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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Ideology of Postmodernism

An ideology is basically a viral mimeplex that is changing your mind in such a way that reality gets warped. It's usually normative, which means some thoughts are unthinkable because they would change your identity into something that is no longer acceptable. And this cuts you off from considering an alternative and many defacto religions use this trick to lock people into a certain mode of thought.

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