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Oh, the wonderful discoveries

That the spirit of enlightenment brings us,

And experience, child of hard-won mistakes,

And genius, paradox’s best friend,

And chance, that god of invention…

A. S. Pushkin

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So, in the last lecture and the Q&A, we figured out the following: you need to serve up information in courses—which is to say, first, second, and third. Because milk is for babies, while steak tartare is for the anti-vegetarian crowd.

So, let's get started—with proper blessings, of course—with the first dish from our little diner: plain old semolina porridge.

In the previous lecture, through the highly scientific method of poking at things (and if you didn’t poke at anything, you’re on your own), we discovered that most people just can’t think. We also covered the reasons for this sorry state of affairs—mainly society’s ongoing need for lots of barnyard animals, since, unfortunately, we’re all still stuck in a pretty primitive farm setup. And of course, saber-toothed rabbits could find their place in this whole setup, but really, we don’t need a giant herd of them.

So, we’ll just be growing our own fangs, using whatever homemade guerrilla methods we can come up with.

So, what’s the point of thinking, anyway? First and foremost, to make sense of the world around us and its stuff. But let’s get specific here—we’re not exactly kids anymore, and we’ve muddled our way through part of this world already. So, our mission to understand things gets a little narrower: we’re after a method for figuring out the parts of the world that still baffle us, while making do with our half-baked grasp on the rest.

As the mathematicians say, asking the right question is half the answer.

But let's just eyeball the world for a sec—no need for extra drama or panic—yep, it's the world, full of stuff, loads of it, a ridiculous number of unknowns, but…

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If you pay close attention here, you'll notice the following:

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1) A lot of things in the world are just copies of each other.

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2) Most things out there are variant copies of copies.

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3) If you look closely, you’ll notice the world is just a bunch of mirrors, all reflecting each other in one way or another.

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So what does that do for us?

Well, first off, there’s the legendary line from Hermes’ tablet: 'As above, so below; as below, so above…'

This is a universal law for everything—consciousness, matter, you name it. Basically, it goes both ways; what works one way works in reverse, too.

And honestly, there aren't even that many universal laws in existence.

In other words, we can confidently add this law to our mental arsenal as a universal principle that actually keeps a ton of things ticking—both in our world and in mysterious realms we haven't even heard of.