How to pronounce "fool"

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Consciousness is not a part of the physical world.

It's a part of the spiritual world.

It belongs to the soul,

and the soul is not a part of the physical world.

That's the tradition of God, the soul and immortality.

There's another tradition that thinks it's opposed to this

but accepts the worst assumption.

That tradition thinks that we are heavy-duty scientific materialists:

Consciousness is not a part of the physical world.

Either it doesn't exist at all, or it's something else,

a computer program or some damn fool thing,

but in any case it's not part of science.

And I used to get in an argument that really gave me a stomachache.

Here's how it went.

Science is objective, consciousness is subjective,

therefore there cannot be a science of consciousness.

Okay, so these twin traditions are paralyzing us.

It's very hard to get out of these twin traditions.

And I have only one real message in this lecture,

and that is, consciousness is a biological phenomenon

like photosynthesis, digestion, mitosis --

Phonetic Breakdown of "fool"

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Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:

/fuːl/

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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

F UW1 L

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Definition of "fool"

Pronunciation: /fuːl/

Noun

A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

Example: "The village fool threw his own shoes down the well."
A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
Buddy, dude, man.
A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

Example: "an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool"
(often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

Verb

To trick; to deceive
To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

Adjective

Foolish.

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Words That Sound Like "fool"

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