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 Technology vs. Psychotechnology 00:07:00 Digital Technology Blurs the Distinction 00:08:22 Accelerating the Proliferation of Psychotechnologies 00:10:21 Literacy and the Flynn Effect 00:12:32 Psychotechnology: A Gateway into Distributed Cognition 00:15:10 Distributed Cognition Inherent to the Free Market 00:16:39 The Printing Press Drives the Protestant Reformation 00:18:23 Literacy and Coinage Enable Standardization 00:20:44 Psychotechnologies, Protocols, and Cognitive Prosthetics 00:22:32 The Weakness of Monocultures and Centralization 00:24:33 Cognitive Flux Between Resiliency and Efficiency 00:26:08 Debt and Equity; Space and Time 00:27:45 The Difference Between Risk and Uncertainty 00:30:24 Agent and Arena: The Co-Determination of Identity 00:33:59 The Extent of Teleology in Reality 00:35:55 The Deep Continuity Hypothesis 00:38:28 Spinoza and Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality 00:41:51 Whitehead’s Bifurcation of Nature 00:43:27 Buddhist and Taoist Perspectives