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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Functionality to Religion?

"There's a functionality to religion that we lost when we rejected all the propositional dogma," he says. "We don't know how to recreate it, but I think I have an answer." In e-cognitive science there are many different ways of knowing, including procedural and Propositional Knowing. This is where skills are not theories; they're not beliefs or true or false. They engage the world or they don't.

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