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Jiang argues that if the soul is truly eternal, then death is not the real problem because humans cannot finally die and can only be reborn.
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Rebirth
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He frames repeated earthly return as samsara: if a soul does not fulfill its purpose, it returns to try again under a new purpose until it understands itself more fully.
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Jiang says societies rise and fall so creativity can exist, comparing social death to parents dying so children can become independent.
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He argues that destruction, war, and death should not be treated only as negative but as part of human experience that requires response and can lead to new creative civilizations.
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Jiang says the first great lie is that death is final; he treats death as beginning, rebirth, reset, and a mechanism of knowledge accumulation.
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"Sorry, do you want to say something? Okay, so what this is saying is like, remember that you think you're a body, you think..."
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"school, because of parents, because of society, you're blocked from knowing your purpose, from truly pursuing your purpose. Okay? And that's part of the..."
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"What do you think are the three biggest lies humans have been told? Um,"
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"...that's why I think death is important because death allows for rebirth and rejuvenation. It allows for a reset. Um, and I, I think..."
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"Don't be afraid of making mistakes. It's all part of the growing process. So I think death is one of the greatest lies. And..."
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"Okay, I'll answer the last question first. I was an English major at Yale, okay? So I know a lot about English poetry. Milton..."
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"...a cycle, okay? So even though there's destruction, destruction will mean rebirth. Even though there is stagnation, stagnation will lead to creativity. It's all..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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