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Jiang argues that ayahuasca's dependence on two particular plants in a particular quantity makes purely random discovery implausible.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "with ayahuasca right because ayahuasca is a blending of two plants there's like a million plants you could blend together right how do they..."
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Another student reaches for original sin as the cause of decay in humans, while admitting that this does not obviously explain why plants and animals also perish.
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The Dante passage answers that human life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good, unlike the souls of animals and plants that are drawn forth from matter by the motions of the heavens.
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The Dante passage says animal and plant souls are drawn from matter by holy rays and motion, but human life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good and therefore grounds the reasoning for resurrection.
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A student argues that plants and animals might be closer to God than humans because they obey divine natural law blindly and humans cannot escape physics or biology.
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Jiang says the student has understood the framework backwards because plants and animals do not have souls, even though they arise under God's laws.
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Jiang extends consciousness to the whole universe: plants, animals, humans, and DNA-based life form a communicative network that can send insight to receptive minds.
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"with ayahuasca right because ayahuasca is a blending of two plants there's like a million plants you could blend together right how do they..."
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"...was not like okay you know what we'll just try million plants and see which which two work out right"
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"...this transcendental experience and as you point out it requires two plants it requires two herbs in a certain quantity together okay and like..."
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"...of Eden when the humans sin, but doesn't doesn't explain the plants and the animals and decay."
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"...the holy lights draw forth the soul of every animal and plant from matter able to take form. But your life is breathed forth..."
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"So I have a question. So according to this theoretical framework, like, you have humans and you have other life, as in planted animals...."
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"No, that's the complete opposite of what I just said. Yes. None of them have souls. Okay. So God creates the universe. The universe..."
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"...what we perceive i began my investigation with the enigma of plant communication okay plants are able to communicate with each other we know..."
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"...of western knowledge okay so all the entire universe is cautious plants have it animals have it we have it Therefore, if we open..."
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