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What Is a Metaphor?
Insight and humor often depend on metaphor. Metaphor is a way of speaking that triggers the shift between the left and right hemispheres, getting more common meaning out of one word than in another. Jokes are an important way too to notice the connections between insights and metaphors. Enthusiastic readers will be able to read this book for free online at CNN.com/Heroes.
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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GUEST
John’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john
John’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke
John’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY
PODCAST
Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1
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Transcript:
OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Introduction to The Power of Mythology
00:03:25 Logos vs. Mythos
00:05:16 The Metaphor
00:06:42 Metaphor, Insight Realization, and Humor
00:09:46 Metaphor and Cross-Domain Insight “Explosion”
00:10:53 Metaphor’s Connection to Procedural Knowledge
00:13:00 “Understanding, Grasping, Getting, and Seeing”
00:14:44 Relevance Realization: “Game Theory All The Way Down”
00:16:14 The Symbol
00:17:26 “How to Hold Justice In Mind”
00:18:32 The Cerebellum: Justice, Voluntary Movement, and Balance
00:19:56 Perspectival Knowing: Holding “Justice is Blind” in Mind
00:21:50 “You Don’t Just Know About Balance, You Enact It”
00:23:24 Proprioception: To Be “In Touch” With Something
00:24:19 How Things Shape the Mind: Material Engagement Theory
00:27:12 The Imaginal
00:29:50 “Trying on a Worldview”: Imaginal Augmentation of Reality
00:32:36 Virtue and the Construction of Sacred Canopies
00:33:52 NYDIG
00:35:02 Virtue is the Beauty of Wisdom
00:36:22 Supernatural Selection: The Human Capacity for “Religio”
00:37:57 “Narrative Turns You Into a Temporally-Extended Agent”
00:38:39 Personal Identity is Apriori and Allows for Aspiration
00:40:28 “Why A Dog Can Never Tell You About Its Parents…”
00:42:44 Mythos: A Psychotechnology for Perennial and Pertinent Patterns
00:44:08 Mythos in Action: Predator Emulating Prey
00:46:26 “A Dream is a Private Myth; A Myth is a Public Dream”
00:48:32 Alchemy Was the Dream from which Science Was Born
00:50:27 The Interdependence of The Mythos and The Logos
00:51:47 Metabolic Work and Reversal Theory; Goals and Activities
00:55:06 Play vs. Candy
00:57:06 “Play Relates to The Eternal; Work Relates to The Immortal”
SOCIAL
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WRITTEN WORK
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