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245 - Prof. Donald Hoffman - Proving Ancient Wisdom Through Mathematics

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Multiplicity in Consciousness?

If a mathematically precise theory of conscious agents could prove that even if the one is in some sense without any competition, all loving and so forth, any finite or projection of itt doesn't include the whole will necessarily lead to what we call evil. I think that that's defferintly, at least it seems, it seems to be. One way out of the paradox may be that mathematically impossible to take a projection of the one consciousness without necessarily inducing these things as ar effacts. But how can that be if that's the source of all things? There's like a deep, there's a deep, a paradox in that problem.

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