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 How Gold Led to Fiat Currency 00:06:00 Fiat Currency and Addiction 00:12:01 Defining Psychotechnology 00:15:22 Psychotechnology, Intelligence, and Identity 00:17:36 Money as a Psychotechnology 00:22:20 Empowerment and Identification Processes 00:24:27 Modal Confusion (Having vs. Being) 00:30:49 The Wisdom of Money 00:34:52 Central Bank Psychotechnological Manipulation 00:39:00 Property and The Tragedy of the Commons 00:43:33 The Procedural Knowledge of Nature 00:45:50 Introduction to Metaphysics 00:52:42 The “Transjectivity” of Relevance 00:54:36 The Intelligibility of Reality 00:58:06 Being: “An Inexhaustible Fount of Intelligibility” 01:01:33 Aristotle’s Conformity Theory of Knowing 01:05:57 The Principles of “Knowing Thyself” 01:08:40 Plato’s Cave 01:10:06 Defining Exaptation 01:13:42 Metaphors as Fossils of Language 01:16:27 More About John’s Work…