What if everything is conscious?

In the episode of my 🎙️ podcast, I and @Philip_Goff explore the absolutely crazy but increasingly popular view that everything in our universe is conscious (panpsychism).
If you have an hour to spare this weekend, listen to the podcast below.

The podcast largely covers @Philip_Goff's book: Galileo's Error: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599229/g…

I absolutely loved reading the book.
Here's what we cover in the podcast:
The podcast is also available on other platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify.

Here's the links: invertedpassion.com/bold-conjectur…

Hope you enjoy this conversation :)

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(a 🧵 thread on this mental model)
1/ No business delivers value to the end customer all by itself. In reality, a business does very few things within its boundaries.

Everything else must come from other businesses: from renting servers on AWS, leasing offices, advertising on Google & buying laptops from Dell.
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However, sometimes some business dependencies can (and should) be deepened explicitly through partnerships.

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Beyond Meat released their 3.0 of plant-based meat.

These comments on Reddit make my heart sing.

These burgers are:

- Better nutritional content
- Better for environment
- Almost at parity in cost
- Ethical

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Imagine: if all the 70+ billion animals that get slaughtered each year for meat could tweet for someone to help them, we’d drown in their cries.
Also imagine, a superior alien race that farms all humans for meat because they love eating it.

Disgusting, right?

That’s exactly how we treat animals.

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The doctor has advised immediate hospitalisation.

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This is a terrible situation.

Anyone leads beyond Delhi? Cities around 2-3 hours away should be okay too.
Still nothing.

Our group of 10 friends has been trying non-stop for last 3 hours.

Feeling extremely angry.

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We need a tsunami of vaccinations right now.

Why wait until 1st May? Is our vaccine supply getting 100% used? Image
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