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263 - Bernardo Kastrup - The Fall Into Meta-Consciousness

The Symbolic World

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Are the Spark Plugs Part of the Car?

The difference between the river and the ocean is an important distinction because you can drink from the river, you can't drink from the ocean. It's a purposeful distinction, one which fits our purposes as conscious agents. For instance, there is a subset of existence that we call a car. And we say, well, the car ends here in the surface of the tires and whatever. Why do you say arbitrary? It's a functional.

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