EP72 Joscha Bach on Minds, Machines & Magic
The Jim Rutt Show
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Is There Anything That Is Smarter Than Us in Nature?
There are brains in nature that are larger than ours. Wails have larger brains, elephants have larger brains. Why is it that whales and elephants are not smarter than us? Because they basically carry these brains around for free. It could be that elephants have massive autism because if they, the non-autistic elephants meditated themselves out of existence. They basically started to understand their role in the universe like very smart monks. And then as a result, they decided that doing office politics all day and having kids and participating in society is just not cutting it. And instead they just go to do something more interesting with their lives like meditating. Who knows? That is the question.
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