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John Vervaeke and Chad the Alcoholic: The Failure of Institutions and Unintended Consequences

The Meaning Code

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Neil Platonism and Zen on the Silk Road

"I'm going to be talking about Neil Platonism from the West and Zen from the East. And what does that mean? So, because those were the two things that sort of act as the lingua franca along the Silk Road," he says. "It's very ambitious and I'll probably be crushed by the gods for my hubris." He adds: "But that's a long way of saying I'm really trying to address this issue you've raised about ... how does it balance between liberation and constraint?"

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