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André Duqum

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Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

I, it's, it's a complex and from a level of understanding can be also a simple understanding.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Yeah.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

I thought of many things when you were sharing like the fundamental disposition to being like,

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

oriented towards service to self or service to others, I think is, like, they kind of put you on two fundamental paths.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

One is, like, the era, the causal era of time, of entropy, which you, like, think inherently move towards chaos, versus entropy, or negentropy, where...

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

things have emergent complexity and coherence as they evolve over time, which is like two ways of being.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And I strive, like I think probably you do and most of our listeners for the latter.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

There's something interesting about

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

In the study of what wisdom is from a psychological perspective, one aspect of it, which I think you'll like, is called perspectival metacognition.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

So the ability to take on multiple perspectives at once.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

A physicist, I think it was Niels Bohr or David Bohm, one of those, said the opposite of a fact is a falsehood, but the opposite of a profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Oh, I like that.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

I think that really gets to the heart of what you're speaking to.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Like from one level,

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

You can experience the deep pain of humanity and separation and division and what it's like to be undivided and have empathy for that.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And from another level of understanding, you can see how reality is completely whole.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

It is singular and perfect from that understanding and that state.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

And to be wise would be to honor both as realities, you know?

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

To, like, see the perfection and to see the reality of the separation.

Know Thyself
E179 - Reggie Watts: The Absurdity of Being a Human Being

Yes.