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John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom | Lex Fridman Podcast #317

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John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX to get $35 off - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil - Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off EPISODE LINKS: John's YouTube: https://youtube.com/johnvervaeke John's Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john John's Facebook: https://facebook.com/VervaekeJohn John's Website: https://johnvervaeke.com Books mentioned: Flow: https://amzn.to/3cQDby9 On Bullshit: https://amzn.to/3PZDvYW The Denial of Death: https://amzn.to/3KsIctp PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:10 - Meaning 21:24 - Consciousness 30:24 - Relevance realization 41:47 - Wisdom 49:01 - Truth 53:46 - Reality 1:06:06 - Meaning crisis 1:29:35 - Religion 1:37:25 - Nontheism 1:52:34 - Distributed cognition 2:10:45 - Flow 2:30:42 - Psychedelics 2:39:10 - Marxism and Nazism 2:51:15 - Evil 2:55:27 - Powerful ideas 3:02:17 - Advice for young people SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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'text': 'and we have lots of evidence that people are willing to sacrifice their biological existence for a death they consider meaningful.', 'start': 687.484, 'duration': 8.203}, {'end': 698.308, 'text': 'Are you personally afraid of your death??', 'start': 696.167, 'duration': 2.141}], 'summary': 'Human capacity to consider certain deaths meaningful, evidenced by willingness to sacrifice for meaningful death.', 'duration': 26.129, 'max_score': 672.179, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g672179.jpg'}, {'end': 855.425, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 802.102, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 808.533, 'text': "that life is full of moments that are beautiful, and then you don't get an infinite number of them.", 'start': 802.102, 'duration': 6.431}, {'end': 815.539, 'text': 'Right, and the stoic response was not the project of trying to extend the duration of your life,', 'start': 809.355, 'duration': 6.184}, {'end': 826.321, 'text': 'but to deepen those moments so they become as satisfying as possible, so that when death comes, it does not strike you as any kind of calamity.', 'start': 815.539, 'duration': 10.782}, {'end': 831.522, 'text': 'Does that project ring true for your own personal feelings? I think so.', 'start': 826.761, 'duration': 4.761}, {'end': 834.302, 'text': 'Do you think about immortality? I used to.', 'start': 831.862, 'duration': 2.44}, {'end': 835.803, 'text': "I don't so much anymore.", 'start': 834.322, 'duration': 1.481}, {'end': 845.318, 'text': "Part of it, as I'm older and your temporal horizon flips, somewhere in your 30s or 40s.", 'start': 839.383, 'duration': 5.935}, {'end': 848.34, 'text': "You don't live from your birth, you live towards your death.", 'start': 845.338, 'duration': 3.002}, {'end': 850.161, 'text': "That's such a beautiful phrase.", 'start': 848.881, 'duration': 1.28}, {'end': 852.403, 'text': 'The temporal horizon flips.', 'start': 850.522, 'duration': 1.881}, {'end': 853.804, 'text': "That's so true.", 'start': 853.043, 'duration': 0.761}, {'end': 855.425, 'text': "That's so true.", 'start': 854.705, 'duration': 0.72}], 'summary': "Stoic philosophy deepens life's moments for more satisfaction, as temporal horizon shifts with age.", 'duration': 53.323, 'max_score': 802.102, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g802102.jpg'}], 'start': 0.049, 'title': 'Mortality, fate, and human behavior', 'summary': 'Delves into mortality, fate, and the human search for meaning, emphasizing the unpredictability of life and its impact on mental health and behavior. it explores the interconnectedness of these themes and their influence on decision-making, fear, and the pursuit of meaning, supported by empirical evidence and philosophical perspectives.', 'chapters': [{'end': 49.598, 'start': 0.049, 'title': 'Mortality and fate', 'summary': 'Discusses mortality and fate, highlighting the unpredictability of life and the impact it has on our plans and projects, using the example of meeting the love of your life only to be hit by a truck and die, emphasizing that every moment we are subject to fate.', 'duration': 49.549, 'highlights': ['The unpredictability of life and the impact it has on our plans and projects, using the example of meeting the love of your life only to be hit by a truck and die.', 'Emphasizing that every moment we are subject to fate.', "The concept of 'lots of little deaths' experienced when our projects and plans come up against the fact that the universe can just roll over them."]}, {'end': 394.323, 'start': 50.298, 'title': 'Awakening from the meaning crisis', 'summary': 'Discusses the meaning crisis, human search for meaning, and its impact on mental health, highlighting the interconnectedness and the historical and existential aspects of the crisis.', 'duration': 344.025, 'highlights': ['The meaning crisis is a result of increased depression, loneliness, cynicism, and existential anxiety in modern times. These negative aspects in modern times contribute to the meaning crisis, impacting mental health and well-being.', "Meaning in life is characterized by a sense of connectedness to oneself, others, and the world, as well as to things with value and existence independent of one's preferences. The concept of meaning in life revolves around the interconnectedness to oneself, others, and the world, emphasizing the importance of being connected to entities with independent value.", 'The intersection of perennial problems and historical factors has exacerbated the meaning crisis, making it more difficult for people to address existential issues. The meaning crisis is influenced by both perennial issues like experiencing existential anxiety and historical forces that have diminished resources traditionally used to tackle these problems.']}, {'end': 908.686, 'start': 395.123, 'title': "Mortality's impact on human behavior", 'summary': 'Discusses the profound impact of human finitude on behavior, highlighting the influence of mortality on decision-making, fear, and the pursuit of meaning, supported by empirical evidence from terror management theory and philosophical perspectives from stoicism and buddhism.', 'duration': 513.563, 'highlights': ['The ultimate problematic aspect of the human condition is mortality, which influences decision-making and behavior. The discussion emphasizes the significant impact of mortality on human behavior, particularly in decision-making and the pursuit of meaning.', 'Terror management theory suggests that the contemplation of death affects cognitive flexibility and worldview identification, with first-person perspective yielding different responses. Empirical evidence from terror management theory demonstrates the influence of contemplating death on cognitive flexibility and worldview identification, with distinct responses based on the perspective taken.', 'The chapter explores the distinction between meaningful and meaningless deaths, indicating that individuals are willing to sacrifice their biological existence for meaningful deaths. The discussion delves into the concept of meaningful and meaningless deaths, highlighting evidence that individuals are willing to sacrifice their biological existence for deaths they consider meaningful.', 'The impact of mortality on human behavior is further supported by philosophical perspectives from Stoicism and Buddhism, emphasizing the appreciation of fleeting moments and the pursuit of deepening life experiences. Philosophical perspectives from Stoicism and Buddhism underscore the impact of mortality on human behavior, emphasizing the appreciation of fleeting moments and the pursuit of deepening life experiences.', 'The shift in temporal horizon as individuals age is discussed, reflecting a transition from infinite possibilities to a focus on living towards death, influenced by philosophical and spiritual influences. 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I think mind and life go away completely when we die.', 'start': 919.821, 'duration': 8.063}, {'end': 935.968, 'text': "And I think that's actually significantly important for the kind of beings that we are.", 'start': 928.765, 'duration': 7.203}, {'end': 941.39, 'text': 'We are the kinds of beings that can come to that awareness,', 'start': 937.568, 'duration': 3.822}], 'summary': 'Living with meta-desires as a constant frame, post-death belief: mind and life cease to exist.', 'duration': 32.704, 'max_score': 908.686, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g908686.jpg'}, {'end': 1257.047, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1223.561, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1229.687, 'text': "Now, the reason why distributed cognition doesn't have consciousness I think is a little bit more tricky.", 'start': 1223.561, 'duration': 6.126}, {'end': 1241.338, 'text': "And I think there's no reason in principle why there couldn't be a consciousness for distributed cognition, collective intelligence.", 'start': 1231.548, 'duration': 9.79}, {'end': 1246.077, 'text': 'In fact, many philosophers would agree with me on that point.', 'start': 1242.554, 'duration': 3.523}, {'end': 1257.047, 'text': "I think it's more an issue of certain empirical facts, bandwidth, density of connections, speed of information transfer, et cetera.", 'start': 1246.297, 'duration': 10.75}], 'summary': 'Distributed cognition lacks consciousness due to empirical limitations like bandwidth and information transfer speed.', 'duration': 33.486, 'max_score': 1223.561, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g1223561.jpg'}, {'end': 1513.078, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1490.782, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 1501.97, 'text': "but the mechanisms that create consciousness could be deeply interlinked with whatever is doing the memory access, that's doing the cognition.", 'start': 1490.782, 'duration': 11.188}, {'end': 1513.078, 'text': "So I guess what I'm trying to say in this we'll probably sneak up to this question a few times which is whether we can build machines that are conscious.", 'start': 1502.49, 'duration': 10.588}], 'summary': 'Mechanisms creating consciousness may be interlinked with memory access and cognition, raising the question of building conscious machines.', 'duration': 22.296, 'max_score': 1490.782, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g1490782.jpg'}, {'end': 1656.054, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1629.063, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1637.248, 'text': "perhaps consciousness i think that's where i place my bets is in the current endeavors around artificial general intelligence,", 'start': 1629.063, 'duration': 8.185}, {'end': 1648.313, 'text': 'and so tackling that problem head-on, which is now become central, at least to a group of cognitive scientists, is, i think, what needs to be done.', 'start': 1637.248, 'duration': 11.065}, {'end': 1656.054, 'text': 'And when you think about AGI, do you think about systems that have consciousness?', 'start': 1651.611, 'duration': 4.443}], 'summary': 'Tackling the central problem of artificial general intelligence, focusing on consciousness and its role in agi.', 'duration': 26.991, 'max_score': 1629.063, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g1629063.jpg'}], 'start': 908.686, 'title': 'Meta-desires and consciousness', 'summary': 'Explores living in line with meta-desires and rejects panpsychism and immaterial substance. it also discusses distributed cognition, collective intelligence, consciousness complexity, and the interlinkage of consciousness and memory access.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1015.284, 'start': 908.686, 'title': 'Meta-desires and immortality', 'summary': 'Explores living in line with meta-desires and addresses the idea of mind and life after 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intelligence exists, there is no evidence for collective consciousness. it delves into the complexity of consciousness, the nature and function of consciousness, and the potential for a group consciousness based on empirical facts.', 'duration': 377.268, 'highlights': ['The chapter discusses the concept of distributed cognition and argues that while collective intelligence exists, there is no evidence for collective consciousness. The primary focus of the discussion, emphasizing the distinction between collective intelligence and consciousness.', 'The potential for a group consciousness based on empirical facts is explored, considering factors like bandwidth, density of connections, and speed of information transfer. An important consideration, presenting the possibility and limitations of a group consciousness based on existing empirical facts.', 'The distinction between the nature and function of consciousness is highlighted, suggesting an integrated approach to understanding both aspects. Emphasizing the complexity of consciousness and the need for an integrated understanding of its nature and function.']