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263 - Bernardo Kastrup - The Fall Into Meta-Consciousness

The Symbolic World

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The Rise of Symbolic Thinking in Humans

Only very recently has it been discovered that the rise of symbolic thinking in humans occurred only 30 to 50,000 years ago. What a beautiful metaphor for when you are expelled from the web of instinct. It raises the question how did the Jews exiled in Babylon to an half thousand years ago come up with that stuff? How on earth could they?

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