What I see wherever I look, and I see it in two places.

I see it in science.

And I also see it in the impersonal interpretation of Vedanta.

But the idea is to always push out the idea of the person.

There's fear of the person.

We must eliminate that idea that there's person behind it all and become free of an other, within Vedantes,

that we don't want an other person within.

Probably stemming from we've had bad relationships of persons.

It's psychological.

It's, it's reactive.

If God is a person, oh, God, that's going to be horrible.

And, you know, you got to think, like, a guy like Sam Harris, who's like a really intelligent guy. And, you know, like, I kind of, as a person, he's, I kind of, he seems like a decent guy. But, you know, he, he wrote a whole book on that we have no free will. And, but then he'll try to kind of like rationalize it or trying to paint it in a pretty

picture of like saying, well, when you understand this, because, you know, they don't want religious

theological ideas. They see those as the cause of all the problems. Well, you know what? They're also

what's holding everything together, you know so so he'll say you

know that that the fact that we have no free will that understanding that you're not the author of

your own thoughts it makes you less judgmental of other people yeah well it means you can't judge anything

you know it means like there is no nobody's responsible for anything and uh then you have a

guy like alex o'connor who's also he he doesn't approach it neurologically but he approaches it

philosophically and he believes that we don't have any free will but he has like what i appreciate

about him is that he has like, he's kind of

intellectually committed to following this through. And so he'll say, so therefore, all our

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