269 - John Vervaeke - After Socrates
The Symbolic World
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Transpersonal Consciousness Is Not Necessary
I'm far more open to the idea of consciousness, transpersonal consciousness because I really don't see any reason apart from that I can't experience it. There's something about agency and consciousness which I find fascinating in some of the secularist type of argument which is that there seems to be a desire to make like the human person very very special in some ways. It doesn't fit in well with any kind of reductive materialism so first of all I think you're arguing a bit strengthened there secondly this has to go right now we're not self-consciousness but not in principle impossible only in fact not the case.
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