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Everything Is Mind (w/Dr. Bernardo Kastrup)

The ZDoggMD Show

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The Dissociative Aspect of Life

For me, life is just the appearance of dissociation. What defines it is what we call metabolism. And a virus doesn't metabolize by itself. So my personal disposition is to put the boundary just above virus particles. In other words, they are not alive. But of course, nature is a continuum. We try to establish these sharp boundaries because dissociation has to have a sharp boundary. If you go down enough that you can no longer stand alone metabolism, then I don't think that reflects a dissociative process in nature anymore.

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