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263 - Bernardo Kastrup - The Fall Into Meta-Consciousness

The Symbolic World

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Is Metaconsciousness What Makes Us Similar to God?

Jonathan Inquiry: I've heard you talk about God more as this kind of unconscious or basic consciousness that doesn't have metacognition. And so there's a sense in which conscious metaconsciousness is what brings about the fall but is ultimately which actually makes us similar to God. Jonathan Inquiry: In other words, you're always in the world created for you by the divinity and when you identify yourself as a subject of your experiences they are not different from yours. If you want to know how we can get closer to our true selves then look no further than these two questions.

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