}, {'end': 1906.011, 'start': 1394.121, 'title': 'Consciousness and intelligence', 'summary': 'Discusses the incoherence of addressing consciousness and qualia separately, the potential interlinkage between consciousness and memory access, the efforts in cognitive science towards artificial general intelligence, and the central problem of filtering out information in general intelligence.', 'duration': 511.89, 'highlights': ['The incoherence of addressing consciousness and qualia separately Many published articles address either qualia or consciousness separately, but the speaker argues that this approach is ultimately incoherent.', 'The potential interlinkage between consciousness and memory access The mechanisms creating consciousness may be deeply interlinked with memory access and cognition, suggesting a potential connection between consciousness and intelligence.', 'Efforts in cognitive science towards artificial general intelligence The speaker places hope in the project of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a way to advance scientific understanding of cognition, intelligence, and possibly consciousness.', 'The central problem of filtering out information in general intelligence The challenge of filtering out a massive amount of data to focus on relevant information is highlighted as a significant unsolved problem in artificial general intelligence.']}], 'duration': 997.325, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g908686.jpg', 'highlights': ['The chapter explores living in line with meta-desires and rejects panpsychism and immaterial substance.', 'The concept of distributed cognition and the distinction between collective intelligence and consciousness are discussed.', 'The incoherence of addressing consciousness and qualia separately is highlighted, along with the potential interlinkage between consciousness and memory access.', 'Efforts in cognitive science towards artificial general intelligence and the central problem of filtering out information in general intelligence are emphasized.']}, {'end': 2876.756, 'segs': [{'end': 1993.045, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1934.631, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1944.399, 'text': 'I think relevance realization refers to, again, constraints on how you are paying attention.', 'start': 1934.631, 'duration': 9.768}, {'end': 1954.129, 'text': "And so for me, talking about framing is talking about this process you're doing right now of salience landscaping.", 'start': 1945.18, 'duration': 8.949}, {'end': 1956.151, 'text': "What's salient to you?", 'start': 1955.25, 'duration': 0.901}, {'end': 1962.88, 'text': "And how is what's salient constantly shifting in a sort of a dynamic tapestry?", 'start': 1957.593, 'duration': 5.287}, {'end': 1975.396, 'text': 'And how are you shaping yourself to the way that salience landscaping is aspectualizing the world, shaping it into aspects for interaction?', 'start': 1964.431, 'duration': 10.965}, {'end': 1982.04, 'text': 'For me, that is a much more primordial process than any sort of beliefs we have.', 'start': 1975.877, 'duration': 6.163}, {'end': 1983.2, 'text': "And here's why.", 'start': 1982.56, 'duration': 0.64}, {'end': 1993.045, 'text': "If we mean by beliefs a representational proposition, then we're in this very problematic position.", 'start': 1984.821, 'duration': 8.224}], 'summary': 'Relevance realization is about attention constraints and salience landscaping, a primordial process that shapes interaction.', 'duration': 58.414, 'max_score': 1934.631, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g1934631.jpg'}, {'end': 2129.401, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2089.663, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 2090.744, 'text': 'It changes the morphology.', 'start': 2089.663, 'duration': 1.081}, {'end': 2093.603, 'text': 'You also have a loop.', 'start': 2091.943, 'duration': 1.66}, {'end': 2095.024, 'text': "It's your sensory motor loop.", 'start': 2093.984, 'duration': 1.04}, {'end': 2104.226, 'text': "And what's constantly happening is there are processes within you that are opening up variation and also processes that are putting selection on it.", 'start': 2095.784, 'duration': 8.442}, {'end': 2107.147, 'text': "And you're constantly evolving that sensory motor loop.", 'start': 2104.546, 'duration': 2.601}, {'end': 2114.589, 'text': "So you might call your cognitive fittedness, which is how you're framing the world, is constantly evolving and changing.", 'start': 2107.547, 'duration': 7.042}, {'end': 2116.61, 'text': 'I can give you two clear examples of that.', 'start': 2114.889, 'duration': 1.721}, {'end': 2120.071, 'text': 'One, right? Your autonomic nervous system.', 'start': 2117.27, 'duration': 2.801}, {'end': 2122.354, 'text': 'Parasympathetic and sympathetic.', 'start': 2120.933, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 2129.401, 'text': 'The sympathetic system is biased to trying to interpret as much of reality as threat or opportunity.', 'start': 2122.394, 'duration': 7.007}], 'summary': 'Constantly evolving sensory motor loop impacts cognitive fittedness.', 'duration': 39.738, 'max_score': 2089.663, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g2089663.jpg'}, {'end': 2270.871, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2244.761, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 2255.505, 'text': "So you have to evolve your sensory motor loop in order to get the optimal grip that actually creates the affordance of you getting to a goal that you're trying to get to.", 'start': 2244.761, 'duration': 10.744}, {'end': 2260.987, 'text': "Yeah, but you're describing physical goals of manipulating objects.", 'start': 2256.165, 'duration': 4.822}, {'end': 2270.871, 'text': 'So this applies, the task, the process of relevance realization is not just about getting a glass of water and taking a drink.', 'start': 2261.827, 'duration': 9.044}], 'summary': 'Evolve sensory motor loop for optimal grip and goal attainment.', 'duration': 26.11, 'max_score': 2244.761, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g2244761.jpg'}, {'end': 2576.776, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2547.393, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 2554.636, 'text': 'Right, so whereas knowledge overcomes ignorance, wisdom is about overcoming foolishness.', 'start': 2547.393, 'duration': 7.243}, {'end': 2561.418, 'text': 'If what we mean by foolishness is self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior, which I think is a good definition of foolishness.', 'start': 2554.776, 'duration': 6.642}, {'end': 2569.591, 'text': "And so what you're doing, is you're doing this recursive relevance realization.", 'start': 2562.719, 'duration': 6.872}, {'end': 2576.776, 'text': "You're using your intelligence to improve the use of your intelligence, and then you're using your rationality to improve the use of your rationality.", 'start': 2569.631, 'duration': 7.145}], 'summary': 'Wisdom involves overcoming self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior by recursively improving intelligence and rationality.', 'duration': 29.383, 'max_score': 2547.393, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g2547393.jpg'}, {'end': 2711.586, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2684.642, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 2688.525, 'text': "It's always an icebreaker in certain academic settings.", 'start': 2684.642, 'duration': 3.883}, {'end': 2693.949, 'text': "So let's contrast the bullshit artist from the liar.", 'start': 2689.726, 'duration': 4.223}, {'end': 2697.272, 'text': 'The liar depends on your commitment to the truth.', 'start': 2694.31, 'duration': 2.962}, {'end': 2711.586, 'text': 'The bullshit artist is actually trying to make you indifferent to the question of truth and modify your behavior by making things salient to you so that they are catchy to you.', 'start': 2699.019, 'duration': 12.567}], 'summary': 'Distinguishing between a liar and a bullshit artist in academic settings.', 'duration': 26.944, 'max_score': 2684.642, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g2684642.jpg'}], 'start': 1906.311, 'title': 'Understanding salience and relevance', 'summary': 'Explores framing, relevance realization, and the evolutionary aspects of the sensory motor loop, emphasizing their impact on cognition and wisdom. it discusses the manipulation of salience through attention and its connection to self-deception and truth-seeking behavior.', 'chapters': [{'end': 2063.039, 'start': 1906.311, 'title': 'Understanding framing and relevance realization', 'summary': 'Delves into the concept of framing and relevance realization, emphasizing the primordial nature of salience landscaping in shaping our understanding of the world, which precedes and influences our beliefs and representations.', 'duration': 156.728, 'highlights': ['Framing is described as the process of salience landscaping, determining what is salient and how it constantly shifts in our perception, which is a more primordial process than our beliefs and representations.', 'Relevance realization is emphasized as a foundational process that shapes our interaction with the world, preceding and influencing our beliefs and representations, as they are ultimately dependent on relevance realization.', 'The limitations of representational propositions are highlighted, as they presuppose relevance realization and are ultimately dependent on it, with the example of how an object can have combinatorial properties and be relevant in various ways beyond its representation as a cup.']}, {'end': 2343.64, 'start': 2063.971, 'title': 'Evolution of sensory motor loop', 'summary': 'Discusses the evolution of the sensory motor loop, including how the autonomic nervous system and attention constantly evolve, and how relevance realization provides an optimal grip on the world for achieving goals.', 'duration': 279.669, 'highlights': ['The sensory motor loop constantly evolves through processes that open up variation and put selection on it. The sensory motor loop undergoes processes that open up variation and put selection on it, leading to constant evolution.', 'The autonomic nervous system and attention constantly evolve through opponent processing and natural selection of ideas. The autonomic nervous system and attention evolve through opponent processing and natural selection of ideas, impacting cognitive fittedness and relevance realization.', 'Relevance realization provides an optimal grip on the world, affecting interactions and categorization. Relevance realization offers an optimal grip on the world, influencing interactions and categorization by balancing similarity and difference within categories.']}, {'end': 2876.756, 'start': 2344.521, 'title': 'Salience and relevance in cognition', 'summary': 'Highlights the concepts of salience and relevance in cognition, emphasizing the role of relevance realization in working memory and the recursive nature of wisdom, explaining how salience can be manipulated through attention and its connection to self-deception and truth-seeking behavior.', 'duration': 532.235, 'highlights': ['Relevance realization in working memory is the key to making information salient for direct sensory motor interaction with the world. The process of relevance realization in working memory makes information relevant for direct sensory motor interaction, contributing to the understanding of salience in cognition.', 'Wisdom involves recursive relevance realization, using intelligence and rationality to overcome self-deception and foolishness. Wisdom is described as the recursive use of intelligence and rationality to overcome self-deception and foolishness, providing a deeper understanding of the concept in cognition.', 'Bullshitting oneself involves making things salient to modify behavior, contrasting it with lying and truth-seeking behavior. The concept of bullshitting oneself is explained as making things salient to modify behavior, distinct from lying and truth-seeking behavior in cognitive processes.']}], 'duration': 970.445, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g1906311.jpg', 'highlights': ['Relevance realization shapes our interaction with the world, preceding and influencing beliefs and representations.', 'Framing is the process of salience landscaping, determining what is salient and how it constantly shifts in our perception.', 'The sensory motor loop undergoes processes that open up variation and put selection on it, leading to constant evolution.', 'The autonomic nervous system and attention evolve through opponent processing and natural selection of ideas, impacting cognitive fittedness and relevance realization.', 'Relevance realization offers an optimal grip on the world, influencing interactions and categorization by balancing similarity and difference within categories.', 'Wisdom involves recursive relevance realization, using intelligence and rationality to overcome self-deception and foolishness.', 'Bullshitting oneself involves making things salient to modify behavior, contrasting it with lying and truth-seeking behavior.']