After the release of Ben Pace's extended interview with me about my views on religion, I felt inspired to publish more of my thinking about religion in a format that's more detailed, compact, and organized. This post is the second publication in my series of intended posts about religion.

Thanks to Ben Pace, Chris Lakin, Richard Ngo, Damon Pourtahmaseb-Sasi, Marcello Herreshoff, Renshin Lauren Lee, Mark Miller, Roger Thisdell, and Imam Ammar Amonette for their feedback on this post, and thanks to Kaj Sotala, Tomáš Gavenčiak, Paul Colognese, and David Spivak for reviewing earlier versions of this post. Thanks especially to Renshin Lauren Lee, Roger Thisdell, and Imam Ammar Amonette for their input on my claims about perennialism, and Mark Miller for vetting my claims about predictive processing.

In my previous post, I introduced the idea that there are broad convergences among the mystical traditions of the major [...]

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Outline:

(02:22) The Goodness of Reality

(08:45) We reap what we sow

(12:27) Immoral behavior as confusion

(16:30) The “afterlife” as the highest-order bit for how to live

(24:12) Perennialism and moral philosophy

The original text contained 19 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.