Episode 78

The fourth in a series of episodes wherein Juliet and I begin by jointly consulting the I Ching (ancient Chinese oracle), getting hexagram 4 "Youthful Folly", and then see where that goes. Juliet elaborates on her rather startling assertion about the true nature of the Universe as consisting solely of sentient beings and experience. This takes us on a journey through cosmology, scales of physical reality, what it would be like to be a Tupperware box, what Hendrix meant by "Have you ever been experience?", gut bacteria and parasitology.

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Some relevant links:

• I Ching
• the sixty-four hexagrams
• hexagram 4: "youthful folly"
• oracles and divination
• sentience
• cosmic microwave background radiation
• Jimi Hendrix
• Outer Hebrides
• gut bacteria
• toxoplasmosis
• parasitology
• cordyceps (genus of parasitic fungus)