What are we?
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link to old article about religion and science
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Awakening from meaning crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncd6q9uIEdw&list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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Vervaeke's talk with Peterson:
- Fun fact: they both teach at University of Toronto
- old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RCtSsxhb2Q
- newer one (haven't seen): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ-tHaHfB8A
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Ship of theseus
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Do chairs exist?
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Perhaps link to meditation? (there's also a couple of posts on meditation and negative thoughts)
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The physical consensus about quarks & atoms
- Old post on "You are the universe in escstatic motion" and "Understanding what we are part 1"
Behaviour
- Natural selection (see old articles about you are the universe in ecstatic motion)
- Prisoner's Dillema
- cooperation vs non cooperation
- tragedy of the common good
- Ergodicity Economics https://ergodicityeconomics.com/2023/08/29/for-to-withhold-is-to-perish/
Identity
Ego
Self-awareness
TODO: link to recursion
self-awareness is having an answer to the question "what am I"
TODO: link to Josha Bach CCC talk saying "identify with the highest common good"
Higherarchy of cooperation
atoms, molecules, organisms, tribes, empires ??
TODO: link to grabby aliens & dark forest hypothesis.
Self-aware information
The universe if formed of patterns. Patterns carry information. What happens if my synapses (the information in my brain) realise that they are information? Self-aware information.