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Everything Is Mind (w/Dr. Bernardo Kastrup)

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The Evolution of Metacognition

"If this is a mind, why isn't there just magic everywhere? I would invite you to explore it from a different angle," he says. "I don't see good reasons to project onto the rest of nature a cognitive, a higher cognitive capacity that we have evolved at great cost after three and a half billion years on this planet." The question of why arose with metacognition. And arguably, we may be the only metacognitive animals around that think symbolically... We are not because we have evolved this ability to objectify our own subjectivity".

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