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Demons & the Machine, John Vervaeke & Jonathan Pageau

Rebel Wisdom

CHAPTER

The Collective Intelligence and the Absolutization of It

Gnosticism is about freedom and the absolutization of it. All limitations are physical limitations in our body, right? We're going to maybe kirts vile. Or i canmerge with my avotar. And like, there's all these pseudo transcendents that's everywhere - but they don't justify themselves as being closer to reality than we already are. The problem with words is words can be marked or unmarked just quickly. These are ennabling constraints, limits, not onlyn. You have to hear the term in an unmarked they're also affording you. I'm a critique. I criticize this. Propositions limit us. But language also enables

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