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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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I Don't Think Mythos Is Really Important

A myth is like a public dream. It depends on distributed cognition, collective intelligence and cultivate a shared flow state within that collective intelligence. I just wish they would shut up in my head sometimes. So what are they saying to you in your head? What they're saying it, well, see, that's what the most recent conversation was about. The highest form of dialogue of conversation is this flow state which forms the foundation for myth building.

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