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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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The Monkey and the Elephant

I think we're a bunch of lions and tigers that have become domesticated cats to use a different metaphor. Because I'm not exactly sure we're so destructive, we're just softer and nicer and lazier. And if you look at the monkeys, they are very busy. The ones that have a lot of sex, those monkeys? Not just the bonobos. I think that all the monkeys are basically a discontent species that always needs to meddle.

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