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Teleology of the Universe - Philip Goff, Galileo's Error

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Order of the Cosmos

I think that people are drawn towards ultimate liberty in the sense of not being bounded by anyone's judgment of what can and cannot be believed in. So you have in conflict these two very strong desires one which is liberty and enlightenment and freedom and the biocosmest ideal of live forever go anywhere. The ability to do all of those things gives you this yawning deep sense of agony inside the spirit because meaning comes actually from pruning the tree of possibility and shareYeah sharing with sharing yeah and sharing in that pruning together it's this group project of we will believe in these things and we will not believe in these other things as part of a community.

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