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Who is God? | Brian Muraresku and Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQh1ZNkC70 Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex and use code Lex25 to get 25% off - GiveWell: https://www.givewell.org/ and use code LEX to get donation matched up to $1k - NI: https://www.ni.com/perspectives - Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit - MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off GUEST BIO: Brian Muraresku is the author of The Immortality Key. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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idea, but its reference is to that which is beyond thinking, beyond our ability to even conceive,', 'start': 17.563, 'duration': 12.279}, {'end': 32.824, 'text': 'beyond the categories of being and non-being.', 'start': 29.842, 'duration': 2.982}, {'end': 34.325, 'text': 'So how do we talk about that?', 'start': 32.984, 'duration': 1.341}, {'end': 37.186, 'text': 'To talk about it is almost to get it wrong right?', 'start': 34.385, 'duration': 2.801}, {'end': 42.689, 'text': 'So Joe Campbell famously said that you know any God that is not transparent to.', 'start': 37.246, 'duration': 5.443}, {'end': 46.891, 'text': "transcendence is like an idolatry, because it's just a mental construct.", 'start': 42.689, 'duration': 4.202}, {'end': 50.212, 'text': "and it can't possibly speak to the incomprehensible.", 'start': 47.691, 'duration': 2.521}, {'end': 51.453, 'text': 'So we use poetic language.', 'start': 50.272, 'duration': 1.181}], 'summary': 'God is an idea beyond our ability to 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'text': 'It represents all of the mystery around us.', 'start': 98.338, 'duration': 2.281}, {'end': 104, 'text': "It's outside our ability to comprehend.", 'start': 101.239, 'duration': 2.761}, {'end': 108.262, 'text': "And at the same time, it's somehow the thing that's inside of us also.", 'start': 104.02, 'duration': 4.242}, {'end': 109.662, 'text': 'The ultimate paradox.', 'start': 108.602, 'duration': 1.06}, {'end': 112.363, 'text': 'Mechthild of Magdeburg, 13th century.', 'start': 110.242, 'duration': 2.121}, {'end': 124.333, 'text': 'German mystic maybe the first German mystic says that the day of her spiritual awakening was the day that she saw and knew that she saw God in all things and all things in God.', 'start': 112.363, 'duration': 11.97}, {'end': 133.222, 'text': 'And so we can say this, by the way, without apology or lightweight theology or vapid speculation, or even heresy.', 'start': 124.714, 'duration': 8.508}, {'end': 138.307, 'text': 'we can talk about this including within the Abrahamic faiths, the mystical core of these faiths.', 'start': 133.222, 'duration': 5.085}, {'end': 141.829, 'text': 'all talk about the encounter of divinity within.', 'start': 138.307, 'duration': 3.522}, {'end': 144.629, 'text': "That's what I explore in the Immortality Key,", 'start': 141.889, 'duration': 2.74}, {'end': 158.713, 'text': "this notion of techniques archaic techniques in some cases of ecstasy that allow that experience of the eternal principle to actually rise up in our consciousness when we're still here as flesh and blood beings.", 'start': 144.629, 'duration': 14.084}, {'end': 167.556, 'text': "There's some sense in which our conception of God, though, is conjured up by our own mind.", 'start': 159.694, 'duration': 7.862}, {'end': 172.271, 'text': "And so aren't we creating God??", 'start': 169.167, 'duration': 3.104}, {'end': 177.117, 'text': "Aren't we the gods that are creating the idea of God?", 'start': 172.291, 'duration': 4.826}], 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"Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, a modern-day contemporary mystic, talks about, because this stuff does continue, there's a continuity to it.", 'start': 365.15, 'duration': 6.742}], 'summary': 'Rumi and rabbi kushner discuss mysticism and self-discovery.', 'duration': 25.955, 'max_score': 345.937, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/nb6Pt8x0pyg/pics/nb6Pt8x0pyg345937.jpg'}, {'end': 548.235, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 522.376, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 529.201, 'text': 'the idea that we make the universe moment by moment, which is kind of mind blowing, gets into ideas of simulation.', 'start': 522.376, 'duration': 6.825}, {'end': 532.644, 'text': "Okay, so that's how the physicists, at least some of them might look at it.", 'start': 530.022, 'duration': 2.622}, {'end': 535.906, 'text': 'You could also look back to the medieval Christian mystics.', 'start': 532.964, 'duration': 2.942}, {'end': 548.235, 'text': 'Meister Eckhart once again says that 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The discussion explores the idea of humans embodying divinity, as observed in Christian mysticism, Sufi tradition, and Kabbalism.', "The idea of humans as a tool for the creator to understand itself is explored. The transcript delves into the concept of humans being utilized as a tool by the creator to comprehend itself, potentially implying that humans are instrumental in the creator's pursuit of understanding.", 'The potential for our reality to be a simulation is reflected in video game statistics and virtual communities. The chapter draws parallels between the concept of our reality being a simulation and the sophisticated worlds created in video games, prompting contemplation on the possibility of our existence as a simulation and the potential shift towards living in the digital space.']}, {'end': 931.253, 'segs': [{'end': 808.654, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 709.504, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 720.149, 'text': 'And then the remnants of, of the ancients that created the video games that nobody centuries from now will even remember, those will be the gods.', 'start': 709.504, 'duration': 10.645}, {'end': 722.65, 'text': "And then there'll be gods upon gods being created.", 'start': 720.609, 'duration': 2.041}, {'end': 725.031, 'text': 'This is the kind of stuff I think about.', 'start': 722.67, 'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 733.235, 'text': 'But is that any at all useful to you, to this thought experiment of a simulation? Basically the fabric of our reality?', 'start': 725.071, 'duration': 8.164}, {'end': 734.155, 'text': 'how did it come to be??', 'start': 733.235, 'duration': 0.92}, {'end': 735.556, 'text': 'What is running this thing??', 'start': 734.595, 'duration': 0.961}, {'end': 740.538, 'text': 'Is that useful? 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The discussion explores the idea of humans embodying divinity, as observed in Christian mysticism, Sufi tradition, and Kabbalism.', "The idea of humans as a tool for the creator to understand itself is explored. The transcript delves into the concept of humans being utilized as a tool by the creator to comprehend itself, potentially implying that humans are instrumental in the creator's pursuit of understanding.", 'The potential for our reality to be a simulation is reflected in video game statistics and virtual communities. 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