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

The Symbolic World

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The Internet Is Not Omnipresent, but It's Omnipresent

I think that the internet is at least something like a greek god in the way it encompasses people's lives. The more attention, the more people give t to the internet in general, the more that it will especially in its useor inter face and ovosy ther. And so we can say that the internet has intelligence, even to the extent and agency,. Even to the extent that it just ries to self perpetuate. I'm not saying it's omnipresent, but it's ubiquitous, right? It's asking for devotion. Its asking for identification. You identify with your avatars and your right ther's.

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