Good morning, Safan Maloney from Freedom, I hope you doing well. I got a great question,

a deep philosophical question at the live stream the other day, the relationship between

thoughts in the mind and things in reality. It's a great, great question, and I'm going to

unpack it for you. It's a little bit of metaphysics, a little bit of epistemology,

but don't worry about the words.

They're not particularly important.

But these are very important things to understand about the nature of truth,

which is kind of what we're after.

So the way that thoughts and things in the world work is the best analogy

is you think of a blueprint for a building,

like an architectural blueprint for a building, what the building is going to look like,

where the pipes are going to go, the spaceage, the floors, the, you know, the HVAC and electrical

and all of that. So you've got to design for a building. You know, if you've ever shopped for a house, then if you're going particularly to new construction, they have all of that. So you've got to design for a building, you know, if you've ever shopped for a house,

then if you're going particularly to new construction, they have all of these models on the wall.

You know, here's how this looks, here's how that looks, and the square footage, and they have the two floors

and all of that. So, you know, it would be pretty funny and obviously fraudulent in a way if someone would

say to you, you know, here's the blueprint for the house. The house is $400,000. You hand over the

$400,000 and they give you the blueprint. And you'd say, well, I can't live in the blueprint.

I need a place to live. Blueprint's not going to give me much shelter from the rain and the snow. So that would be kind of fraudulent, where if they said, look, the blueprint's right there on the wall. It says $400,000. And you spent the $400,000. You got the blueprint. People would say, no, no, no. I thought I was buying what the blueprint represented, not the blueprint itself. I wouldn't pay $400,000 got the blueprint people would say no no no I thought I was buying what the blueprint represented not the blueprint itself I wouldn't pay

$400,000 for the blueprint of a house which you could just photocopy I want the actual

house so does the blueprint exist in the world yes does the blueprint represent something in the world? Yes. Is the blueprint an exact match of the thing in the world? It is not, right? So you could get some atomic measure and so on, and you could say, well,

they said the house is 2,500 square feet, but when I measure it in every conceivable detail,

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