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Avi Loeb on Consciousness, UAPs, AI, CE5, Jacques Vallée, and Time Travel

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is Time Travel a Good Approximation to God?

Avi Avman: If we find a civilization that let's say is a million years ahead of us in technological development their technologies would appear to us as a good approximation to god. Whatever we assign to a divine entity in religious and philosophical texts would apply to whatever we find from them, he says. In traditional religion god is this eternal being that was there from the beginning if there was such a thing as the quote-unquote beginning. And so there is a way of unifying an entity that was part of spiritual practice an entity that is much more capable than we are which is pretty much god you know like something that is capable of doing things that we cannot imagine even getting close to

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