
Ep. 5 - Plato and the Cave
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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I Don't Smok, but I Do Die It but I Dont Smok
A present stimulus has a large degree of salience to it. Something that's in the future, especially as it gets into the far future, much less salient to it. That's why the monster can override the man. But why? Why do we have this? Well, this is actually very, very adaptive. You should pay less attention to things that are less probable than happening. That actually makes good sense. It's a universal phenomenon. How is it adaptive? So i want you to think about doing, you're, you're about to do something here. And this is what it looks like. This what the curve looks like. Ok? As you move into the future,
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