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225 - John Vervaeke - Angels in Scientific Terms - Part 2

The Symbolic World

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Attributing Consciousness to Ah Beings

Many things can have real agency, like a mitachondria is a real agent. But attributing consciousness to it seems, ah, for many people, a very questionable thing to do. For example, let's use us. You and i can both move between conscious and unconscious states. I can give you ploap, a fall general anaesthetic, and you will fall out of consciousness, right? And then i can bring you out. It's kind of this fractil small world network organization in order to sustain consciousness. If the speed gets too low, the things separate, tey, they, they separate out as separate entities. So most people just have finish the point

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