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263 - Bernardo Kastrup - The Fall Into Meta-Consciousness

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Sense in Which the Meta Consciousness Is Part of the Creation of World?

The Bible does suggest that the creation the creator divinity was metacomcious insofar as it could pass value judgment. Based on a purely analytic approach, the natural sciences and no empirical evidence, rational thinking I would say we have every reason to believe that the broader mind of nature, mind at large, is not meetingacomcious. It seems to be an ability that evolved at great cost through eons of evolution by natural selection. The divine mind or the mind of nature that especially unbound field of subjectivity that underlies our nature did not have to put up with the challenges of a local ecosystem. So it wouldn't have metacomconsciousness.

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