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MC Hammer Studies Consciousness and Nature of Life Through Scientific Research
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A philosopher’s argument against the cult of achievement | Zena Hitz: Full Interview
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"I discovered at some point that he was posting scientific articles. Sometimes they were more popular scientific, but sometimes they were journal articles, and that he had a clearly particular interest, which he had studied to some depth into the nature of life and the nature of consciousness."
Hitz discovered rapper MC Hammer regularly posts scientific articles on Twitter, including academic journal papers, demonstrating serious self-directed study of consciousness and the nature of life. She cites this as evidence that profound intellectual engagement happens outside academic credentials, with Hammer studying topics like planaria regeneration to understand what defines living organisms.
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- A philosopher’s argument against the cult of achievement | Zena Hitz: Full Interview
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