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I have never seen real supernatural powers

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In recent episodes we discussed the divine eye divine ear supernatural travel and mind reading

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As well as the extinction of defilements

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The comments were very lively

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Many viewers kept asking

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Do these powers really exist

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Do you believe in them

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Today I want to discuss this seriously

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As the creator of this channel

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Here is how I understand supernatural powers

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Hello

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Everyone

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I am Leo Wang

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Let me show my hand first

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For anything I have not seen myself

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Not personally helped verify

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Or investigated as a supernatural phenomenon

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I remain completely open minded

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It may exist

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Or it may not

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I will not draw a conclusion

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But today I will share a view that may make some viewers uncomfortable

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Of the five powers we usually discuss

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At least four

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Have long existed in other species

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Those abilities you find incredible

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Are everyday functions for many animals

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Let us examine them one by one

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First the divine eye

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How is it traditionally described

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Seeing what ordinary people cannot see

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Seeing distant scenes

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Sensing light beyond the reach of human eyes

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Mantis shrimp have sixteen kinds of light receptors

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How many do humans have

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Three

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We have only three kinds of cone cells

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For red green and blue light

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But the sixteen receptors of a mantis shrimp

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Cover a broad spectrum from deep ultraviolet to deep red

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And can detect polarized light

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Our world looks like an old three color television

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Its world is a sixteen channel hyperspectral imager

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The pit organs of rattlesnakes detect infrared radiation

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On a completely dark night

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They can see the heat outline of a mouse

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Clearly enough to launch a deadly strike

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They are born with thermal imaging

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Bees can see ultraviolet light

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Flower petals carry entire ultraviolet patterns

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Navigation markers designed for pollinators

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Like guide lights on an airport runway

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Humans see one kind of flower

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Bees see an entirely different world

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Think about it

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If someone could suddenly see infrared ultraviolet and polarized light

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We would surely say that person had opened the divine eye

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But snakes mantis shrimp and bees

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Have had this ability since birth

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It is not a supernatural power

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It is simply different hardware

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Next the divine ear

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It means hearing sounds ordinary people cannot hear

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And sounds from extremely far away

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Elephants communicate with infrasound

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Their fundamental calls are only around ten to thirty hertz

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Below or near the lower limit of human hearing

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These infrasonic waves travel several kilometers through the air

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And even farther through the ground

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They have been detected from over six kilometers away

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Two elephants several kilometers apart can talk to each other

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While you stand between them

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In complete silence

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You think nothing is happening

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While they are having a lively conversation

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More astonishingly

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In 2024

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A study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution

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Used machine learning and playback experiments

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And discovered something

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Elephants address each other with individually distinctive name like calls

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When they hear a call meant for them

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They respond clearly

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They are not merely sending signals

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They may be calling one another by name

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Bats use ultrasonic echolocation

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Some bats emit pulses near two hundred kilohertz

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Ten times the upper limit of human hearing

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Sound waves strike objects and bounce back

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Within milliseconds the bat brain

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Calculates the distance size and shape of a target

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And even its flight speed

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In complete darkness

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It sees more clearly than you do

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It simply does not use eyes

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It uses ears

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Is that not the divine ear

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Next supernatural travel

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Traditionally it means flight passing barriers and transcending spatial limits

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Nature offers no example of teleportation

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But in extreme physical movement

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What animals can do

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Still exceeds the limits of human imagination

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The bar tailed godwit

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A modestly sized shorebird

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Satellite tracking data from 2022 showed

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A five month old bird took off from Alaska

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And flew for eleven days and one hour

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Without landing or eating

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Covering thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty kilometers

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Before landing in Tasmania Australia

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Thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty kilometers

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Without a single stop

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If a human could do that

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You would surely call that person an immortal

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But for the bar tailed godwit

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It is the migration route they fly every autumn

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Peregrine falcons dive at nearly four hundred kilometers per hour

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Making them the fastest animals on Earth

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They lock onto prey at altitude and fold their wings

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Then dive vertically like precision guided weapons

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With both speed and accuracy at the limit

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Far beyond human reach

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None of this is teleportation

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But it reveals the limits of carbon based life

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And those limits

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Far exceed human imagination

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Then comes mind reading

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Buddhist texts describe it as sensing the thoughts of others

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No creature in nature

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Has been proven capable of directly reading

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The contents of another creatures mind

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But in emotional perception

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Many animals far surpass humans

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Dogs can smell your fear

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When you are afraid

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The composition of your sweat changes

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Releasing specific chemical molecules

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The olfactory receptor cells in a dog nose

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Number dozens of times more than ours

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So dogs can distinguish these changes

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Research suggests

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Dogs can even smell whether their owner is happy or anxious

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You think you have hidden it well

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But chemical signals from your body have already betrayed you

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Your emotional state is no secret to a dog

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It is a scent

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There is something even more incredible

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The octopus

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An octopus skin

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Can change in less than a second

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It does more than copy the color of its surroundings

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This is more than a simple color change

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Its whole body responds to information from the outside world in real time

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Every inch of its skin is sensing

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With no need to route signals through the brain

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The skin itself can sense light

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And responds even when removed from the body

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The entire octopus is a distributed sensing and communication system

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After a companion dies elephants gather around the body

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Others often approach embrace and groom it

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They were not taught to do this

