
Things Get Trippy
Young Heretics
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The Illusion of a Soul
There's a very pervasive argument or narrative out there that this kind of soul, this aspect of our nature, which consists in the quality of our experiences is not able to be boiled down into neurons firing. Yuval Harari says we have a stream of consciousness that seems to just randomly happen at the same time as our bodies and minds are working like machines. The thing that is you that Konski Antia, the Eagle, the Watch or the Self-awareness, the Soul doesn't change when you go from being happy to being sad. That means that it is immortal, that means that it stands outside of time and that mean that it is free because if it doesn't change automatically
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