That shift didn't just change astronomy.

It transformed people's beliefs about our place in the universe.

There's a big dose of humility that comes with that.

Anytime you're going through some adversity,

you might be tempted to have this thought.

Why is this happening to me?

Just by switching that word two to the word four, I think is a radically different psychological

impact.

The world of matter is the materialistic world.

And then there's this world of what matters, you know, what's actually relevant to how we should act in the world.

Suffice it to say, the metaphors we use to understand ourselves in the world can radically

enhance or radically detriment the accuracy with which we are perceiving reality.

So the book we're going to go through today is titled Models, Metaphor and Meaning by

Joe Daniel Witts.

Hey, everybody.

We're going to be doing something that we've done before today, which is like a solo podcast. So I'm just going to be,

I put together an outline. I have it on a teleprompter in front of me. So I'm going to be

working my way through this outline to explore a book with you and apologize in advance.

Sometimes people say when I use the teleprompter, it produces crazy eyes.

So if you're watching this, sorry for the crazy eyes.

The book we're going to go through today, and this is something I've been thinking a lot about recently.

Just as a little backstory, this started with me for the book when i read the book metaphors we

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