André Duqum

For many people it can be quite liberating, because then you start holding your beliefs and presumptions a bit more loose, which gives you more access to freedom.

How does that insight that, like...

We are really looking through reality through like a straw hole.

Right.

There are millions of bits of information that we don't have access to that we're perceiving, but we're very selectively perceiving a very small amount of information.

I'm just curious, when you've done your research in that arena and when you've seen how we are this predictive machine that is happening and you see how much we are essentially kind of simulating our reality, what has that done for you ontologically as a human being, how you navigate life?

Yeah, there's something so powerful about seeing how somebody cannot hurt another person in consciousness.

By nature of doing something that is betraying somebody or hurting somebody,

there are internal forces that they do not have agency over to the degree we would probably say that they would.

And to me, that understanding of examining free will and seeing that if somebody was to murder somebody and go to prison, they of course have the consequences that are necessary there.

But if we were to then discover there was a tumor pressing on their amygdala, it changes the circumstances, right?

And how the compassion we have for them.

So

I think it's a beautiful place to arrive to, to be able to look at all life and people as phenomena to themselves.

And of course, doesn't disavow the consequences and the responsibility that comes from different people's actions.

But I think it's a beautiful note to end on.

And yeah, something I resonate a lot with.

Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, man.

Congrats once again.