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Terrence Deacon: Origins of Life, Consciousness, Entropy, and Sentience

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The Objective Reality of Values

Our physical theories may just be abstract thoughts, but they do have real value and affect our thinking. The relation to the self makes things objective and subjective, and normative features in the universe emerge with respect to selves. Selves can become more complex, but even simple selves have a subject. You can have ontology without epistemology, but as soon as there are selves, there is value. Therefore, the ontology and epistemology story cannot be pulled apart, but are entangled.

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