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8 timestamped hits 4 source readings 5 extracted notes Aliases: shared-realities

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Shared reality

He presents Hegel's Geist as the spirit or shared force that gives space and time, responds to human action, and lets multiple people inhabit the same reality.

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Lecture reconstruction as of 2026-01-28.

model

He presents Hegel's Geist as the spirit or shared force that gives space and time, responds to human action, and lets multiple people inhabit the same reality.

2026-01-21 model of poetic internalization

model

A poet's beautiful language enters listeners, is internalized and absorbed, and becomes the building block for a shared reality.

Lecture interpretation as of 2025-10-15.

diagnosis

He says Kant's model creates three problems: what the noumenon is, why humans have time-space filters, and why subjective perceivers still share a common world.

Philosophical model used in this lecture.

model

He uses Hegel's Geist as the answer: the noumenon is spirit world, time and space come from one source, and shared reality is possible because the same source structures experience.

General interpretive model stated on 2024-11-28.

definition

Mythology is the collective worldview or shared reality that lets a civilization understand reality, and Jiang treats modern science and history as contemporary mythologies in that sense.

Timestamped Evidence

Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid

2024-11-28, day precision · Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality

Transcript

"...again they have these two different mythologies because they're reflecting the shared reality of the different geographies and history okay any questions so far..."

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