Curt Jaimungal and Leo Gura explore infinite consciousness, god realization, free will, and love, weaving together physics, philosophy, and personal experience. The conversation dives into nondualism, solipsism, psychedelics, and moral questions while questioning the nature of reality.
- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:04:15 - Disclaimers + physicalism vs nondualism
- 00:10:12 - Truth is merciless + developing one's own Weltanschauung
- 00:14:05 - Embodying a philosophy
- 00:22:35 - Chris Langan, the CTMU, and Distributed Solipsism
- 00:27:08 - Physics and consciousness depend on one another
- 00:32:36 - Reality is a dream and truth
- 00:45:12 - Epi-consciousness and Gödel's incompleteness theorem
- 01:11:02 - Epistemology, nescience vs ignorance, and hierarchies
- 01:27:25 - Using language is delusive and deficient
- 01:30:49 - The two kinds of "love"
- 01:43:19 - Being precise with one's words
- 01:59:25 - Free will
- 02:15:23 - The reason the universe was created
- 02:23:55 - Creation and destruction (the same? different?)
- 02:30:03 - Paradoxes and contradictions
- 02:41:34 - Meditative exercise for God realization
- 02:55:56 - On Donald Hoffman
- 03:08:15 - Steelmanning the materialist (how do you insights from psychedelics are true?)
- 03:19:34 - Ego, and free will
- 03:26:43 - Leo's own self-deception
- 03:29:37 - The "woo" of paranormal healers and psychics (Leo's personal stories)
- 03:49:50 - On Sam Harris' morality and the Moral Landscape
- 04:01:35 - Experimentations with psychedelics
- 04:09:42 - How to not have a bad trip / become suicidal from nihilism
- 04:19:05 - On attachment (beneficial or not?)
- 04:22:51 - Thomas Campbell
- 04:30:31 - Bernardo Kastrup
- 04:33:47 - Frank Yang
- 04:51:28 - Raymond Smullyan (excerpt reading by Curt)
- 05:03:49 - Curt is too selfish to have a TOE
- 05:05:52 - When you realize you're God, the universe ends
- 05:09:11 - Why use the term "God"?
- 05:12:58 - Principle of impermanence not impermanent?
- 05:14:39 - Proof that you have free will
- 05:19:49 - "Everyone has good intentions"
- 05:23:08 - Hate comes from love
- 05:31:45 - Interview with Matthew Phillips of Transcend
SPONSORS:
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- Better Left Unsaid documentary: http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com
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