Tim Ferriss
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Podcast Appearances
And I don't know exactly where that comes from.
I think it was just suspecting that there was, on some level, I think,
Researchers like Donald Hoffman, he's a buck and bronco.
He could have one.
But there was always part of me that kind of suspected that this was what we're looking at here and experiencing.
It's like a user interface.
It's like a desktop on a computer where it's like, okay, we have these icons and so on that represent something.
but that this is just one interface, right?
If we were a mantis shrimp or a different animal, like, it wouldn't look or feel like this, right?
So this is a reality, but it's not the end-all, be-all objective reality.
I always just had that feeling.
And you can explore that through a purely scientific...
physicalist lens, right?
You don't have to get out there.
You don't have to be running around the full moon swinging a dead cat over your head with a hawk wing, right?
Like, you don't have to get into pure Wu territory to ask some questions about things.
And then I would say later,
I was always interested in mythology.
And my mom got me this crazy book, I think it was on the remainder table, called A Lycanthropy Reader.
And A Lycanthropy Reader was a historical collection of essays on the mythology and belief of shape-shifting.