Summary: <a href="http://skeptiko.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/please-share-skeptiko3.jpg"></a><br> Al From Forum Borealis joins me for a conversation about technology and consciousness.<br> <br> photo by: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lit_foto/329883142/in/photolist-muJJ6B-bpvGYf-btGJ63-muLA2q-U8nCDB-qYYFHU-v9JLo-v9JTM-Vfw5Jf-ZxohaW-8RL119-bo8vq3-r2GHrE-27xWvYL-Dnt5Cg-6bpfAJ-6bkaV2-e1Lk4n-2aNbUrc-PRUHU-9mH2dE-ebELgB-6bpfkf-6bk6Dt-2aNbTVx-pHHWWN-hC8qQN-uMa9Lp-s4zuKa-rf783p-pB2Hyq-hX1ZRD-e7mnk1-rmjXhL-ayRbwk-s8Ci51-21Y2j71-sbkR6F-jFSCTA-eXKzuB-D63eVx-VzQZ53-ed2DCz-rFvM6V-59CYYg-5Xofx9-3DaWu-jGciq9-pN3Ldd-v9Jww">Skeptiko</a><br> (machine generated transcript… very hit or miss :))<br> 0:00 – 0:07 on this episode of Skeptiko oh I think<br><br> 0:03 – 0:10 the shaman thing may be wrong they may<br><br> 0:07 – 0:15 be looking at a very underdeveloped<br><br> 0:10 – 0:17 sense of manipulating aspects of<br><br> 0:15 – 0:19 consciousness when we look at ancient<br><br> 0:17 – 0:20 agriculture we say wow they did pretty<br><br> 0:19 – 0:22 good they had that little stick and they<br><br> 0:20 – 0:25 drove it in the ground and then they<br><br> 0:22 – 0:27 stuck a fishin in the with every corn<br><br> 0:25 – 0:31 seed and it grew hey good for them right<br><br> 0:27 – 0:34 now we get a hundred times that by doing<br><br> 0:31 – 0:36 all this kind of manipulation some of it<br><br> 0:34 – 0:38 good some of it bad but we figured out<br><br> 0:36 – 0:40 how to do that at a whole different<br><br> 0:38 – 0:42 level oh I think we’re under impressed<br><br> 0:40 – 0:44 of course there’s something you fail to<br><br> 0:42 – 0:47 see in that reasoning look they were<br><br> 0:44 – 0:48 having archaea consciousness or magical<br><br> 0:47 – 0:50 mythical depends when we’re talking<br><br> 0:48 – 0:52 about so that means that they were<br><br> 0:50 – 0:55 dealing with the same things but they<br><br> 0:52 – 0:58 were expressing and experiencing<br><br> 0:55 – 0:60 differently look I said people had a<br><br> 0:58 – 1:02 different kind of consciousness before<br><br> 0:60 – 1:05 that means that what they perceive it<br><br> 1:02 – 1:08 was also different people in nature like<br><br> 1:05 – 1:11 Oz Norwegians we know the wages are very<br><br> 1:08 – 1:13 artistic or I should say agnostic we’re<br><br> 1:11 – 1:17 probably the most secular one of the<br><br> 1:13 – 1:19 most secular in the world right now but<br><br> 1:17 – 1:21 all the Weejun when they go to the<br><br> 1:19 – 1:25 mountains when they go to the forests<br><br> 1:21 – 1:28 they become extremely humble and they<br><br> 1:25 – 1:30 connect with something now we prefer the<br><br> 1:28 – 1:32 technical way to explain it rather than<br><br> 1:30 – 1:34 the mythical because we lost from that<br><br> 1:32 – 1:38 part of consciousness but it’s still<br><br> 1:34 – 1:42 there and we still know about it I’m<br><br> 1:38 – 1:46 leaning towards the idea that the<br><br> 1:42 – 1:50 consciousness soul connection is not<br><br> 1:46 – 1:53 what we think it is it’s not as special<br><br> 1:50 – 1:58 it’s not as unique it’s more malleable<br><br> 1:53 – 2:00 than maybe we’ve thought stay with us<br><br> 1:58 – 2:08 for skeptiko<br><br> 2:00 – 2:12 [Music]<br> (continued below)<br> <br> <a href="http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/al-borealis-%E2%80%93-part-2-%E2%80%93-technology-and-consciousness-390.4205/">Click here for forum discussion</a><br> <a href="https://www.forumborealis.net/">Click here for Al’s Forum Borealis website</a><br> Read Excerpts:<br> <br> <a href="http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/al-borealis-%E2%80%93-part-2-%E2%80%93-technology-and-consciousness-390."></a>
