WiM054 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 5 | A Psychotechnological Theory of Money
The "What is Money?" Show
Hyperbolic Discounting, Is That a Different Thing?
Saything: People idolize the dollar, people idolizing wealth and fiot culture. He says it's an economic tyranny, but it twists our perceptions on the world. The lower your time preference, the more long term oriented you are,. And the higher your time preferences, the more short-term you are. Saything: This lo g your cooptic.
John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."
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Transcript:
OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:05 NYDIG
00:01:23 The Mind as a Map of the Universe
00:05:29 The Recurrent Patterns in Nature
00:06:58 “Agency All The Way Down”
00:11:28 Serving What’s True, Good, and Beautiful
00:12:19 Synchronicity: The Acausal Principle
00:16:44 The Flow State: An Optimization of Adaptivity
00:17:52 Circumambulation
00:23:18 A Causes B; B Values Precondition A
00:24:45 Emergence and Emanation: Matter and Principles
00:27:31 Possibility and Actuality are Co-Determining
00:29:46 Homemaking vs. House-Building
00:33:37 Material Engagement Theory
00:34:54 Software and Hardware: Multiple Realizability
00:37:05 Human and Tool Reciprocity; The Stroop Effect
00:41:17 Mimesis, Self-Reflection, and Mindfulness
00:42:57 Distributed Cognition and Captaining the Ship
00:43:33 Social Institutions: Psychotechnologies Externalized?
00:46:06 Price Signals and Mead’s “Generalized Other”
00:50:45 The Generalizability and Discrimination Tradeoff
00:53:02 Does the Corruption of Money Corrupt Humanity?
00:59:22 The Social Utility of Religion and Institutions
01:03:10 Money as the Base Layer Protocol for Human Action
01:05:47 Central Banking Twists Distributed Cognition
01:07:25 Hyperbolic Discounting, Time Preference, and Consumerism
01:09:36 Central Banking Causes Capital Destruction and Politicization
01:13:22 Psychotechnological Disruption of Social Institutions
01:15:16 Politics as the Ethics of Distributed Cognition
01:18:04 Politics as Imposable Opinion
01:21:37 Bitcoin Moves Markets Away from the Threat of Force
01:27:41 Bitcoin: The Incorruptible Game of Money
01:29:59 “Parable of the Winemaker”: A Corruption of Money and Morality
01:36:04 Exploring the Languages of Value and Cognition
01:38:13 “Words are the Coinage of Thought”
01:41:12 Industrial Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery
01:45:55 Corruption of Money and the Meaning Crisis
01:55:39 Humans are “Natural-Born Cyborgs”
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