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204 - John Vervaeke - Collective Intelligence: Angels in Scientific Terms

The Symbolic World

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Is Attention Constraint of Possibility?

If you think of things like a ancient law, like ancient roman law, the way that it worked, there were two aspects of the system. The toritas and potestas - one was an explicit set of rules which is lacking the more direct part of it. And the other one was what we call 'attention' It's trying to disclose the affordances by which we can more properly come into conformity or transform transformative relationship with reality.

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