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259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

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Are We Living in Assimulation?

There's a greater than 50 % probability we're living in inasimulation. The mind does not operate eon statistics. It is not a basian machine. If you accept the journey of the mind, and the mathematical view of consciousness as an activity, then it is not. Both statistics and computer science would assume that our mind has fixed states that interact through fixed probabilities. This is not how the mind works. There are no fixed states. The mind is constantly creating new states. A state in the mind, it could be a zero. It could be one at the same time. Entirely talking about them in terms of states or zeros and ones, does not apply

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