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Gregg Henriques - The Problem of Psychology

Elevating Consciousness

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The Dimension of Mind

In the Cambrian explosion, about 550 million years ago, there's a tremendous transformation in the organization of animal body plans. They go from things like planaria worms, which have like a bilateral potty plan and a brain to complex active bodies that essentially look like crabs. And then we see the evolution of things like crabs over a 500 million year period all up to things like chimpanzees, five million years ago. This is the dimension of mind. The dimension before is thedimension of life. So you get material objects, living organisms, now minded animals. And then about 500,000 years ago, you get a transformation in the human organization. Start making cool hand axes and doing weird shit

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