Jiang argues that ayahuasca's dependence on two particular plants in a particular quantity makes purely random discovery implausible.
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Jiang says treating the universe as energy makes it appear as chaos and randomness.
Jiang treats the possibility of luck or randomness as a live interpretive issue by asking whether Dante's story-world believes in randomness at all.
He says the current scientific worldview has three core characteristics: reality is random rather than designed, material rather than spiritual, and emergent from particles upward.
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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..."
"no way it could have been random right there's no way it could have been random it was not like okay you know what..."
"okay ayahuasca i'm telling you no one knows how they came up with this okay it is the most one of the most powerful..."
"...is the universe's energy, it's basically complete chaos, right? Chaos and randomness. To say the soul, it's like a fractal, right? Basically, your soul..."
"no okay no he did yeah could he be bringing randomness and luck into this at all"
"...had a bad luck does does the story believe in in randomness and luck"
"personality so this is all a science knows I mean this is pretty simple but this is what science tells us about where we..."
"is emergent emergent which is basically means bottom up you have like these particles they become atoms then the atoms become matter they become..."
"God exists okay if God doesn't exist and Ren randomness randomness is what rules the universe there's no way he could have written this..."
"...some sarah a cycle will keep on going so there is randomness built into the universe and there's randomness because it's free will right..."
"...no sense to me. I believe in evolution. I believe in randomness. I believe in the Big Bang. But then I read the Divine..."
"...is Marx believed in the inevitability of history. But there's always randomness built into history. Okay? Things happen and we don't expect these things..."
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