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John Vervaeke on Relevance Realization

Deconstructing Yourself

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The Experience of Integration

It might be that our fittedness to our environment has different set points. Maybe we're stuck in a really quotidian set point or like local minimum. But maybe way over here, outside of this local minimum, there's a much more relevant zone of wisdom and meaning and connectedness to life... And so how do we move towards that? Yeah, no, excellent. So think about it, the very processes that make you adaptively fitted also make you perennially susceptible to self-deceptive behavior that actually undermines your connectedness to the world. Because remember, this adaptive process is having you ignore so much.

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