The "What is Money?" Show

Society Is Breaking — And It’s Already Started w/ John Vervaeke

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Jan 23, 2026
John Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist and philosopher who studies meaning and wisdom traditions, joins to explore why society feels fractured. He discusses relevance realization, intelligibility, and how cognition mirrors reality. Short takes examine markets as distributed knowing and how action, attention, and tradition shape shared meaning.
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INSIGHT

Price Signals Convey Truth Or Noise

  • When money is manipulated, prices become noisy signals that hide real supply-and-demand information.
  • That noise functions as deception and violates savers' private property by eroding purchasing power.
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The One As A Verbual Principle

  • The 'One' is best seen as a verb: the principle that unifies and makes intelligibility possible.
  • Knowing and being belong together because the One enables both self-organization and acts of knowing.
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Cognition Mirrors Reality's Grammar

  • Cognition and reality share the same grammar of top-down constraints and bottom-up emergence.
  • Predictive processing and relevance realization mirror how being organizes itself.
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