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Jiang says that once one connects to the divine through love, the divine sends messages that steer the person even if the person remains partly corrupted.
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Jiang provocatively argues that pure self-enclosed mathematical world-building can drive people away from reality and the divine rather than closer to it.
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Jiang leaves the mechanism unresolved and thereby creates space for a later move toward empathy as something possibly irreducible to brain theory alone.
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Jiang says the deeper criterion is not fixed language or fixed formulas but a living connection to the divine.
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Jiang argues that language belongs to human reason and is only a limited tool for expressing the eternal divine, so language must keep changing over time.
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He says poets are the figures who refresh language so that human beings can continue reasoning toward the divine.
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Jiang treats the Bible as an accommodation to human limits rather than a pure identical presentation of the divine, and he tells the class not to believe everything in it uncritically.
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A student argues, and Jiang endorses, that Dante treats the Catholic Church as the main obstacle preventing human beings from connecting to the divine.
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"...you understand, like, what's important is to connect yourself to the divine food love once, once that happens, the vine will give you messages..."
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"Do you personally think maybe that's why some mathematicians go crazy? They're getting I agree. Yeah. Can you explain that? They're getting too close..."
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"...to inhabit this reality and you lose your connection to the divine through beauty and through truth and through love, you're gonna go crazy...."
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"Okay, so two years old is when we develop the mirror neurons, right? Okay. Alright. I'm not convinced mirror neurons actually exist. It's a..."
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"...believe that empathy is beyond one mind and it's definitely a divine emotion."
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"...Faith can be changed. What matters is your connection to the divine. Does that make sense, guys? All right. So again, Donnie doesn't care..."
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"...of our reason, it is a limited tool to express the divine. And over time, what's going to happen is that we're going to..."
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"Right. That's exactly what he's saying. Okay. But the point I'm trying to make is that reason is predicated on language. Only with language..."
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"...done really is the greatest sin in separating us from the divine?"
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"Throughout what we've read in the Divine Comedy, the main belief of Dante is that we should, as humans, we can connect to the..."
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"...appear before you subconsciously and it excites your connection to the divine. Okay, alright, so let's keep on going."
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