Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
Homer's the Odyssey Is Not Just a Voyage It's a Return Home
I've been trying to think how it evokes the Odyssey and the thing that's confusing about the Odyssey Homer's the Odyssey is that one essential element of it isn't just an adventure but a return home. When he goes into this landscape now it's back to a more fluid flowing you know multi-colored kind of experience where there's no sharp distinctions between things, like paint and the splats. This makes me think Sam of like some of the ways that people on your app and you describe like consciousness awareness like consciousness in its contentsbut it's all just part of the same thing made of the same stuff. I thought that this was kind of getting back to with Dave now that the
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