}, {'end': 4309.957, 'segs': [{'end': 2962.869, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2876.816, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 2878.818, 'text': 'Twirling, twirling towards freedom.', 'start': 2876.816, 'duration': 2.002}, {'end': 2880.979, 'text': "And people go, and there's a rush.", 'start': 2879.358, 'duration': 1.621}, {'end': 2883.421, 'text': "There's nothing there.", 'start': 2881.86, 'duration': 1.561}, {'end': 2890.086, 'text': "And yet, it's great satire because a lot of political speech is exactly like that.", 'start': 2883.961, 'duration': 6.125}, {'end': 2895.769, 'text': "There's nothing there, right? I'm not saying all political speech.", 'start': 2890.146, 'duration': 5.623}, {'end': 2896.49, 'text': 'I said a lot.', 'start': 2895.809, 'duration': 0.681}, {'end': 2901.229, 'text': "No, but there is a fundamental difference between, and it's so hilarious, I remember that episode.", 'start': 2897.028, 'duration': 4.201}, {'end': 2910.951, 'text': 'There is a fundamental difference between that absurd sort of non-secular speech and political speech, because one of the things is,', 'start': 2902.689, 'duration': 8.262}, {'end': 2914.892, 'text': 'political speech is grounded in some sense of truth.', 'start': 2910.951, 'duration': 3.941}, {'end': 2929.902, 'text': "And so, if that requires you talking about alternative facts and weird, self-destructive oxymoronic phrases, Isn't that approaching pure bullshit??", 'start': 2915.552, 'duration': 14.35}, {'end': 2939.787, 'text': 'No, I think pure bullshit, like the vacuum, is very difficult to get to.', 'start': 2931.642, 'duration': 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3052.918, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3026.661, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 3033.108, 'text': 'I think those moments of transcendence can never get us to an absolute view from nowhere.', 'start': 3026.661, 'duration': 6.447}, {'end': 3038.173, 'text': "And so this is Drew Hyland's notion of finite transcendence.", 'start': 3035.01, 'duration': 3.163}, {'end': 3045.56, 'text': 'We are capable of self-transcendence and therefore we are creatures who can actually raise the question of truth or goodness or beauty,', 'start': 3038.273, 'duration': 7.287}, {'end': 3048.704, 'text': 'because I think they all share this feature.', 'start': 3045.56, 'duration': 3.144}, {'end': 3052.918, 'text': "But that doesn't mean we can transcend to a godhood,", 'start': 3049.875, 'duration': 3.043}], 'summary': 'Humans can achieve self-transcendence, raising questions of truth, goodness, and beauty, but cannot transcend to godhood.', 'duration': 26.257, 'max_score': 3026.661, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g3026661.jpg'}, {'end': 3160.848, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3137.197, 'weight': 11, 'content': [{'end': 3145.381, 'text': 'Then I would respond and say I believe in fact, ultimately, in a conformity theory of knowing,', 'start': 3137.197, 'duration': 8.184}, {'end': 3156.006, 'text': "that the deepest kind of knowing is when there's a contact, a conformity between the mind with the embodied mind and reality.", 'start': 3145.381, 'duration': 10.625}, {'end': 3160.848, 'text': "And here's where I guess I'd push back on Rand.", 'start': 3157.486, 'duration': 3.362}], 'summary': 'Believes in conformity theory of knowing for deepest understanding.', 'duration': 23.651, 'max_score': 3137.197, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g3137197.jpg'}, {'end': 3232.036, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3206.655, 'weight': 12, 'content': [{'end': 3213.341, 'text': "I can know it enough that it will guide me to recognizing it, but that's not the same as having a complete grasp of it,", 'start': 3206.655, 'duration': 6.686}, {'end': 3217.624, 'text': "because I still have to search and find what I don't yet possess in my knowledge.", 'start': 3213.341, 'duration': 4.283}, {'end': 3222.628, 'text': 'So partial knowledge has to be real knowledge.', 'start': 3219.224, 'duration': 3.404}, {'end': 3225.071, 'text': 'Right, partial knowledge is still knowledge.', 'start': 3223.369, 'duration': 1.702}, {'end': 3232.036, 'text': 'Yes, What do you think about somebody like Donald Hoffman who thinks the reality is an illusion?', 'start': 3225.211, 'duration': 6.825}], 'summary': 'Partial knowledge is real knowledge; reality as an illusion.', 'duration': 25.381, 'max_score': 3206.655, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g3206655.jpg'}, {'end': 3420.925, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3392.206, 'weight': 13, 'content': [{'end': 3395.789, 'text': "Here's how you get to transfer information from generation to generation.", 'start': 3392.206, 'duration': 3.583}, {'end': 3396.75, 'text': 'It makes sense.', 'start': 3395.809, 'duration': 0.941}, {'end': 3409.038, 'text': "And then he says that evolution There's no requirement for the cognition to evolve in a way that it would actually perceive and have direct contact with the physical reality.", 'start': 3397.271, 'duration': 11.767}, {'end': 3414.241, 'text': 'Except that cognition evolved in such a way that it could perceive the truth of evolution.', 'start': 3409.679, 'duration': 4.562}, {'end': 3417.263, 'text': "And you can't treat evolution like an isolated thing.", 'start': 3414.381, 'duration': 2.882}, {'end': 3420.925, 'text': 'Evolution depends on Darwinian theory, genetics.', 'start': 3417.783, 'duration': 3.142}], 'summary': 'Cognition evolved to perceive truth of evolution, relying on darwinian 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difference to me.", 'start': 3621.923, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 3631.007, 'text': 'Oh man, that is such a deeply philosophical argument.', 'start': 3627.645, 'duration': 3.362}, {'end': 3633.608, 'text': 'No, no, no, no, no, no, no.', 'start': 3631.307, 'duration': 2.301}, {'end': 3637.049, 'text': "Nobody's saying science doesn't work.", 'start': 3634.588, 'duration': 2.461}, {'end': 3644.399, 'text': "It's an interesting question, just like before humans were able to fly, they would ask a question.", 'start': 3638.294, 'duration': 6.105}], 'summary': 'Using science to discern truth, with no existential impact', 'duration': 31.899, 'max_score': 3612.5, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g3612500.jpg'}, {'end': 4021.344, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3996.401, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 4003.684, 'text': "It sounds like a question, but it's actually not really a question, because it has a presupposition in it that I think is fundamentally flawed.", 'start': 3996.401, 'duration': 7.283}, {'end': 4007.573, 'text': 'if I understand what people mean by it.', 'start': 4005.791, 'duration': 1.782}, {'end': 4009.914, 'text': "And it's actually often not that clear.", 'start': 4007.613, 'duration': 2.301}, {'end': 4012.777, 'text': 'But when they talk about the meaning of life they are talking about,', 'start': 4010.155, 'duration': 2.622}, {'end': 4021.344, 'text': 'there are some feature of the universe in and of itself that I have to discover and enter into a relationship with.', 'start': 4012.777, 'duration': 8.567}], 'summary': 'Challenging the flawed presupposition about the meaning of life.', 'duration': 24.943, 'max_score': 3996.401, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g3996401.jpg'}, {'end': 4063.206, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4038.223, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 4045.285, 'text': 'There were times when people thought they had a worldview that legitimated it, like God is running the universe and therefore,', 'start': 4038.223, 'duration': 7.062}, {'end': 4047.586, 'text': "and God cares about you and there's a plan, et cetera.", 'start': 4045.285, 'duration': 2.301}, {'end': 4057.365, 'text': 'But I think a better way of understanding meaning is not, right? Meaning is like the graspability.', 'start': 4048.507, 'duration': 8.858}, {'end': 4060.546, 'text': "Remember I talked about optimal grip? It's like the graspability of that cup.", 'start': 4057.385, 'duration': 3.161}, {'end': 4063.206, 'text': 'Is that in me? No.', 'start': 4061.146, 'duration': 2.06}], 'summary': 'People once found meaning in religious worldviews, but a new understanding of meaning lies in graspability.', 'duration': 24.983, 'max_score': 4038.223, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4038223.jpg'}, {'end': 4180.509, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4141.482, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 4159.733, 'text': 'between whatever the forces of the universe that created the planets, the proteins, the multi-cell organisms, the intelligent early humans,', 'start': 4141.482, 'duration': 18.251}, {'end': 4163.955, 'text': 'the beautiful human civilizations and the technologies that will overtake them.', 'start': 4159.733, 'duration': 4.222}, {'end': 4180.509, 'text': "It's trying to understand the relevance realization of the Big Bang to the feeling of love you have for another human being.", 'start': 4166.238, 'duration': 14.271}], 'summary': 'Exploring the connection between the big bang and human emotions.', 'duration': 39.027, 'max_score': 4141.482, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4141482.jpg'}], 'start': 2876.816, 'title': 'Truth, reality, and meaning', 'summary': 'Delves into the grounding of political speech in truth, explores the concept of truth and reality, examines the illusion of reality and its impact on cognition and science, and questions the meaning of life, providing insights from various philosophical perspectives.', 'chapters': [{'end': 2929.902, 'start': 2876.816, 'title': 'Political speech: truth vs absurdity', 'summary': 'Discusses the fundamental difference between absurd non-secular speech and political speech, highlighting the grounding of political speech in truth and the use of alternative facts and oxymoronic phrases, bordering on pure bullshit.', 'duration': 53.086, 'highlights': ['The fundamental difference between absurd non-secular speech and political speech lies in the grounding of political speech in truth.', 'The use of alternative facts and oxymoronic phrases in political speech borders on pure bullshit.', 'The chapter highlights the absurdity of political speech by comparing it to twirling towards freedom with nothing there, drawing parallels to the emptiness of some political rhetoric.']}, {'end': 3437.795, 'start': 2931.642, 'title': 'The nature of truth and reality', 'summary': "Explores the concept of truth and reality, discussing the limitations of human perception and cognition in understanding objective truth, and examining contrasting theories such as spinoza's, plato's, ayn rand's objectivism, and donald hoffman's views on reality as an illusion.", 'duration': 506.153, 'highlights': ["Spinoza's and Plato's influence on the concept of truth and self-transcendence The discussion delves into the influence of Spinoza and Plato on the perspective of truth and self-transcendence, highlighting the retrospective nature of truth and the process of moving to a more encompassing frame for understanding limitations and distortions.", 'Limitations of human transcendence in achieving an absolute view of truth The chapter explores the idea that moments of self-transcendence cannot lead to an absolute view from nowhere, emphasizing the notion of finite transcendence and the inability to attain a comprehensive understanding of truth.', "Comparison between Ayn Rand's objectivism and conformity theory of knowing The conversation contrasts Ayn Rand's objectivism with the conformity theory of knowing, discussing the concept of partial knowledge as real knowledge and the significance of acknowledging parcel knowledge.", "Critique of Donald Hoffman's perspective on reality as an illusion The transcript critiques Donald Hoffman's view of reality as an illusion, addressing the comparative nature of real and illusory experiences and questioning the privilege of certain aspects of existence in Hoffman's argument.", 'Evaluation of cognition, evolution, and their connection to physical reality The discussion evaluates the relationship between cognition, evolution, and their connection to physical reality, highlighting the argument that cognition evolved to perceive the truth of evolution and questioning the basis for privileging certain aspects of existence.']}, {'end': 3969.054, 'start': 3440.156, 'title': 'The illusion of reality and cognition', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of reality as an illusion and the implications for cognition and science, exploring the possibility of living in a virtual world and the role of self-correcting processes in understanding truth within the illusion.', 'duration': 528.898, 'highlights': ['The concept of living in a virtual world and the role of self-correcting processes in understanding truth within the illusion The chapter delves into the possibility of living in a virtual world constructed by the mind and the role of self-correcting processes in understanding truth within this illusion.', 'The implications for cognition and science of living in a virtual world The discussion explores the implications for cognition and science if living in a virtual world constructed by the mind is considered as a possibility.', "The role of science in discovering truth within the illusion The argument is made that science is the best bet for discovering what's true and what's an illusion within the context of living in a virtual world."]