Everything is the same in that it is different.

According to sameness, there is no difference between sameness and difference.

According to difference, there is. In this episode, we're going to be talking

about sameness versus difference. What is sameness? This topic is a lot more profound than it would initially

seem. And this topic is also going to be very fun. We're going to dig into a lot of

examples and we're going to talk about a lot of the ramifications of just how

significant the answer to this question really is.

And we're going to contemplate it together here today.

I wanted to show you after last week's episode,

which was called how to contemplate using a journal. I wanted to show you how to take

your contemplations really deep because the problem that I see is that people still don't

understand just how deep contemplation can go.

I see people taking some profound questions, some existential metaphysical question about the nature of reality and just thinking about it for 30 minutes and thinking

they got the answer and that's it they're all done and now they're moving on to the next thing and it's like no no

you don't understand how much more there is to mine here.

And so that's why I really want to go through with this in a lot of detail with you. then as a homework assignment I'll have you

contemplate this topic of sameness versus difference from scratch for

yourself.

Always you have to remember that these very obscure sometimes sounding questions about the nature of reality,

which might seem like they're just pure philosophy,

or they're just some mental masturbation,

or just some, yeah, just some random academic point, like sameness versus difference,

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