. The self as well as proliferating concepts and abstractions are probably relatively recent we can see some of them coming together especially in this late Bronze Age, he says. Right sorry no no don't be sorry I am going to try and argue that this proliferation thing is new it actually requires it is itself a cultural artifact or whatever you want to call it and subject to cultural evolution.
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