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Ep. 37 - Reverse Engineering Enlightenment: Part 2

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Myth of Existential Inertia

Existential inertia is when you need to move between world views make a world view viable that you're not currently in. Then of course there's existential ignorance a point made salient by L.A. Paul and also picked up by Agnes Callard in her book on aspiration. We can't sort of reason our way through this we can't infer our way from a weaker logic to a stronger logic, so these things are interacting and exacerbating each other.

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