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John Vervaeke, PhD: Finding Your Meaning “In” and “Of” Life, Cancel Culture, and the Age of Disinformation | EP 390

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Is There No Peope Pople?

The ash experiment is an example of how the shape of our environment informs our mind. People can be within the same environment and alter o what they're finding salient in that, as well as draw out aspects of the environment that have previously been hidden to them. So we need to stop thinking about cognition in our head. Cognition is more like the adaptivity of an organism. It's between us and the world. In a kind of cognitive version of niche construction. Youre shaping how you're seeing me, but you're also shaping how you are presenting yourself to me. And you're trying to get those to loop in a way that is, you know, self organizing and effective for

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