André Duqum

Why does that suck, by the way?

Feels like...

between your last two books, they really complement each other and go hand in hand.

To examine who you are and the beliefs that constitute so much of what we think we want in life, and then to realign with who we are, what our values are, and then to actually follow through with that and learn how to do that.

What's the biggest thing that you hope somebody reading your book, listening to this conversation would really like take home in their life?

On the first note, my buddy Peter Krohn has this good saying, self-righteousness is the poor man's version of self-worth.

You know?

Is there anything that we haven't touched on today that you feel like is essential to add in the context of this conversation?

One thing I feel called to bring back up, just because we've had on a lot of cognitive scientists, psychologists, consciousness researchers, examining from many different lenses and disciplines how we do not see reality as it is.

I think for many people it can be destabilizing.

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.