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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

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Optimum Grip

Elean: I can show you how you're optimately gripping in an abstract cognitive domain. Ok? So a mammal goes by, and most people will say, there's a dog. Well, there's there'. There is obvious between those two options. It's at the level of your categorization. Elean: You ivalv these models of the world around you, and on top of them, you do stuff like, you build representations that you said, what's the salience landscape? Salience meaning at tention landscape. That's bottom up. But i can also say, your left big toe and now it's salient toyou because you directed your attention towards it

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