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Karl Friston on the Perils of Investigations into Consciousness, Derealization, and the Free Energy Principle

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

The Joint Hypothesis That I Am in a State of Nihilism and Anxiety

"I can literally raise my levels of anxiety in exactly the same way, but invisibly from the outside," he says. "If you got yourself caught up into this joint hypothesis, I mean a nihilistic existential state, and I should be really worried about this." He adds that by letting your body calm down so there is no further evidence of an anxiety, 'you can secure evidence'

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