}, {'end': 4309.957, 'start': 3969.655, 'title': 'Questioning the meaning of life', 'summary': 'Delves into the flawed nature of the question about the meaning of life, emphasizing the relationship between subjective and objective elements in defining meaning.', 'duration': 340.302, 'highlights': ['The flawed nature of the question about the meaning of life is emphasized, highlighting the relationship between subjective and objective elements in defining meaning. The chapter discusses the flawed nature of the question about the meaning of life, emphasizing the relationship between subjective and objective elements in defining meaning.', 'The concept of meaning is likened to the graspability of an object, emphasizing the relational nature of meaning. The concept of meaning is compared to the graspability of an object, highlighting the relational nature of meaning.', 'The discussion explores the idea of relevance realization in relation to the forces of the universe and the feeling of love, highlighting the existential aspect of questioning the meaning of life. The chapter explores the idea of relevance realization in relation to the forces of the universe and the feeling of love, highlighting the existential aspect of questioning the meaning of life.']}], 'duration': 1433.141, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g2876816.jpg', 'highlights': ['The fundamental difference between absurd non-secular speech and political speech lies in the grounding of political speech in truth.', 'The use of alternative facts and oxymoronic phrases in political speech borders on pure bullshit.', 'The chapter highlights the absurdity of political speech by comparing it to twirling towards freedom with nothing there, drawing parallels to the emptiness of some political rhetoric.', 'The concept of living in a virtual world and the role of self-correcting processes in understanding truth within the illusion.', 'The implications for cognition and science of living in a virtual world constructed by the mind.', 'The role of science in discovering truth within the illusion.', 'The flawed nature of the question about the meaning of life is emphasized, highlighting the relationship between subjective and objective elements in defining meaning.', 'The concept of meaning is likened to the graspability of an object, emphasizing the relational nature of meaning.', 'The discussion explores the idea of relevance realization in relation to the forces of the universe and the feeling of love, highlighting the existential aspect of questioning the meaning of life.', "Spinoza's and Plato's influence on the concept of truth and self-transcendence.", 'Limitations of human transcendence in achieving an absolute view of truth.', "Comparison between Ayn Rand's objectivism and conformity theory of knowing.", "Critique of Donald Hoffman's perspective on reality as an illusion.", 'Evaluation of cognition, evolution, and their connection to physical reality.']}, {'end': 4918.294, 'segs': [{'end': 4378.025, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4352.497, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 4357.678, 'text': "Your relevance realization isn't just representing properties of the world, it's instantiating it.", 'start': 4352.497, 'duration': 5.181}, {'end': 4364.66, 'text': "There's something very similar to biological evolution, which is that the guts of life, if I'm right, running your cognition.", 'start': 4357.998, 'duration': 6.662}, {'end': 4367.661, 'text': "It's not just that you have ideas.", 'start': 4364.72, 'duration': 2.941}, {'end': 4372.323, 'text': "You actually instantiate, that's what I mean by conformity, the same principles.", 'start': 4367.942, 'duration': 4.381}, {'end': 4373.804, 'text': "They're within and without.", 'start': 4372.603, 'duration': 1.201}, {'end': 4375.264, 'text': "They don't belong to you subjectively.", 'start': 4373.824, 'duration': 1.44}, {'end': 4376.345, 'text': "They're not just out there.", 'start': 4375.504, 'duration': 0.841}, {'end': 4378.025, 'text': "They're in both at the same time.", 'start': 4376.545, 'duration': 1.48}], 'summary': 'Cognition instantiates principles within and without, akin to biological evolution.', 'duration': 25.528, 'max_score': 4352.497, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4352497.jpg'}, {'end': 4452.24, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4419.025, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 4432.077, 'text': 'meaning. asking about the meaning of life is so full of romantic bullshit that if you take it, if you just allow yourself to take it seriously for a second,', 'start': 4419.025, 'duration': 13.052}, {'end': 4435.901, 'text': 'it forces you to pause and think like what?', 'start': 4432.077, 'duration': 3.824}, {'end': 4437.733, 'text': "What's going on here?", 'start': 4436.852, 'duration': 0.881}, {'end': 4444.642, 'text': 'And then it ultimately, I think, does return to the question of meaning in those mundane things.', 'start': 4438.394, 'duration': 6.248}, {'end': 4452.24, 'text': 'What gives my life joy? What gives it lasting Deliciousness.', 'start': 4445.322, 'duration': 6.918}], 'summary': 'Questioning the meaning of life leads to reflection on mundane joys and lasting happiness.', 'duration': 33.215, 'max_score': 4419.025, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4419025.jpg'}, {'end': 4606.143, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4581.587, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 4589.912, 'text': 'what I argued that the very processes that make us adaptively intelligent subject us to perennial problems of self-deception, self-destruction,', 'start': 4581.587, 'duration': 8.325}, {'end': 4592.574, 'text': 'creating bullshit for ourselves, for other people.', 'start': 4589.912, 'duration': 2.662}, {'end': 4592.994, 'text': 'all of that.', 'start': 4592.574, 'duration': 0.42}, {'end': 4598.157, 'text': 'And that can cause anxiety, existential anxiety.', 'start': 4593.134, 'duration': 5.023}, {'end': 4599.237, 'text': 'It can cause despair.', 'start': 4598.177, 'duration': 1.06}, {'end': 4601.859, 'text': 'It can cause depression.', 'start': 4600.018, 'duration': 1.841}, {'end': 4603.342, 'text': 'a sense of absurdity.', 'start': 4602.361, 'duration': 0.981}, {'end': 4606.143, 'text': 'These are perennial problems.', 'start': 4605.063, 'duration': 1.08}], 'summary': 'Adaptive intelligence leads to perennial problems like self-deception, self-destruction, and existential anxiety.', 'duration': 24.556, 'max_score': 4581.587, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4581587.jpg'}, {'end': 4714.373, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4686.85, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 4691.015, 'text': 'They have no religious allegiance, but they are not primarily atheistic.', 'start': 4686.85, 'duration': 4.165}, {'end': 4696.28, 'text': 'They most frequently describe themselves with this very.', 'start': 4691.736, 'duration': 4.544}, {'end': 4696.92, 'text': 'this has become.', 'start': 4696.28, 'duration': 0.64}, {'end': 4701.423, 'text': "almost everybody now describes I'm spiritual but not religious,", 'start': 4696.92, 'duration': 4.503}, {'end': 4708.949, 'text': 'which means they are trying to find a way of reducing the bullshit and enhancing the connectedness,', 'start': 4701.423, 'duration': 7.526}, {'end': 4714.373, 'text': "but they don't want to turn to any of the legacy established religions, by and large.", 'start': 4708.949, 'duration': 5.424}], 'summary': "Most people now describe themselves as spiritual but not religious, seeking to reduce the 'bullshit' and enhance connectedness.", 'duration': 27.523, 'max_score': 4686.85, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4686850.jpg'}], 'start': 4309.977, 'title': 'Relevance realization, evolutionary connection, and meaning crisis', 'summary': "Discusses relevance realization's duality within and outside individuals, its potential to shake individuals out of mundane life, explores the meaning crisis, and its connection to joy and magic, prompting reflection on the big picture and its impact on day-to-day life, highlighting the contemporary meaning crisis and the search for wisdom in the absence of religious affiliation.", 'chapters': [{'end': 4416.569, 'start': 4309.977, 'title': 'Relevance realization and evolutionary connection', 'summary': 'Discusses relevance realization and its connection to the evolutionary process, emphasizing the duality of its presence both within and outside an individual, and its potential to shake individuals out of mundane daily life.', 'duration': 106.592, 'highlights': ['The concept of relevance realization emphasizes the duality of its presence within and outside an individual, impacting their connection to the evolutionary world.', 'The realization of relevance goes beyond subjective or objective perspectives, and involves representing and instantiating properties of the world.', 'The discussion on the meaning of life serves as a beneficial shake-up from the repetitive cycle of daily life, prompting individuals to contemplate beyond the mundane routines.']}, {'end': 4918.294, 'start': 4419.025, 'title': 'Exploring the meaning crisis', 'summary': 'Delves into the meaning of life, discussing its connection to joy and magic, prompting reflection on the big picture and its impact on day-to-day life, while highlighting the contemporary meaning crisis and the search for wisdom in the absence of religious affiliation.', 'duration': 499.269, 'highlights': ['The chapter discusses the connection between the meaning of life and joy, emphasizing the importance of identifying sources of lasting joy and magic in everyday experiences. The speaker explores the significance of finding joy and magic in mundane experiences, emphasizing their contribution to the overall meaning of life.', 'The transcript highlights the contemporary meaning crisis, attributing it to perennial problems of self-deception and the absence of ecologies of practices for ameliorating self-deception and enhancing connectedness. The chapter explores the contemporary meaning crisis, linking it to perennial problems of self-deception and the lack of established practices to counter it, leading to a wisdom famine.', 'The discussion emphasizes the search for wisdom in the absence of religious affiliation, showcasing the increasing trend of spiritual but not religious individuals seeking ways to reduce self-deception and enhance connectedness. The transcript highlights the trend of spiritual but not religious individuals seeking wisdom outside traditional religious affiliations, illustrating the ongoing search for connectedness and reduction of self-deception.']}], 'duration': 608.317, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4309977.jpg', 'highlights': ['The realization of relevance goes beyond subjective or objective perspectives, and involves representing and instantiating properties of the world.', 'The discussion on the meaning of life serves as a beneficial shake-up from the repetitive cycle of daily life, prompting individuals to contemplate beyond the mundane routines.', 'The chapter discusses the connection between the meaning of life and joy, emphasizing the importance of identifying sources of lasting joy and magic in everyday experiences.', 'The transcript highlights the contemporary meaning crisis, attributing it to perennial problems of self-deception and the absence of ecologies of practices for ameliorating self-deception and enhancing connectedness.', 'The discussion emphasizes the search for wisdom in the absence of religious affiliation, showcasing the increasing trend of spiritual but not religious individuals seeking ways to reduce self-deception and enhance connectedness.', 'The concept of relevance realization emphasizes the duality of its presence within and outside an individual, impacting their connection to the evolutionary world.']