263 - Bernardo Kastrup - The Fall Into Meta-Consciousness
The Symbolic World
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The Order of the Universe Is a Human Projection
The order of the universe is a projection of spontaneous human intelligence. I decided to play three chess matches without calculating. Just following my intuition, and the results were well above my illustrating. And then I started believing in this, and I played the fourth game totally spontaneous and I lost miserably. It's definitely very powerful. But if you indulge in it too much, you can step on minds. So the ideal situation is how to find a balance between explicit intelligence where you take your steps of reasoning explicitly, and cross check them. Finding that balance is the key to being successful in many aspects of life - not only at playing chess.
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