The "What is Money?" Show WiM043 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 1 | Consciousness, Intelligence, and Relevance Realization
Sep 3, 2021
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Understanding the Meaning Crisis
- John Vervaeke explains the meaning crisis as a failure to cultivate wisdom amidst an information glut.
- Wisdom enables overcoming self-deception and promotes flourishing connections to self, others, and the world.
Intelligence as Relevance Realization
- Intelligence is the ability to solve problems by realizing what information is relevant and ignoring the rest.
- This relevance realization helps manage overwhelming information and is central to general intelligence.
Consciousness Handles Novelty
- Most of our intelligence is unconscious, handling complex problems without awareness.
- Consciousness arises mainly when facing novel or ill-defined problems requiring focused attention.