}, {'end': 5611.994, 'segs': [{'end': 5008.637, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4918.934, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 4921.055, 'text': "I don't think it's complete, but I think it's important.", 'start': 4918.934, 'duration': 2.121}, {'end': 4930.356, 'text': 'And this is to step before the Cartesian revolution and think about many different kinds of knowing.', 'start': 4922.035, 'duration': 8.321}, {'end': 4937.199, 'text': "And this is now something that is prominent within what's called 4E cognitive science, the kind of cognitive science I practice.", 'start': 4930.516, 'duration': 6.683}, {'end': 4941.742, 'text': "And there's a lot of converging evidence for, okay, these different ways of knowing.", 'start': 4937.219, 'duration': 4.523}, {'end': 4943.243, 'text': "There's propositional knowing.", 'start': 4942.042, 'duration': 1.201}, {'end': 4944.823, 'text': 'This is what we are most familiar with.', 'start': 4943.423, 'duration': 1.4}, {'end': 4948.946, 'text': 'In fact, it almost has a tyrannical status, right?', 'start': 4945.084, 'duration': 3.862}, {'end': 4955.352, 'text': "So this is knowing that something is the case Like that cats are mammals and it's stored in semantic memory,", 'start': 4949.166, 'duration': 6.186}, {'end': 4959.238, 'text': 'and we have tests of coherence and correspondence and conviction, right?', 'start': 4955.352, 'duration': 3.886}, {'end': 4961.461, 'text': "There's procedural, knowing.", 'start': 4960.38, 'duration': 1.081}, {'end': 4963.504, 'text': 'This is knowing how to do something.', 'start': 4961.481, 'duration': 2.023}, {'end': 4964.806, 'text': 'This is..', 'start': 4964.586, 'duration': 0.22}, {'end': 4967.649, 'text': 'Skills are not theories.', 'start': 4965.808, 'duration': 1.841}, {'end': 4968.409, 'text': "They're not beliefs.", 'start': 4967.749, 'duration': 0.66}, {'end': 4969.49, 'text': "They're not true or false.", 'start': 4968.429, 'duration': 1.061}, {'end': 4972.472, 'text': "They engage the world, or they don't.", 'start': 4969.67, 'duration': 2.802}, {'end': 4976.694, 'text': 'And they are stored in a different kind of memory, procedural memory.', 'start': 4973.032, 'duration': 3.662}, {'end': 4981.656, 'text': 'Semantic memory can be damaged without any damage to procedural memory.', 'start': 4978.154, 'duration': 3.502}, {'end': 4987.739, 'text': "That's why you have the prototypical story of somebody suffering Alzheimer's, and they're losing all kinds of 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'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4918934.jpg'}, {'end': 5093.688, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5067.67, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 5072.414, 'text': 'So the adjectival qualia are like the greenness of green and the blueness of blue.', 'start': 5067.67, 'duration': 4.744}, {'end': 5080.241, 'text': 'The adverbial qualia are the here-ness, the now-ness, the togetherness.', 'start': 5072.814, 'duration': 7.427}, {'end': 5084.705, 'text': 'And I think the perspectival knowing has a lot to do with the adverbial qualia.', 'start': 5081.462, 'duration': 3.243}, {'end': 5088.343, 'text': 'adjectival qualia, and adverbial qualia.', 'start': 5085.481, 'duration': 2.862}, {'end': 5090.065, 'text': "I'm learning so many new things today.", 'start': 5088.383, 'duration': 1.682}, {'end': 5093.688, 'text': "Okay, so that's another way of knowing.", 'start': 5090.525, 'duration': 3.163}], 'summary': 'Discusses adjectival and adverbial 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Do you mean like consciousness? 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Emphasizes the prominence and evidence supporting different ways of knowing in 4E cognitive science.", 'Propositional knowing has a tyrannical status and is stored in semantic memory, with tests of coherence and correspondence. Describes the dominant nature of propositional knowing and its storage, along with the criteria for evaluating it.', "Procedural knowing involves skills and is stored in procedural memory, which can remain intact even when semantic memory is damaged. Explains the nature of procedural knowing and its independence from semantic memory, illustrated with an example of Alzheimer's patients.", 'Perspectival knowing relates to the experience of being in a specific situation and is associated with episodic memory and a different criterion of realness. Details the nature of perspectival knowing and its connection to episodic memory, providing examples of scientific and virtual reality contexts.']}, {'end': 5611.994, 'start': 5049.277, 'title': 'Qualia, participatory knowing, and the sense of self', 'summary': "Discusses the distinction between adjectival and adverbial qualia, the concept of participatory knowing and its relation to the sense of belonging, and the functionality of religion in transforming people through non-propositional processes, while also considering the possibility of a religion that's not a religion.", 'duration': 562.717, 'highlights': ['The distinctions between adjectival and adverbial qualia and their relation to perspectival knowing are discussed, with a focus on the adverbial qualia and its connection to perspectival knowing. Distinction between adjectival and adverbial qualia.', 'The concept of participatory knowing is explained as the idea that individuals and the world co-participate in shaping each other, leading to a sense of belonging at every level, with examples of affordances shaped by gravity, biology, and culture. Explanation of participatory knowing and examples of shaped affordances.', 'The discussion delves into the concept of the sense of self as an agent-arena relationship, distinct from consciousness, and the idea of multiple hemispheric selves, raising important questions in cognitive science. Explanation of the agent-arena relationship and the concept of multiple selves.', 'The functionality of religion in transforming people through non-propositional processes such as procedural, perspectival, and participatory levels is explored, emphasizing its deep connection to meaning-making and relevance realization. Exploration of the functionality of religion in transforming people.', "The possibility of a 'religion that's not a religion' is proposed, suggesting the integration of cognitive science and philosophical traditions to fulfill the functionality of religion without adhering to specific propositional sets. Proposal of a 'religion that's not a religion' and the integration of cognitive science and philosophical traditions."]}], 'duration': 693.06, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g4918934.jpg', 'highlights': ['Emphasizes the prominence and evidence supporting different ways of knowing in 4E cognitive science.', 'Describes the dominant nature of propositional knowing and its storage, along with the criteria for evaluating it.', "Explains the nature of procedural knowing and its independence from semantic memory, illustrated with an example of Alzheimer's patients.", 'Details the nature of perspectival knowing and its connection to episodic memory, providing examples of scientific and virtual reality contexts.', 'Distinction between adjectival and adverbial qualia.', 'Explanation of participatory knowing and examples of shaped affordances.', 'Explanation of the agent-arena relationship and the concept of multiple selves.', 'Exploration of the functionality of religion in transforming people.', "Proposal of a 'religion that's not a religion' and the integration of cognitive science and philosophical traditions."]}, {'end': 6286.871, 'segs': [{'end': 5639.927, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5612.314, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 5617.336, 'text': "That's why you get all these mother religions emerging, right? Universal mother religions like ISIS, et cetera.", 'start': 5612.314, 'duration': 5.022}, {'end': 5620.657, 'text': "So there is what's called domicile.", 'start': 5618.036, 'duration': 2.621}, {'end': 5622.198, 'text': "There's the killing of home.", 'start': 5620.677, 'duration': 1.521}, {'end': 5629.021, 'text': "There's a loss of a sense of home and belonging and fittedness during the Hellenistic period and stoicism.", 'start': 5622.218, 'duration': 6.803}, {'end': 5632.243, 'text': 'arose specifically to address that.', 'start': 5629.821, 'duration': 2.422}, {'end': 5639.927, 'text': 'And because it was designed to address a meaning crisis, it is no coincidence that it is coming back into prominence right now.', 'start': 5632.603, 'duration': 7.324}], 'summary': 'Stoicism emerged to address a meaning crisis during the hellenistic period and is now resurging.', 'duration': 27.613, 'max_score': 5612.314, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g5612314.jpg'}, {'end': 5713.502, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5654.597, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 5667.115, 'text': 'But I would venture to say that if we just leave things be, the meaning crisis dissipates, because we long to create institutions,', 'start': 5654.597, 'duration': 12.518}, {'end': 5672.8, 'text': 'to create collective ideas, so this distributed cognition process that give us meaning.', 'start': 5667.115, 'duration': 5.685}, {'end': 5679.846, 'text': "So if religion loses power, we'll find other institutions that are sources of meaning.", 'start': 5673.82, 'duration': 6.026}, {'end': 5686.773, 'text': 'Is that your intuition as well? I think we are already doing that.', 'start': 5680.746, 'duration': 6.027}, {'end': 5700.997, 'text': 'I am involved with and do participant observation of many of these emerging communities that are creating ecologies of practice that are specifically about trying to address the meaning crisis.', 'start': 5687.193, 'duration': 13.804}, {'end': 5710.3, 'text': "I just in late July I went to Washington State and did Rafe Kelly's Evolve Move Play, Return to the Source and, wow,", 'start': 5701.337, 'duration': 8.963}, {'end': 5711.801, 'text': "one of the most challenging things I've ever done.", 'start': 5710.3, 'duration': 1.501}, {'end': 5713.502, 'text': 'That guy is awesome, by the way.', 'start': 5712.461, 'duration': 1.041}], 'summary': 'Emerging communities are addressing the meaning crisis through new institutions and ecologies of practice.', 'duration': 58.905, 'max_score': 5654.597, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g5654597.jpg'}, {'end': 5918.062, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5888.39, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 5893.452, 'text': "Yeah, and what's the difference in non-theism, agnosticism and atheism?", 'start': 5888.39, 'duration': 5.062}, {'end': 5901.578, 'text': 'So non-theists think that the theist and the atheist share a bunch of presuppositions.', 'start': 5893.956, 'duration': 7.622}, {'end': 5913.321, 'text': "For example, it's that sacredness is to be understood in terms of a personal being that is, in some sense, the supreme being,", 'start': 5901.678, 'duration': 11.643}, {'end': 5918.062, 'text': 'and that the right relationship to that being is to have a correct set of beliefs.', 'start': 5913.321, 'duration': 4.741}], 'summary': 'Non-theists question presuppositions of sacredness and correct beliefs shared by theists and atheists.', 'duration': 29.672, 'max_score': 5888.39, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g5888390.jpg'}, {'end': 6154.489, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6121.608, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 6133.207, 'text': 'but So in that case, if meaning is sacred in your non-theist view, is meaning created or is it discovered??', 'start': 6121.608, 'duration': 11.599}, {'end': 6137.809, 'text': "There's a Latin word that doesn't separate them, called inventio.", 'start': 6134.127, 'duration': 3.682}, {'end': 6145.293, 'text': 'And I would say that, and before you say, oh, well, give me a chance, because you participate in it.', 'start': 6139.23, 'duration': 6.063}, {'end': 6154.489, 'text': "You've experienced an insight, yes? Did you make it happen? The insight.", 'start': 6147.254, 'duration': 7.235}], 'summary': 'In a non-theist view, meaning is debated: created or discovered?', 'duration': 32.881, 'max_score': 6121.608, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g6121608.jpg'}], 'start': 5612.314, 'title': 'The meaning crisis and stoicism', 'summary': 'Discusses the resurgence of stoicism to address the current meaning crisis and explores non-theistic perspectives on sacredness and meaning, emphasizing participation and discovery.', 'chapters': [{'end': 5686.773, 'start': 5612.314, 'title': 'The meaning crisis and the rise of stoicism', 'summary': 'Discusses the emergence of stoicism during the hellenistic period to address the loss of a sense of home and belonging, and its resurgence in addressing the current meaning crisis, suggesting that if religion loses power, other institutions will provide meaning.', 'duration': 74.459, 'highlights': ['Stoicism emerged during the Hellenistic period to address the loss of a sense of home and belonging, and is now coming back into prominence to address the current meaning crisis.', 'The meaning crisis dissipates as we long to create institutions and collective ideas that provide us with meaning, implying that if religion loses power, other institutions will fulfill this role.', 'The discussion highlights the emergence of universal mother religions like ISIS as a response to the loss of a sense of domicile and belonging during the Hellenistic period.']