…more like habits. This was suggested by the American philosopher C.S. Peirce around 1900. And William James thought about this. The philosopher Nietzsche also mentioned it. They didn't develop the idea, but the idea was sort of in the air. And What I was…

…de Spinoza. Spinoza's philosophy, I think today we live in a post-Cartesian, post-Christian world. And I take that partly from Nietzsche. I believe that a lot of the ecological problem, crisis that we have, and the so-called hard problem of consciousness,…

…again, human beings would not be created again. But it seems to me it's just as oppressive either way. What bothered Nietzsche was the idea of the eternal recurrence. He viewed that as such a nauseating prospect that he really tolerated, he contemplated…

…is a unique and unrepeatable phenomenon, whereas it might be the other way around. No, but I think there's a real difference. Nietzsche and others that the fear behind that is that there's no directionality this is the platonic grade year that it goes…

…fear, and that we certainly have. I don't know how else to respond to that. I don't mean to sound elitist, but Dennett and Nietzsche one group and then there's homo ordinarius which has also done it me and everyone else and uh i don't know it seems to…