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Jiang says modern people probably underestimate the sophistication of ancient civilizations and overstate the uniqueness of present-day technology.
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Ancient civilizations
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diagnosis
He says science neglects consciousness, imagination, intuition, spirits, religious truth, kindness, happiness, love, telepathy, animal and plant intelligence, and ancient architecture.
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Jiang says humanity is not the first great civilization and points to Antarctica, Amazonian structures, Gobekli Tepe, the pyramids, and the Indus Valley as hints of earlier advanced worlds.
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"...it possible, like, we discount the complexity and the sophistication of ancient civilizations like the Athenians and the Romans. Is it possible that they..."
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"and the magnetic pole excursion um is going to basically reset the game it's going to destroy the world 99 of us will be..."
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"like uh in like a few decades you go like any society and like they're very quickly able to build cities if they put..."
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"is the universe we can manifest reality in any way that we imagine and we put our collective minds to it and we have..."
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"It doesn't study consciousness, which is the number one problem in the world, right? Wouldn't it be nice to know how we think, okay?..."
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"...that we talk about when you go to an archaeology museum, ancient civilizations, and all we hear about is they had some belief in..."
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"i i can't speak on the ancient civilization stuff it's fun to think about you maybe you know more than i do about what's..."
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"...have the Amazon in Brazil, and how we're discovering how these ancient civilizations existed in the Amazon before, and also these ancient civilizations were..."
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"...first question is like earlier you mentioned that there are three ancient civilizations that are very close to each other like Egyptian and"
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"...which is not true, is we're so much more sophisticated than ancient civilizations, because ancient civilizations had these superstitious beliefs, like gods, okay? Like..."
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"...at Egypt first. All right. So, again, Egypt is a very ancient civilization. And their mythology is extremely complex. They have different versions of..."
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