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The Fundamentals of Reality

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Hardest Thing About Reality

An early and striking version of this was democritus, who said, in opinion, you have tastes and colors in hot and cold, but in reality, it's just atoms in the void. These different versions of real don't conflict with each other. They we, they they're all describing the same world. And it's actually a great adventure to try to connect them up. That's why i said the hardest thing about reality for me to understand is how i'm part of it.

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