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245 - Prof. Donald Hoffman - Proving Ancient Wisdom Through Mathematics

The Symbolic World

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The Parasitic Agency

In this theory of consciosne, i imagine there is also a sense in which we share in consciousness. So when consciousness lets itself get lost, it loses its own identity and thinks that it's some little thing. By letting myself get lately lost and end doing evil things, competing and and all that stuff, then waking up eventually ive, i realized that i transcend that. And i take my head set off, and the others take their heads set off, we find out we're the same. We shake our hands and move on. I think that there is one sense in which i could say you and i are the same consciousness. Hat there is, in some sense a

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