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Reading the Iliad opens the mind by strengthening the mind's connection to the universe, like increasing download speed on an internet connection.
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Reading the Iliad opens the mind by strengthening the mind's connection to the universe, like increasing download speed on an internet connection.
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Jiang says that if people learn to control their minds, they can control reality itself.
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Jiang presents Homer's achievement as the ability of one mind to generate multiple coherent minds, including speaker, audience, emotional effects, memory effects, and long-term behavioral consequences.
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Jiang treats the school story that humans evolved from apes as a hierarchy-justifying myth; he says bodies may have evolved from apes, but minds come from somewhere else.
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The mother-goddess worldview is said to begin from mind leading to matter, unlike modern science classes that teach matter leading to mind.
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He defines paradox as a truth that seems like a contradiction and structure as the mathematical precision that turns The Divine Comedy into an intellectual jigsaw puzzle.
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Kant is introduced as the philosophical claim that reality is not simply what we see or experience; reality is imagined and created by the mind.
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"...the more you read the Iliad, the more it's opening your mind, okay?"
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"Your mind is an antenna, okay? Your mind is an antenna to the universe, right? So when you read the Iliad, it's as though..."
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"...okay? We're not able to see this because of how our minds work, because we're only able to see through time and space, but..."
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"...And again, what's amazing is that this all comes in the mind of one person, Homer, the poet. Okay? So imagine this, where as..."
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"...of my words, but I'm also able to go into your mind one by one and think about how my words are changing your..."
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"look at the wind they have to look at the oceanic currents at the look of the stars and that's why we have computers..."
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"...from apes and maybe our bodies evolved from apes but our minds are not our minds come from somewhere else okay so why are..."
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"most precious resource therefore it is not in your best interest to kill everyone but we have an empire like the roman empire you..."
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"...a brain then the brain because of synodic connections creates the mind okay so it's matter that leads to mind um even though we're..."
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"that led to matter but it's the mind that creates the brain in order to understand the world okay that makes a lot more..."
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"...divine comedy as almost as an intellectual jigsaw puzzle. The human mind does not like contradictions. The human mind does not like paradoxes. So..."
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"The geometric signs. So in other words, they went to the spirit world or they think they went into the spirit world and then..."
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