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The Origins of Souls
I think a lot of our intuition and the ways we talk about things from a spiritual dimension do reflect reality in interesting ways. I would say that when you wanna approach a hard problem, like why is it that planetary motion looks so regular and apples fall from the sky? Like you don't have a concept of gravity. You have to look abstractly at those phenomena and try to look at what patterns unite them. And if you build a theory based on those kind of properties, it starts to explain these other sorts of features. It's very easy to think about in terms of molecules but that would be the feature I think is more fundamental to what life is.