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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Mimetic Theory of Desire

Don't you think we humans are deceiving ourselves about our uniqueness? Perhaps it doesn't just, isn't there some sense in which this emergence just creates different higher and higher levels of abstraction where every layer, each organism feels unique? Is that possible? That we're all equally dominant at different scales? No, I think uniqueness is evolving. And I think that highly k-selected species are more unique than our selected species.

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