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No Dao De Jing or Analects tells them to console companions

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They may directly feel the pain of the other

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This is not telepathy

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But it is an extraordinarily precise emotional sensing system

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That in some ways it surpasses humans

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We humans claim to have the most advanced brains

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Yet often cannot tell what the person across from us is thinking

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By now you should see a pattern

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The divine eye divine ear supernatural travel and mind reading

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All have counterparts of some degree in nature

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Nature has distributed these abilities among many species

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If someone gained through practice

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The infrared vision of a snake

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Or the ultrasonic navigation of a bat

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That would indeed exceed normal human ability

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But it would not be supernatural

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Because carbon based life has already shown

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These abilities can exist entirely within physical law

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Then what kind of supernatural event would truly leave me speechless

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Moving an object at a distance through thought

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Appearing instantly in another place

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Removing an object from a sealed container

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Abilities like these

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Have never been demonstrated by any organism on Earth

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And I have never witnessed them myself

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So I dare not say they definitely exist

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But I also dare not say they are impossible

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I would like to offer a framework for thinking

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I have discussed one hypothesis in many episodes

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We may live in a world like the simulation described in The Matrix

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A simulated world

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If the foundation of this universe is information

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Code or some computational structure

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Then what we call physical laws are not ultimate truths

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Think of a game you developed yourself

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If the characters in the game were conscious

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They would treat those physical rules as the ultimate laws of the universe

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But you know they are only code you wrote

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You can switch off gravity at any time

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You can add a portal

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That is only a change to one parameter

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If our universe really is some kind of simulation

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Then telekinesis and teleportation

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Would be local calls to the underlying rules

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If someone truly could

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I would not find it inconceivable

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In a Buddhist world where all appearances are illusory

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Nothing is absolutely impossible

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But I want to add one speculation

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If such rule changes could truly be triggered

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I do not think they would belong to only one person

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They would more likely be a general rule

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Once the underlying code permits an operation

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Every conscious being meeting the conditions should be able to invoke it

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It would not create one unique superbeing

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It would open a door that everyone could walk through

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Like a skill tree in a game

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It is not limited to one player

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Every player reaching that level can unlock it

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This latter part is my own reasoning and speculation

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I need to state that honestly

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It follows from the major premise of a universe simulated by code

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If the premise fails

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The reasoning fails as well

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But among the five powers

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One requires none of this speculation

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It involves no supernatural assumption

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No simulation hypothesis

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And no modification of underlying code

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It is present in your everyday life

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And you can practice it at any time

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It is the extinction of defilements

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As we discussed in earlier episodes

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It is the only one of the five powers directed inward

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It is not the gain of a new ability

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But the removal of an old obstacle

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Defilement

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Means the leaking of mental afflictions

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Greed anger ignorance pride and doubt

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These noises constantly seep from deep within consciousness

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Distorting your perception of reality

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Their extinction

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Means all that noise has finally stopped

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You can understand it this way

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The first four powers install new sensory hardware

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The divine eye gives you stronger eyes

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The divine ear gives you more sensitive ears

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But the extinction of defilements moves in the opposite direction

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It does not add anything

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It removes things

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From your sensory equipment

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The dust scratches and filters accumulated over many years

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It wipes them all away

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A viewer once left a comment that stayed with me

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They said

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The extinction of defilements is not an upgrade in ability

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It is an exit from centralized encoding

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That was remarkably precise

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It does not grant you superpowers

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It lets you stop being disturbed

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We spent several earlier episodes discussing one central idea

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Your senses are translators

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Not windows

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You can never directly touch the external world itself

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What you touch

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Is always produced by your nervous system

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As its translation of physical stimuli

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Even if you upgraded your hardware to the level of a mantis shrimp

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With all sixteen light receptors

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What you see still would not be reality itself

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Only a higher resolution translation

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The direction is wrong

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Perhaps our fascination with the first four powers

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Reveals a cognitive trap

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Why do we want the divine eye and divine ear so badly

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Is it because we always think truth is outside

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Far away

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Somewhere we cannot yet see

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But truth has never been far away

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It is inside your consciousness

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Hidden in the way that translation machine operates

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Behind automatic filters you never noticed

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The power truly worth pursuing

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Does not let you see more things outside

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It lets you see clearly what is happening inside

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To see how the translation machine itself works

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To see where it secretly adds assumptions you never knew about

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To see which realities you firmly believe

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Are actually narratives generated automatically by the brain

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That is why Buddhism ranks the extinction of defilements first among the five powers

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Not because it is the strongest

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But because it is the most fundamental

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You may possess the divine eye

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But if greed remains

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Everything you see will be colored by greed

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You may possess the divine ear

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But if anger remains

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Everything you hear will be distorted by anger

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Without the extinction of defilements as a foundation

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The other four powers build on a crooked foundation

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This alone requires no hardware upgrade

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And no other species has achieved it for you

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What do you think

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I especially want to ask one question

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Have you personally witnessed someone display abilities beyond ordinary humans

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Not something retold by others

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Something you saw there yourself

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If so

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Do you think it was supernatural

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Or beyond normal human ability

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How do you know you did not see an advanced magic trick or psychological suggestion

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But something possible only after reaching a certain level through practice

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Is there any way to distinguish the two

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Share your experience and thoughts in the comments

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Let us discuss it together

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I am Leo Wang

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See you next time