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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OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:05 NYDIG 00:01:25 Relating Psychotechnologies and Social Institutions 00:06:44 Social Institutions as Algorithms of Distributed Cognition 00:11:13 Analogizing the Industrial and Digital Ages 00:15:15 Reconfiguring Procedural Intelligence 00:18:01 Bureaucratic Rules are Designed to Replace Judgement 00:22:38 “Judges as the Philosophers of the Legal System” 00:25:37 Spirit Revivifies the Letter; Letter Concretizes the Spirit 00:26:15 “Wrestling with the Ontology of Property” 00:32:23 Central Banking as an Institution of Standardization 00:36:01 Bitcoin is the Incorruptible Standardization of Money 00:38:56 Money and Mead’s Generalized Other 00:41:47 Keynesian Economics is a Pseudo-Science 00:43:42 “A Needed Revision to the Anthropology of Economics” 00:48:55 “Science is Corruptible Too…”