Mind Meld 148 | STAINING THE FUTURE with Ramin Nazer
THIRD EYE DROPS
Michael Phillip, SpectreVision Radio
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults. |
| 0:03.7 | Now administering third eye drops. Wonderful to Wonder Dip with you as always, my friends. |
| 0:26.0 | Michael Philip here, after we drop our bodies, we're really reduced to our ideas and the stories that people tell about us. |
| 0:38.6 | And usually the half-life of that is not very long. Think about it. How much do you know about your great |
| 0:46.0 | grandparents? You may have known them a bit if you were fortunate, but how much do you know about your great-great-grandparents? |
| 0:54.4 | How about your great-great-grandparents? I'm sure at that point it gets pretty fuzzy. |
| 0:59.7 | And that's only a couple of generations. |
| 1:03.8 | We know next to nothing about our own ancestors |
| 1:10.1 | just a couple of generations back. It's pretty wild and what's even more wild is that some people |
| 1:19.3 | had such novel ideas that they're basically immortal. Think about Socrates, Plato, Lautzu, Buddha, Jesus. |
| 1:35.0 | Consider that. Consider that these people, through the blade of their minds, were able to communicate such profundity, such novelty, that their ideas have flavored the way |
| 1:49.2 | we think about reality to this day. Thousands of years later, practically, |
| 1:57.0 | every undergraduate college student |
| 2:00.0 | is thinking their thoughts right now, |
| 2:02.8 | were at least very recently. |
| 2:04.9 | I gotta be honest, they sort of give me |
| 2:06.8 | something of a bit of idea envy. |
| 2:11.3 | Of course, I want to have good ideas because I really think that sharing |
| 2:16.3 | thoughts especially for a living is one of the most incredible things that a person can accomplish but aside from that and the other |
| 2:26.9 | sort of selfish motivations innately embedded in the pursuit of interesting ideas is the fact that when you serve as a portal for really novel or valuable ideas, you're doing something very important for humankind. You're serving as a kind of |
| 2:45.9 | midwife for evolution or a midwife for knowledge, as Socrates put it. |
| 2:53.0 | In other words, you're aiding in the emergence |
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