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Ep. 36 - Religio, Perennial Problems, and Reverse Engineering Enlightenment

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Problem With the Reflectiveness Gap

As I open up this reflectiveness gap, I'm gaining agency. But if I keep opening it up, do I keep enhancing agency? No. Because then you get into the problem that is typified beautifully, by the way, in one of our great tragedies, namely Hamlet. Hamlet is always reflecting, and he's always reflecting on his reflection. He becomes disconnected from the motivational machinery of interacting with the world. He loses agency. As I open it up, I gain agency. But as I push it too far, I lose it. There's a tradeoff relationship between them. It's also part of relevance realization. What about metamining? Well, there's

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