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 00:01:25 Distributed Cognition Can Be Self-Deceptive 00:05:18 Collapse of the Bronze Age and The Logic of Violence 00:09:44 Economics of Violence: Knighthood and Gunpowder 00:14:26 Insight Machinery: Finding vs. Solving Problems 00:16:31 Distributed Cognition: An Adaptive Response of Ancient Man 00:19:21 General Systems Collapse 00:25:53 Voluntary Exchange and Habermas’s Discourse Ethics 00:31:21 Reconciling Science and Religion? 00:35:33 The Purposes of Religion? 00:39:42 Sacred Canopies: Religion and Money? 00:43:37 Assimilating and Accommodating with Religion 00:45:01 Religion as Distributed Cognition’s Salience Landscaping 00:48:57 Bitcoin as the Lapis Philosophorum 00:53:24 “Symbolic Machinery of Identification Changes Behavior” 00:57:50 “Now We are Becoming Friends” 01:01:52 Theory, Morality, and Virtue Epistemology 01:03:36 Personal Transformations through Bitcoin 01:07:55 “Software Updates” to Distributed Cognition 01:11:37 The Self-Disruption of Social Institutions? 01:12:43 The Old Virtue of Being Understanding