Our Lives Matter S1E43: The Fundamental Sensory Illusion of the Environmental Crisis

Our Lives Matter

Sep 19 2024 | 00:14:43

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Show Notes

We naturally perceive some parts about how the environment works better than we perceive other parts of it. Those are the things we have to learn about to understand. Our most profound sensory illusion is a misunderstanding of how energy moves through the environment versus how it moves through the universe as a whole. But if we can understand that illusion, we can understand all the others. ACT I Scene 1 [104 bpm] How far back in our past did the environmental crisis begin? At what point did people start misinterpreting how the environment works and making the decisions…

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