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R7.5 The Forms, the Matrix, and AI w/ John Vervaeke

Ancient Greece Declassified

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What's the Common View to Day Thaton?

The common view to day, in so far as people are reflective on it, is something like an implicit physicalism. Cats made this argument a long time ago that is completely symmetrical with a emanation metaphysics. And what's really interesting to my mind in the ne platonic tradition is the recognition of the mutuality of those who say reality is simultaneously at all levels emerging up and at all levels emanating down. This makes a space, to my mind, for plato's theory is the forms, which we can talk about later. I'm not trying to get back and live as plotinus i'm trying to get an onthology thati think is responsive to the fact that

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