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Digital Salon with John Vervaeke: The Meaning Crisis

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Meaning in Life - It's a Metaphor for the Kind of Meaning

The meaning i'm talking about a it is especially what's called meaning in life. It's the kind of meaning, not so much of sentences, but think about a the meaning of a sentence. No there's a way in which a sentence te pieces cohere together, fit together, make sense together and connect you to the world in an appropriate way. We are seeking connections to ourselves, to each other and to the world. And that's extremely adaptive. Icaus extremely adaptive. But here's the core idea, that adaptive connection that we seek, the processes that generate it, are also the self same processes that make you subject to self deceptive behavior. Yeasi: Self deception

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