The "What is Money?" Show WiM048 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 3 | Money as a (Psycho)technology
Fiat Money Addiction Cycle
- Fiat currency behaves like an addiction with diminishing returns from continuous money printing.
- It starts with stimulus but leads to uncontrollable inflation and economic damage over time.
Money as Psychotechnology
- Money acts as a psychotechnology that extends cognition by structuring trust and exchange.
- It links individual and distributed cognition, empowering civilization's complexity.
Literacy as Cognitive Technology
- Literacy is a key psychotechnology that enhances cognition by enabling symbol-based communication.
- It transforms self-awareness and collective knowledge across time and space.
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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Transcript:
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…
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