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Jesse Michels

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Like, and that often is the case with people where they'll experience some trauma.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And often it's literally embodied trauma.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

You could read like, you know, what is it?

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

The body keeps the score or whatever, you know, and you end up with these like this embodied information.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And that ends up, you know, you fulfill your karmic cycle by like healing that thing.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And so, yeah, I think our model of epistemology is probably backwards.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And the body and the brain are not productive.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

They're reductive.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

One of my favorite Marshall McLuhan quotes is, every media extension of man is an amputation.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And it's this idea that we are actually, when we extend ourselves with Neuralink or virtual reality, we are porting ourselves into a lower level prism.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And there's this idea of the fall of man.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And if you do have any sort of soul state, maybe this itself is sort of technology that

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

you know, to go through the game of life and learn karma or whatever it is.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Like, I don't know what the purpose of life is, but... That's just a really important note there because you do see this sort of bifurcation of...

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Yes.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And I think it's a huge fallacy of Silicon Valley to...

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

say, oh, you can't beat him, join him with the AI and not realizing we might... It's this weird thing, especially with Elon Musk, where it's a literal logical fallacy because he says we're in a simulation now.

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

So why wouldn't you, A, think about who's simulating us?

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Who are the simulators?

Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

You're dogmatically opposed to aliens, apparently, but you think we're in a simulation.