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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Do You Think It's Possible to Get a Sensation of Objective Reality?

Do you think it's possible to get a sense of objective reality? So, is it possible to have to get to the ground level of what something that you can call objective truth? Or is it, are we always on shaky ground? I think those moments of transcendence can never get us to an absolute view from nowhere. This is Drew Heiland's notion of finite transcendence. We are capable of self-transcendence. And therefore, we are creatures who can actually raise the question of truth or goodness or beauty.

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