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The claim that spirits are immortal or inexplicable through physics is not necessarily intrinsic to animism.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“So there is an existence proof for such spirits, right? The question is, how does the spirit work? The claim that the spirit is immortal, that, uh, it's, uh, cannot be explained using physics and so on, is not necessarily a claim that is intrinsic to animism.”50:10Report a misattribution
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