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Jiang's claim that human imagination lets people become more than ape-like appetite and aggression.
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Choose our own evolution
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...truth is that we are uniquely imaginative and we can choose our own evolution. Don't believe we're apes, okay? If you believe you're an..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...truth is that we are uniquely imaginative and we can choose our own evolution. Don't believe we're apes, okay? If you believe you're an..."
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"...truth is that we are uniquely imaginative and we can choose our own evolution. Don't believe we're apes, okay? If you believe you're an..."
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"But we're not apes. We're imaginative first and foremost. And as such, we have control over our lives. And that's something that you have..."
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"...the truth is that we are imaginative and we can choose our own evolution okay so"
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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