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LINKS MENTIONED:
-John Vervaeke's Meaning Crisis series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
-Joscha Bach's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Plinz

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:26 Behind the scenes conversation
00:05:48 Joscha's opinion of John's work
00:06:52 John's opinion of Joscha's work
00:08:58 Definition of consciousness / sentience / mind / self
00:17:39 Primary qualia vs the "experience" of qualia
00:25:00 Is science compatible with Joscha's model of simulated consciousness?
00:34:55 The solution to Dualism
00:35:52 People mistake their psychedelic trips for idealism
00:40:55 We don't experience the physical world
00:42:30 The problem of skepticism and solipsism
00:52:11 What is "rationality"?
00:55:17 Mysterianism and Epistemic Boundedness
01:00:38 The boundaries of consciousness (do they exist?)
01:07:08 What is "real"? How do you know? Discussion on ontology
01:22:15 If we're in a simulation, we wouldn't know (Plato's cave)
01:27:25 The gods are personality archetypes
01:29:32 Physics is less real than the Forms
01:43:58 Academia doesn't value dialogue as content
01:57:57 Is "truth" always "good"?
02:01:45 The meaning crisis
02:11:55 What did Joscha and John think 2 years, that they no longer view to be correct?
02:16:17 Consciousness is a "government"
02:21:16 [Donald Hoffman] Is spacetime fundamental? Can there every be a Theory of Everything?
02:30:40 [Sad Face] Chinese room thought experiment of Searle's
02:36:08 Software is a physical law
02:43:45 [Zanthius] Why should a simulation "feel" anything? Meta-consciousness discussion
02:52:43 [Anil Seth] Is consciousness substrate independent?
02:55:31 Curt answers audience questions

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Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it.