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 The Mind as a Map of the Universe 00:05:29 The Recurrent Patterns in Nature 00:06:58 “Agency All The Way Down” 00:11:28 Serving What’s True, Good, and Beautiful 00:12:19 Synchronicity: The Acausal Principle 00:16:44 The Flow State: An Optimization of Adaptivity 00:17:52 Circumambulation 00:23:18 A Causes B; B Values Precondition A 00:24:45 Emergence and Emanation: Matter and Principles 00:27:31 Possibility and Actuality are Co-Determining 00:29:46 Homemaking vs. House-Building 00:33:37 Material Engagement Theory 00:34:54 Software and Hardware: Multiple Realizability 00:37:05 Human and Tool Reciprocity; The Stroop Effect 00:41:17 Mimesis, Self-Reflection, and Mindfulness 00:42:57 Distributed Cognition and Captaining the Ship 00:43:33 Social Institutions: Psychotechnologies Externalized? 00:46:06 Price Signals and Mead’s “Generalized Other” 00:50:45 The Generalizability and Discrimination Tradeoff 00:53:02 Does the Corruption of Money Corrupt Humanity? 00:59:22 The Social Utility of Religion and Institutions 01:03:10 Money as the Base Layer Protocol for Human Action 01:05:47 Central Banking Twists Distributed Cognition 01:07:25 Hyperbolic Discounting, Time Preference, and Consumerism 01:09:36 Central Banking Causes Capital Destruction and Politicization 01:13:22 Psychotechnological Disruption of Social Institutions 01:15:16 Politics as the Ethics of Distributed Cognition 01:18:04 Politics as Imposable Opinion 01:21:37 Bitcoin Moves Markets Away from the Threat of Force 01:27:41 Bitcoin: The Incorruptible Game of Money 01:29:59 “Parable of the Winemaker”: A Corruption of Money and Morality 01:36:04 Exploring the Languages of Value and Cognition 01:38:13 “Words are the Coinage of Thought” 01:41:12 Industrial Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery 01:45:55 Corruption of Money and the Meaning Crisis 01:55:39 Humans are “Natural-Born Cyborgs”