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Mar 10, 2023Liked by Josh Mitteldorf

I appreciate your sharing your deep thinking on ... well I guess life, cells, existence.

I find a repeating belief or understanding from my few friends whose thinking is spiritual and metaphysical. A universal conscience concept underlying everything.

I can't get there. I like the thought but just don't buy consciousness as fundamental. I think its emergent. And there is where I'm sort of stuck. I believe complexity leads to astounding emergent properties. I think when we say an emergent phenomenon is fundamental we have mislabeled it.

Does this matter? Only if one wants to believe we are closer to a truth.

Is truth emergent......?

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I have no interest in serving any larger entity. I have gone the opposite way. The covid-19 debacle and the WEF actions have massively reinforced my conviction that a true commitment to liberty requires the rejection of collectivism in any form, whatsoever, and this includes organized religion and "spirituality" that questions individual autonomy and self-ownership in the Randian/Rothbardian context.

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Do you really think there is one single system or idea that is optimized for all people?

Is it not possible that the future is decentralized and infinite in all directions? That the future will be a multiplicity of many different systems and societies, each optimized for the wants and desires of those that choose them. I envision a decentralize milieu of many systems. Some socialist, some capitalist, some traditionalist, some libertarian.

I think it rather arrogant and presumptuous to think that there is one perfect system or cause that is optimal for all humans to support and be a part of. Different strokes for different folks. Live and let live, I say.

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I agree with your last conclusion: I believe the WEF's claims that it seeks to prevent climate change is merely a cover story to hide their real goal: the control of the global populace. They are scary people, but they have no power over Reality, which laughs at their arrogance. Stick with the Truth, and keep meditating!

I left you some links in my comment on Part I.

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