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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.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And often it's literally embodied trauma.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
You could read like, you know, what is it?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And the body and the brain are not productive.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
They're reductive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Yes.
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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...
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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.
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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?
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Who are the simulators?
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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.