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ROBERT ANTON WILSON

The thinker-prover loop isn't a theory, it's a machine you're trapped in and it's so good at confirming itself that it makes you think your beliefs are reality. But they're not, they're symptoms of this loop.

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What if your entire personality was just software—written by parents, schools, ads, trauma, and culture? 🤔 This is pt. 1 of the series.

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