}, {'end': 6286.871, 'start': 5687.193, 'title': 'Meaningful movement and non-theistic perspectives', 'summary': "Explores the emergence of communities addressing the meaning crisis through movement and play, exemplified by rafe kelly's evolve move play, and discusses the non-theistic perspective on sacredness and meaning, emphasizing the participation in and discovery of meaning.", 'duration': 599.678, 'highlights': ["Rafe Kelly's Evolve Move Play exemplifies addressing the meaning crisis through movement and play, integrating parkour in nature, martial arts, and mindfulness practices to enhance relevance realization and connectedness to oneself, others, and the world. Rafe Kelly's Evolve Move Play integrates movement and play to address the meaning crisis, enhancing relevance realization, and connectedness.", 'Non-theistic perspective emphasizes the rejection of shared presuppositions between theists and atheists, such as the understanding of sacredness in terms of a personal supreme being and the right relationship based on correct beliefs, advocating for a deeper understanding of sacredness and meaning beyond beliefs and propositions. Non-theistic perspective rejects shared presuppositions between theists and atheists, advocating for a deeper understanding of sacredness and meaning beyond beliefs and propositions.', 'Meaning is both discovered and created, as individuals participate in the process of meaning-making, emphasizing the active engagement and involvement in discovering and creating meaning in everyday experiences. The process of meaning-making involves both discovering and creating meaning, emphasizing active engagement and involvement.']}], 'duration': 674.557, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g5612314.jpg', 'highlights': ['Stoicism emerged to address the loss of a sense of home and belonging, now resurging to tackle the current meaning crisis.', 'The meaning crisis dissipates as we long to create institutions and collective ideas that provide us with meaning.', "Rafe Kelly's Evolve Move Play integrates movement and play to address the meaning crisis, enhancing relevance realization, and connectedness.", 'Non-theistic perspective rejects shared presuppositions between theists and atheists, advocating for a deeper understanding of sacredness and meaning beyond beliefs and propositions.', 'Meaning is both discovered and created, as individuals participate in the process of meaning-making, emphasizing the active engagement and involvement.']}, {'end': 7329.591, 'segs': [{'end': 6314.52, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6287.852, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 6295.955, 'text': "Actually, I do want to say, because the interesting difference that you've drawn between non-theism, theism and atheism,", 'start': 6287.852, 'duration': 8.103}, {'end': 6301.756, 'text': "Where's the agreement or disagreement between you and Jordan Peterson on this?", 'start': 6297.075, 'duration': 4.681}, {'end': 6303.217, 'text': 'I just talked to Jordan about this.', 'start': 6301.816, 'duration': 1.401}, {'end': 6306.098, 'text': "Because you're very clear.", 'start': 6304.797, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 6310.339, 'text': "It's kind of beautiful in the clarity in which you lay this out.", 'start': 6306.118, 'duration': 4.221}, {'end': 6314.52, 'text': 'I wonder if Jordan has arrived at a similar kind of clarity.', 'start': 6311.559, 'duration': 2.961}], 'summary': 'Discussion about clarity on non-theism, theism, and atheism with jordan peterson.', 'duration': 26.668, 'max_score': 6287.852, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g6287852.jpg'}, {'end': 6844.169, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6816.372, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6820.375, 'text': 'it replicates and replicates and only 10% of the people get it right.', 'start': 6816.372, 'duration': 4.003}, {'end': 6830.902, 'text': 'You put them in a group of four, and you allow them to talk to each other, the success rate goes to 80%.', 'start': 6823.437, 'duration': 7.465}, {'end': 6834.904, 'text': "That's just one example of a phenomenon that's coming to the fore.", 'start': 6830.902, 'duration': 4.002}, {'end': 6840.747, 'text': 'By the way, do you know if a similar experiment has been done on a group of engineering students for psychology students??', 'start': 6835.925, 'duration': 4.822}, {'end': 6844.169, 'text': 'Is there a major group difference in IQ between those two?', 'start': 6841.167, 'duration': 3.002}], 'summary': 'Only 10% success rate improves to 80% when people collaborate in groups of four.', 'duration': 27.797, 'max_score': 6816.372, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g6816372.jpg'}, {'end': 6888.701, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6865.101, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 6871.923, 'text': 'And this is deeply inspired by Socrates and Plato, especially the Platonic dialogues.', 'start': 6865.101, 'duration': 6.822}, {'end': 6874.584, 'text': "And I'm sure we've all had this.", 'start': 6873.544, 'duration': 1.04}, {'end': 6877.105, 'text': 'And so give me a moment because I want to build onto something here.', 'start': 6875.044, 'duration': 2.061}, {'end': 6885.367, 'text': "We've participated in conversations that took on a life of their own and took us both in directions we did not anticipate.", 'start': 6877.805, 'duration': 7.562}, {'end': 6888.701, 'text': 'afforded us insights 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unexpected insights and a deeper relationship with oneself, others, and the world.']}, {'end': 7329.591, 'start': 6917.005, 'title': 'Importance of dialogos in mythos and collective intelligence', 'summary': 'Explores the significance of dialogos in cultivating a shared flow state within collective intelligence, leading towards collective wisdom, and its role in myth building and distributed cognition, emphasizing the impact of podcasts and youtube on breaking old boundaries and creating a medium for distributed cognition.', 'duration': 412.586, 'highlights': ['The significance of dialogos in cultivating a shared flow state within collective intelligence, leading towards collective wisdom. The ability to connect together in distributed cognition, collective intelligence, and cultivate a shared flow state within that collective intelligence, ramping up towards collective wisdom is emphasized.', 'The impact of podcasts and YouTube on breaking old boundaries and creating a medium for distributed cognition. Podcasts and YouTube have the potential to break down old boundaries between the private and the public, between writing and oral speech, creating a vehicle and medium for distributed cognition that breaks down traditional cognitive categories.', 'The role of dialogues and meta-dialogue in podcasts, leading to a dynamic oral speech with the permanency of writing. Podcasts and YouTube facilitate dialogues, meta-dialogues, and dynamic oral speech with the permanency of writing, creating a vehicle and medium for distributed cognition that breaks down traditional cognitive categories.', 'The exploration of mindfulness and its connection to mental framing and meditation. The discussion delves into mindfulness, mental framing, and the practice of meditation, emphasizing the need for an ecology of mindfulness practices and the process of stepping back from mental framing in meditation.']}], 'duration': 1041.739, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g6287852.jpg', 'highlights': ['The power of distributed cognition is demonstrated through a reasoning task, where only 10% of individuals can solve it, but in a group of four, the success rate increases to 80%.', 'The significance of dialogos in cultivating a shared flow state within collective intelligence, leading towards collective wisdom. The ability to connect together in distributed cognition, collective intelligence, and cultivate a shared flow state within that collective intelligence, ramping up towards collective wisdom is emphasized.', 'The impact of podcasts and YouTube on breaking old boundaries and creating a medium for distributed cognition. Podcasts and YouTube have the potential to break down old boundaries between the private and the public, between writing and oral speech, creating a vehicle and medium for distributed cognition that breaks down traditional cognitive categories.', 'The dialogue or discourse, inspired by Socrates and Plato, is highlighted as a mechanism that can lead to unexpected insights and a deeper relationship with oneself, others, and the world.', 'The speaker and Jordan Peterson hold different views on theistic propositions, with the speaker challenging the attempt to build a theistic model from a non-theistic perspective.']}, {'end': 7903.557, 'segs': [{'end': 7499.635, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7431.54, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 7439.569, 'text': "yeah, so if you, it's not just the actual things you see on psychedelics or the actual journey of where your mind goes on psychedelics,", 'start': 7431.54, 'duration': 8.029}, {'end': 7446.426, 'text': "it's also the integrating that into the new perspective that you take on life, right?", 'start': 7439.569, 'duration': 6.857}, {'end': 7448.227, 'text': 'You really nicely described.', 'start': 7446.606, 'duration': 1.621}, {'end': 7454.07, 'text': 'so meditation is the, in that metaphor, is the psychedelic journey to a different mind state.', 'start': 7448.227, 'duration': 5.843}, {'end': 7457.571, 'text': 'and then contemplation is the return back to reality.', 'start': 7454.07, 'duration': 3.501}, {'end': 7463.474, 'text': 'how you integrate that into a new world view and mindfulness is the whole process, Right.', 'start': 7457.571, 'duration': 5.903}, {'end': 7470.262, 'text': 'so if you just did contemplation, you could suffer from inflation and projective fantasy.', 'start': 7463.474, 'duration': 6.788}, {'end': 7476.429, 'text': 'If you just do meditation, you can suffer from withdrawal, spiritual bypassing, avoiding reality.', 'start': 7470.843, 'duration': 5.586}, {'end': 7479.012, 'text': 'They act, they need each other.', 'start': 7476.85, 'duration': 2.162}, {'end': 7480.213, 'text': 'You have to cycle between them.', 'start': 7479.192, 'duration': 1.021}, {'end': 7482.456, 'text': "It's like what I talked about earlier,", 'start': 7480.754, 'duration': 1.702}, {'end': 7489.023, 'text': 'when I talked about the opponent processing within the autonomic nervous system or the opponent processing at work and attention.', 'start': 7482.456, 'duration': 6.567}, {'end': 7492.287, 'text': "And that's what I mean by an ecology of practices.", 'start': 7489.364, 'duration': 2.923}, {'end': 7493.248, 'text': 'You need both.', 'start': 7492.627, 'duration': 0.621}, {'end': 7495.351, 'text': 'Neither one is a panacea.', 'start': 7494.009, 'duration': 1.342}, {'end': 7499.635, 'text': 'You need them in this opponent processing, acting as checks and balance on each other.', 'start': 7495.431, 'duration': 4.204}], 'summary': 'Integrating psychedelics, meditation, and contemplation for a balanced mind state and worldview.', 'duration': 68.095, 'max_score': 7431.54, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g7431540.jpg'}, {'end': 7550.43, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7528.016, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 7536.144, 'text': 'you should have a meditative practice, You should find a contemplative practice and you should find a moving mindfulness practice,', 'start': 7528.016, 'duration': 8.128}, {'end': 7540.63, 'text': 'especially one that is conducive to the flow state, and practice them in an integrated fashion.', 'start': 7536.144, 'duration': 4.486}, {'end': 7547.278, 'text': 'Can you elaborate what those practices might look like? Right, exactly.', 'start': 7541.951, 'duration': 5.327}, {'end': 7548.099, 'text': 'Generally speaking.', 'start': 7547.318, 'duration': 0.781}, {'end': 7550.43, 'text': 'meditative practice, like Vipassana.', 'start': 7548.669, 'duration': 1.761}], 'summary': 'Integrate meditative, contemplative, and mindfulness practices, like vipassana, for achieving flow state.', 'duration': 22.414, 'max_score': 7528.016, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g7528016.jpg'}, {'end': 7834.122, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7803.895, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 7805.877, 'text': 'I taught meditating with John Vervaeke.', 'start': 7803.895, 'duration': 1.982}, {'end': 7810.2, 'text': 'I did all the way through meditation, contemplation, even some of the movement practices.', 'start': 7806.297, 'duration': 3.903}, {'end': 7811.821, 'text': "That's all there, it's all available.", 'start': 7810.46, 'duration': 1.361}, {'end': 7814.223, 'text': 'That was largely inspired by Buddhism and Daoism.', 'start': 7812.101, 'duration': 2.122}, {'end': 7821.508, 'text': 'And then I went into the Western tradition and went through things like Stoicism and Neoplatonism, cultivating wisdom with John Vervaeke.', 'start': 7815.404, 'duration': 6.104}, {'end': 7822.209, 'text': "That's all there.", 'start': 7821.528, 'duration': 0.681}, {'end': 7823.378, 'text': 'All free.', 'start': 7823.058, 'duration': 0.32}, {'end': 7826.499, 'text': "On your website? Yeah, it's on my YouTube