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#174 — Life & Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Genetic Book of the Dead

The 'genetic book of the dead' describes ancestral worlds in which ancestors survived. It's a genetically inscribed solution to problems that our ancestors have successfully solved exactly. In principle it should be possible, in such some future date, for a knowledgeable geneticis to read the genome of an individual and actually read off a description of the worlds in which the ancestors of that animal lived.

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