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225 - John Vervaeke - Angels in Scientific Terms - Part 2

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Consciousness There?

Pye: I can perceive that multiplicity my body exists in an analogical way to the manner in which multiple players in a team, ore multiple aspects of a city, will come together manifest their unity. Because it's the same with tesay in terms of pushing a table, which is that there is a sense in which my hand is that which pushes the table. Andand that's the original argument made for a sort of extended mind by thomers and clark in a very famous article that has generated endless controversy. Pye: Most people who talk about wee agency and collective intelligence do not think there is a consciousness there or any kind of self awareness.

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