channel, yeah.", 'start': 7823.878, 'duration': 2.621}, {'end': 7829.06, 'text': 'On your YouTube channel? Okay.', 'start': 7826.559, 'duration': 2.501}, {'end': 7829.98, 'text': "That's exciting.", 'start': 7829.38, 'duration': 0.6}, {'end': 7834.122, 'text': 'I mean, your Meaning Crisis lectures is just incredible.', 'start': 7830.981, 'duration': 3.141}], 'summary': 'Meditation and wisdom teachings from diverse traditions, all available for free on the youtube channel, including meaning crisis lectures.', 'duration': 30.227, 'max_score': 7803.895, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g7803895.jpg'}, {'end': 7872.721, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7848.438, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 7857.202, 'text': 'And first of all, you need to understand what flow is, and then you need to confront a particular issue, a practical problem around flow.', 'start': 7848.438, 'duration': 8.764}, {'end': 7861.664, 'text': "Let's go there, because a lot of those words seem like synonyms to people sometimes.", 'start': 7857.382, 'duration': 4.282}, {'end': 7871.228, 'text': 'So the state of flow, what is it? All right, so, and he just died last year, Csikszentmihalyi.', 'start': 7862.364, 'duration': 8.864}, {'end': 7872.721, 'text': 'I admire him very much.', 'start': 7871.641, 'duration': 1.08}], 'summary': 'Understanding the concept of flow and confronting practical issues related to it.', 'duration': 24.283, 'max_score': 7848.438, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g7848438.jpg'}], 'start': 7329.591, 'title': 'Meditation, contemplation, and mindfulness', 'summary': 'Discusses the interconnectedness of meditation, contemplation, and mindfulness and their role in enhancing insight and self-regulation, with insights from the science of meditation and psychedelics, as well as practical advice on specific techniques and teachings available online.', 'chapters': [{'end': 7499.635, 'start': 7329.591, 'title': 'Meditation, contemplation, and mindfulness', 'summary': 'Discusses the distinction between meditation, contemplation, and mindfulness, emphasizing their interconnectedness and their role in enhancing insight and self-regulation, with insights from the science of meditation and psychedelics.', 'duration': 170.044, 'highlights': ['The distinction between meditation and contemplation is emphasized, highlighting their different focuses and the mistake of treating them as synonyms.', 'Mindfulness is described as encompassing the ability to break away from an inappropriate frame and the ability to create a new frame, thus enhancing insight and self-regulation.', 'The interconnectedness of meditation, contemplation, and mindfulness is highlighted, emphasizing the need to cycle between them to avoid potential negative outcomes such as inflation, projective fantasy, withdrawal, and spiritual bypassing.', 'The integration process after meditation and psychedelics is compared, emphasizing the role of contemplation in integrating new perspectives into a new worldview.', 'The concept of opponent processing and the need for an ecology of practices, incorporating both meditation and contemplation, is discussed, emphasizing their role as checks and balances on each other.']}, {'end': 7903.557, 'start': 7500.549, 'title': 'Mindfulness and meditation practices', 'summary': 'Discusses the importance of having a meditative practice, a contemplative practice, and a moving mindfulness practice in an integrated fashion, along with practical advice on meditation and mindfulness, including specific techniques and teachings available online.', 'duration': 403.008, 'highlights': ["The importance of integrating a meditative practice, a contemplative practice, and a moving mindfulness practice. It is crucial to have a meditative practice, a contemplative practice, and a moving mindfulness practice, and to integrate them into one's routine for overall well-being and mental clarity.", 'Specific techniques for meditative practice, such as Vipassana meditation, focusing on sensations and addressing distractions. The meditative practice involves focusing on sensations, particularly on the abdomen during breathing, and addressing distractions by labeling the process with an ING word and returning attention to the breath.', "Teachings available online, including meditation, contemplation, and movement practices inspired by Buddhism, Daoism, Stoicism, and Neoplatonism. 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And so we actually proposed two interlocking cognitive processes.', 'start': 8140.679, 'duration': 10.301}, {'end': 8157.003, 'text': "The first thing we said is, well, what's going on in flow? 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There's a lot of complex variables.", 'start': 8252.99, 'duration': 10.069}], 'summary': 'Implicit learning enables tracking complex variables without conscious knowledge, as proposed by hogarth in educating intuition.', 'duration': 29.796, 'max_score': 8233.263, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g8233263.jpg'}, {'end': 8514.035, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8482.353, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 8486.136, 'text': 'is itself also predictive and interrelated with how meaningful you find your life.', 'start': 8482.353, 'duration': 3.783}, {'end': 8495.717, 'text': "One of the things that you can do but there's an important caveat to increase your sense of meaning in life is to get into the flow state more frequently.", 'start': 8486.496, 'duration': 9.221}, {'end': 8499.781, 'text': "That's why I said you want a moving practice that's conducive to the flow state.", 'start': 8496.358, 'duration': 3.423}, {'end': 8506.289, 'text': "But there's one important caveat, which is We,", 'start': 8500.122, 'duration': 6.167}, {'end': 8514.035, 'text': "of course have figured out and I'm playing with words here how to game this and how to hijack it by creating things like video games.", 'start': 8506.289, 'duration': 7.746}], 'summary': 'To increase meaning in life, aim for flow state, despite potential hijacking by activities like video games.', 'duration': 31.682, 'max_score': 8482.353, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g8482353.jpg'}, {'end': 8807.8, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8775.59, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 8779.673, 'text': "So one of the ways you address this, and it's not sufficient.", 'start': 8775.59, 'duration': 4.083}, {'end': 8781.195, 'text': 'and I did say the work is preliminary.', 'start': 8779.673, 'duration': 1.522}, {'end': 8788.46, 'text': "but if I can give you a plausible mechanism, that's new and then that lends credence.", 'start': 8781.195, 'duration': 7.265}, {'end': 8792.384, 'text': 'And part of what happens is illusory social comparison.', 'start': 8788.761, 'duration': 3.623}, {'end': 8794.257, 'text': 'Think of Instagram.', 'start': 8793.417, 'duration': 0.84}, {'end': 8799.278, 'text': 'People are posting things that are not accurate representation of their life or life events.', 'start': 8794.317, 'duration': 4.961}, {'end': 8807.8, 'text': 'In fact they will stage things, but the people that are looking at these right, they take it often as real,', 'start': 8799.578, 'duration': 8.222}], 'summary': 'Preliminary work on addressing illusory social comparison, exemplified by instagram.', 'duration': 32.21, 'max_score': 8775.59, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g8775590.jpg'}, {'end': 8842.663, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8820.123, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 8827.77, 'text': "they're getting them moment by moment, and so it's a plausible mechanism that why it might be driving people into a more depressed state.", 'start': 8820.123, 'duration': 7.647}, {'end': 8835.717, 'text': "so okay, the flip side of that is because there's a greater, greater gap going from real world to instagram world.", 'start': 8827.77, 'duration': 7.947}, {'end': 8839.861, 'text': "you start to be able to laugh at it and realize that it's artificial.", 'start': 8835.717, 'duration': 4.144}, {'end': 8842.663, 'text': 'so, for example, even just artificial filters.', 'start': 8839.861, 'duration': 2.802}], 'summary': 'Increased exposure to social media may drive people into a more depressed state due to the contrast between real life and the artificial world of social media.', 'duration': 22.54, 'max_score': 8820.123, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g8820123.jpg'}, {'end': 8883.951, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8858.602, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 8865.766, 'text': "In the real world, you can't, and you start to develop an understanding of how to have fun in the virtual world and in the physical world.", 'start': 8858.602, 'duration': 7.164}, {'end': 8868.387, 'text': 'And I think this is a pushback.', 'start': 8866.126, 'duration': 2.261}, {'end': 8869.767, 'text': "I'm not saying either is true, though.", 'start': 8868.427, 'duration': 1.34}, {'end': 8871.008, 'text': 'Those are very interesting claims.', 'start': 8869.827, 'duration': 1.181}, {'end': 8880.43, 'text': 'The more ridiculously out of touch Instagram becomes, the easier you can laugh it off, potentially, in terms of the effect it has on your psyche.', 'start': 8871.708, 'duration': 8.722}, {'end': 8881.41, 'text': "So I'll respond to that.", 'start': 8880.45, 'duration': 0.96}, {'end': 8883.951, 'text': 'But at some point, we should get back to flow.', 'start': 8881.65, 'duration': 2.301}], 'summary': 'Balancing virtual and physical fun impacts our 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The chapter emphasizes the importance of creating environments akin to scientific experiments, which can help individuals distinguish causation from correlation, ultimately fostering the best kind of intuitions conducive to the flow state.', 'Excessive engagement in video games can hinder the transfer of the flow state to the real world, potentially leading to depression. The transcript highlights the potential negative impact of excessive video game engagement, suggesting that it can hinder the transfer of the flow state to the real world and lead to depression, positioning depression as the antithesis of flow.', "Flow state is a good predictor of life satisfaction and meaning. 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leading to a sense of grace, super salience, and discovery.', 'The chapter proposes two interlocking cognitive processes in flow: constant restructuring similar to insight and implicit learning, leading to the ability to track complex variables without explicit awareness, such as intuitive social behaviors.', 'Creating environments resembling scientific experiments can foster the best kind of intuitions, leading to flow state.', 'The chapter emphasizes the importance of creating environments akin to scientific experiments, which can help individuals distinguish causation from correlation, ultimately fostering the best kind of intuitions conducive to the flow state.', "The chapter indicates that the flow state serves as a good predictor of life satisfaction and meaning, suggesting that the frequency of experiencing the flow state can enhance one's sense of meaning in life.", 'The increase in social media is strongly correlated with an increase in depression and self-destructive behavior, potentially due to illusory social comparison and the artificial nature of content on platforms like Instagram.', 'The discussion highlights the impact of illusory social comparison on social media, where people often perceive staged and unrealistic content as real, leading to downward social comparison and potentially driving individuals into a more depressed state.', 'The potential for individuals to develop a greater gap between the real world and the virtual world of social media, leading to a pushback and the ability to laugh off the artificial nature of content, akin to the distinction between the video game world and the real world.', 'The chapter emphasizes the capacity for social media to trigger salience without triggering reflective truth-seeking, leading to concerns about the influence of advertisers and the potential impact on consumer behavior.', 'The proposed interlocking cognitive processes at work in flow, involving constant restructuring and implicit 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mystical experiences, and they aren't the same.", 'start': 9346.38, 'duration': 3.841}, {'end': 9358.945, 'text': 'So, for example, in the Griffiths lab They gave people psilocybin and they taught them ahead of time how,', 'start': 9351.942, 'duration': 7.003}], 'summary': 'Psychedelic states are on a continuum, overlapping with flow and mystical experiences. psilocybin study conducted in griffiths lab.', 'duration': 28.489, 'max_score': 9330.456, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g9330456.jpg'}, {'end': 9391.138, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9368.169, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 9376.652, 'text': 'What was interesting is the people that