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The Purple Pill: What Happens When You Take the Blue and the Red Pill at the Same Time?

The Purple Pill: What Happens When You Take the Blue and the Red Pill at the Same Time?

FromBuilding a Science of Consciousness


The Purple Pill: What Happens When You Take the Blue and the Red Pill at the Same Time?

FromBuilding a Science of Consciousness

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Nov 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, we explore the idea that you don't need to choose between truth and happiness. High hedonic tone is not incompatible with one's representational accuracy of causal structures. The world, and the existence of experiential heaven and hell, can be understood without curling into a ball and crying your way to sleep. More so, effective and persistent action towards the good requires that you don't believe in this false dichotomy, for sustainable altruistic productivity necessitates both accurate models and positive motivations. Thus, the aspiring paradise engineer ought to be willing to take the Purple Pill to move onwards.
Released:
Nov 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (63)

The Qualia Research Institute (QRI.org) is a California 501(c)(3) non-profit research group studying consciousness in a consistent, meaningful, and rigorous way. Our goal is to spread the ideas of our institute in a more accessible way and to support the research being done by our members.