290 - John Vervaeke - How to See the End of the World
The Symbolic World
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The Importance of Prediction
"I don't know what's going to happen, but I have an orientation which is to say, or something like, I know that God wants the best of me," he said. "That mode of anticipation is the best mode to stand in in order to face whatever horrible thing the future has in front of you." He says we've tried since enlightenment to convince ourselves that we can capture uncertainty with risk calculation. But there's a lot of uncertainty and if there's real emergence, then there's real Uncertainty.
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