290 - John Vervaeke - How to See the End of the World
The Symbolic World
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The Icon of Wisdom in the Christian Tradition
In the Stoic, it's like a virtue in the sense that it's a principle. In Christianity, it's something, it's someone that you follow. The imaginary is not real. Most of your perception of this floor is imaginal, right? You're imagining it, but it's not hallucery because the imaginations are true. If I want to walk across this floor, the sensory motor loop is too slow. So my top-down processing is actually predicting I'm imagining most of the floor. That gives me the capacity to walk quickly across. This hypostasis also means substance and principle. We've reduced it to our lock-in notion of what a person is
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