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Jiang uses the Ugolino scene to reopen a paradox about babies, innocence, and where children belong in Dante's afterlife architecture.
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Babies
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...paradise 32. what did we spend a lot of time discussing babies in heaven yes do you see the symmetry here right and we..."
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He says the worldview-as-memory-filter model fails on babies because babies appear to have distinct personalities before they should have a developed worldview.
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"...paradise 32. what did we spend a lot of time discussing babies in heaven yes do you see the symmetry here right and we..."
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"babies and don is like wait a minute i thought virgil told me babies were all in limbo and but you had these babies..."
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"...your long -term memory. The problem with this is, how about babies? In theory, babies should not have a worldview. They should not have..."
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"OK? The other thing is that I have three kids, and I can tell you that they're all distinct personalities. It seems as though..."
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"...something using heaven and hell, Purgatory, okay? Well, I can't explain babies who die, right? Because they're innocent, but they weren't baptized, so they..."
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"...in Virgil, such that you would start to rot as a baby. And, um, the siren is like a love that has been left..."
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"...saying is this. We know how the fetus turns into a baby which turns into a body, right? That makes sense, okay? So the..."
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"...Mona Lisa's hands is not the woman's hands. It must be baby's infant's hands and the face is like a man is not a..."
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"...are certain regions that activate in a mother's brain when her baby is crying. And I think that crying is like..."
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"...you didn't have the nightmare I do now. I'm so sorry, baby. You know, the ghost left me and went to your room. Sorry."
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"...lopez falls in love with you and gets married and have babies and that's good god dies right exactly"
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