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 00:01:23 Intro to the Work of John Vervaeke 00:10:58 Consciousness, Intelligence, and Relevance Realization 00:18:18 The Market and Distributed Cognition 00:22:08 Most Intelligence is Unconscious 00:26:32 Most Real-World Problems are Ill-Defined 00:28:44 Optimal Grip and Combinatorial Explosion 00:31:42 Consciousness and Aspectualization 00:33:45 The Transjectivity of Adaptivity 00:36:16 Self-Organizing vs. Auto-poetic 00:42:47 Toggling Between Generalization and Discrimination 00:45:49 Intelligence vs. Rationality 00:49:14 Attention, Interest, and Self-Deception 00:50:58 Rationality: Intelligently Overcoming Self-Deception 00:52:45 The Logos and Rationality