Also Peter Thiel.

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    16 days ago

    If I wanted to “feel” a connection to the world I’d do drugs, but I’d much rather “understand” things empirically. Ecology is fascinating and important and I don’t need a guru to see how everything is interconnected.

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      16 days ago

      I’m not talking about wishy washy woowoo. I simply mean the connection from the external world to the inner. Even empirical data needs to connect and pass through your “soul/essence” to make any sense of it. You can use different words if you want to, but it’s simply our own personal consciousness and behaviours that interact with existence.

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        15 days ago

        I’m not talking about wishy washy woowoo.

        You are though, there is no soul. The concept of such is wishy washy woowoo. Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of electrochemistry.

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          14 days ago

          Ah, so you’re a soulless electrochemical robot deluding itself of being? I actually like that idea, it would make for some good writing.