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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Origins of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
I find this very kind of liberating to expand our conception of what intelligent beings are. The muse is trying to give a little hint of its existence. Julian James writes a great book, The Origins of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. When you're reading ancient Greek and Latin for that matter, you can't read it very long without bumping up against these discarded entities. They're everywhere. And they, they survived. I think about whether aliens could be thoughts. Ideas we have are the aliens; consciousness itself is the methods by which aliens communicate with us.
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