Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Ep. 37 - Reverse Engineering Enlightenment: Part 2
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Sep 27, 2019 AI Snips
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Meaning Crisis Components
- The meaning crisis has two components: historical factors and perennial problems.
- Perennial problems arise because the adaptive machinery of religio also makes us vulnerable to self-deception.
Understanding Religio
- Understand the core features of religio: functional, structural, and developmental.
- These features contribute to our adaptability and vulnerability to self-deception.
Perennial Problems and Cognition
- Perennial problems like parasitic processing, modal confusion, and the reflectiveness gap arise from our cognitive machinery.
- These problems manifest as absurdity, anxiety, and alienation, hindering our ability to connect.