Leo Gura: Infinite Consciousness, God Realization, and Free Will
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Show Notes
- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:04:15 - Disclaimers + physicalism vs nondualism
- 00:10:12 - Truth is merciless + developing one's own Weltanschauung
- 00:14:05 - Embodying a philosophy
- 00:22:35 - Chris Langan, the CTMU, and Distributed Solipsism
- 00:27:08 - Physics and consciousness depend on one another
- 00:32:36 - Reality is a dream and truth
- 00:45:12 - Epi-consciousness and Gödel's incompleteness theorem
- 01:11:02 - Epistemology, nescience vs ignorance, and hierarchies
- 01:27:25 - Using language is delusive and deficient
- 01:30:49 - The two kinds of "love"
- 01:43:19 - Being precise with one's words
- 01:59:25 - Free will
- 02:15:23 - The reason the universe was created
- 02:23:55 - Creation and destruction (the same? different?)
- 02:30:03 - Paradoxes and contradictions
- 02:41:34 - Meditative exercise for God realization
- 02:55:56 - On Donald Hoffman
- 03:08:15 - Steelmanning the materialist (how do you insights from psychedelics are true?)
- 03:19:34 - Ego, and free will
- 03:26:43 - Leo's own self-deception
- 03:29:37 - The "woo" of paranormal healers and psychics (Leo's personal stories)
- 03:49:50 - On Sam Harris' morality and the Moral Landscape
- 04:01:35 - Experimentations with psychedelics
- 04:09:42 - How to not have a bad trip / become suicidal from nihilism
- 04:19:05 - On attachment (beneficial or not?)
- 04:22:51 - Thomas Campbell
- 04:30:31 - Bernardo Kastrup
- 04:33:47 - Frank Yang
- 04:51:28 - Raymond Smullyan (excerpt reading by Curt)
- 05:03:49 - Curt is too selfish to have a TOE
- 05:05:52 - When you realize you're God, the universe ends
- 05:09:11 - Why use the term "God"?
- 05:12:58 - Principle of impermanence not impermanent?
- 05:14:39 - Proof that you have free will
- 05:19:49 - "Everyone has good intentions"
- 05:23:08 - Hate comes from love
- 05:31:45 - Interview with Matthew Phillips of Transcend
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