had the mystical experience had measurable and longstanding change to one of the big five factors of personality.', 'start': 9368.169, 'duration': 8.483}, {'end': 9378.213, 'text': 'They had increased openness.', 'start': 9376.952, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 9380.434, 'text': 'Openness is supposed to actually go down over time.', 'start': 9378.333, 'duration': 2.101}, {'end': 9386.688, 'text': "And these traits aren't supposed to be that malleable, and it was significantly like altered, right?", 'start': 9380.854, 'duration': 5.834}, {'end': 9391.138, 'text': 'But imagine if you just created more openness in a person.', 'start': 9387.109, 'duration': 4.029}], 'summary': 'People with mystical experience had measurable increase in openness, contrary to typical decrease over time.', 'duration': 22.969, 'max_score': 9368.169, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g9368169.jpg'}, {'end': 9445.395, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9418.176, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 9422.435, 'text': "And when people do that, That's when I call it a transformative experience.", 'start': 9418.176, 'duration': 4.259}, {'end': 9430.983, 'text': 'Now the higher states of consciousness are really interesting because they tend to move people from a mystical experience into a transformative experience.', 'start': 9423.416, 'duration': 7.567}, {'end': 9435.347, 'text': 'Because what happens in these experiences is something really, really interesting.', 'start': 9431.423, 'duration': 3.924}, {'end': 9437.289, 'text': "They get to a state that's ineffable.", 'start': 9435.927, 'duration': 1.362}, {'end': 9438.39, 'text': "They can't put it into words.", 'start': 9437.309, 'duration': 1.081}, {'end': 9439.23, 'text': "They can't describe it.", 'start': 9438.43, 'duration': 0.8}, {'end': 9445.395, 'text': "But they do this, they're in this state temporarily, and then they come back and they do this.", 'start': 9440.251, 'duration': 5.144}], 'summary': 'Higher states of consciousness lead to transformative experiences that are ineffable and temporary.', 'duration': 27.219, 'max_score': 9418.176, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g9418176.jpg'}], 'start': 8940.149, 'title': 'Psychedelics and consciousness', 'summary': "Delves into the potential transfer of skills from tai chi chuan, compares the effect of psychedelics on the brain to preventing overfitting in neural networks, and explores the transformative potential of higher states of consciousness, which have measurable and lasting effects on personality and improve various aspects of individuals' lives.", 'chapters': [{'end': 9234.372, 'start': 8940.149, 'title': 'Psychedelics and neural networks', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential transfer of skills and experiences from tai chi chuan to daily interactions, and compares the effect of psychedelics on the brain to preventing overfitting in neural networks, suggesting that psychedelics can open up new perspectives and insights.', 'duration': 294.223, 'highlights': ['Psychedelics can induce significant constraint reduction in the brain, leading to the opening up of new perspectives and insights, similar to preventing overfitting in neural networks.', 'The transfer of skills and experiences from regular practice of Tai Chi Chuan to daily interactions is highlighted, showcasing the potential for unexpected and beneficial changes in behavior and mindset.', 'Neural networks, like humans with intuition and implicit learning, can suffer from overfitting to the data, and strategies such as dropout and noise injection are used to prevent this and allow for more powerful generalization to the environment.', 'The comparison between the effect of psychedelics on the brain and the strategies used to prevent overfitting in neural networks is drawn, emphasizing the potential of psychedelics to open up new mental spaces and trigger insights by breaking out of overfitting to the data.']}, {'end': 9547.641, 'start': 9235.172, 'title': 'Psychedelics and higher states of consciousness', 'summary': "Explores the importance of integrating psychedelics within a sacred framework, the continuum of psychedelic experiences, and the transformative potential of higher states of consciousness, which have measurable and lasting effects on personality and improve various aspects of individuals' lives.", 'duration': 312.469, 'highlights': ['The transformative potential of higher states of consciousness is highlighted by measurable and lasting changes to one of the big five factors of personality, with increased openness observed in individuals who had a mystical experience after taking psilocybin. The measurable and lasting change in personality traits, particularly increased openness, demonstrates the transformative impact of higher states of consciousness, as it defies the typical expectations of personality traits being less malleable over time.', "Individuals who undergo transformative experiences through higher states of consciousness experience improvements in various aspects of their lives, including relationships, self-esteem, anxiety levels, and depression, as objectively measured by several criteria. The objective improvements in individuals' lives, including enhanced relationships, reduced anxiety and depression, and improved self-esteem, highlight the tangible and positive impact of transformative experiences facilitated by higher states of consciousness.", "The chapter emphasizes the need for a sacred framework for practicing psychedelics, aligning with indigenous cultures' approach to integrating psychedelics within a sapiential framework focused on self-transcendence, meaning cultivation, and wisdom enhancement. The emphasis on a sacred framework for psychedelic practices, rooted in indigenous cultures' approach, underscores the importance of integrating psychedelics within a context that promotes self-transcendence, meaning cultivation, and wisdom enhancement, as opposed to viewing them solely as commodities for inducing phenomenological changes.", 'The continuum of psychedelic experiences, ranging from insight and flow to psychedelic and mystical experiences, highlights the nuanced nature of these states and their potential for transformative effects, bridging mystical experiences with genuine transformative experiences. The continuum of psychedelic experiences illustrates the diverse nature of these states and their potential for transformation, particularly in bridging the gap between mystical experiences and genuine transformative experiences, thereby emphasizing the complexity and potential of psychedelic experiences.']}], 'duration': 607.492, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g8940149.jpg', 'highlights': ['Psychedelics induce constraint reduction in the brain, similar to preventing overfitting in neural networks.', 'Regular Tai Chi Chuan practice transfers skills to daily interactions, leading to unexpected and beneficial changes in behavior and mindset.', 'Strategies like dropout and noise injection prevent overfitting in neural networks, allowing for more powerful generalization to the environment.', 'Psychedelics have the potential to open up new mental spaces and trigger insights by breaking out of overfitting to the data.', 'Mystical experiences after taking psilocybin lead to measurable and lasting changes in personality, particularly increased openness.', 'Transformative experiences through higher states of consciousness result in improvements in relationships, self-esteem, anxiety levels, and depression.', 'A sacred framework for psychedelic practices promotes self-transcendence, meaning cultivation, and wisdom enhancement.', 'The continuum of psychedelic experiences illustrates their diverse nature and potential for transformation, bridging the gap between mystical and transformative experiences.']}, {'end': 10510.021, 'segs': [{'end': 9573.52, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9551.041, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 9561.89, 'text': 'I have to ask you about this fascinating distributed cognition process that leads to mass formation of ideologies that have had an impact on our world.', 'start': 9551.041, 'duration': 10.849}, {'end': 9569.396, 'text': 'So you spoke about the clash of the two great pseudo-religious ideologies of Marxism and Nazism.', 'start': 9562.551, 'duration': 6.845}, {'end': 9572.479, 'text': 'Yes Especially their clash on the Eastern Front.', 'start': 9569.456, 'duration': 3.023}, {'end': 9573.52, 'text': 'Battle of Kursk.', 'start': 9573.019, 'duration': 0.501}], 'summary': 'Discussion on distributed cognition, impact of marxism and nazism clash on eastern front, including battle of kursk.', 'duration': 22.479, 'max_score': 9551.041, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g9551041.jpg'}, {'end': 9674.523, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9653.21, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 9662.564, 'text': 'But basically what it did was it took that religious vision and gave it the air of philosophical intelligibility and respect.', 'start': 9653.21, 'duration': 9.354}, {'end': 9672.121, 'text': 'And then Marx takes that and says you know that process by which the narrative is working itself out, that Hegel called dialectic?', 'start': 9664.175, 'duration': 7.946}, {'end': 9674.523, 'text': "I don't think it's primarily happening in ideas.", 'start': 9672.441, 'duration': 2.082}], 'summary': "Hegel's religious vision made philosophically intelligible, marx questions the dialectic process.", 'duration': 21.313, 'max_score': 9653.21, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g9653210.jpg'}, {'end': 10084.871, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10056.63, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 10060.232, 'text': 'Ground zero with Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, right? Exactly.', 'start': 10056.63, 'duration': 3.602}, {'end': 10068.217, 'text': 'And you can only believe in an ends that can justify any means, if you believe in a utopia.', 'start': 10060.633, 'duration': 7.584}, {'end': 10072.199, 'text': 'and you can only believe in the utopia if you really buy into the Promethean spirit.', 'start': 10068.217, 'duration': 3.982}, {'end': 10078.042, 'text': 'So is that what explains Nazism? So Nazism is part of that too.', 'start': 10072.519, 'duration': 5.523}, {'end': 10084.871, 'text': 'The Promethean spirit that we can make ourselves into supermen Ubermensch right?', 'start': 10078.102, 'duration': 6.769}], 'summary': 'Discussion on the link between utopia, ends justifying means, and nazism.', 'duration': 28.241, 'max_score': 10056.63, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g10056630.jpg'}, {'end': 10323.973, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 10196.273, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 10202.277, 'text': "So, in this distributed cognition, where everyone's having a dialogue, what's the role of the charismatic leader??", 'start': 10196.273, 'duration': 6.004}, {'end': 10209.922, 'text': 'Is it an emergent phenomena or do you need one of those to kind of guide the populace??', 'start': 10202.777, 'duration': 7.145}, {'end': 10213.451, 'text': "I hope it's not a necessary requirement.", 'start': 10210.307, 'duration': 3.144}, {'end': 10217.356, 'text': 'I hope that the next Buddha can be the Sangha rather than a specific individual.', 'start': 10213.611, 'duration': 3.745}, {'end': 10228.27, 'text': "But I think in that situation, Hitler's charisma allowed him to take on a mythological, in the proper sense, archetypal.", 'start': 10218.918, 'duration': 9.352}, {'end': 10238.186, 'text': 'He became deeply symbolic and he instituted all kinds of rituals, all kinds of rituals and all kinds of mythos.', 'start': 10229.38, 'duration': 8.806}, {'end': 10243.109, 'text': "There's all this mythos about the master race and there's all these rituals.", 'start': 10238.466, 'duration': 4.643}, {'end': 10246.991, 'text': 'The swastika is, of course, itself a religious symbol.', 'start': 10243.809, 'duration': 3.182}, {'end': 10260.988, 'text': "There's all of this going on because he was tapping into the fact that when you put people into deeper and deeper meaning scarcity,", 'start': 10247.712, 'duration': 13.276}, {'end': 10271.277, 'text': 'they will fall back on more and more mythological ways of thinking in order to try and come up with a generative source to give them new meaning making,', 'start': 10260.988, 'duration': 10.289}, {'end': 10274.039, 'text': 'I should say meaning participating behavior.', 'start': 10271.277, 'duration': 2.762}, {'end': 10282.703, 'text': "What is evil? Is this a word you avoid? No, I don't.", 'start': 10276.161, 'duration': 6.542}, {'end': 10291.673, 'text': "Because I think part of what we're wrestling with here is resisting the Enlightenment.", 'start': 10283.584, 'duration': 8.089}, {'end': 10302.385, 'text': 'I mean the historical period in Europe, the idea that evil and sin can just be reduced to immorality, individual, human immorality.', 'start': 10291.673, 'duration': 10.712}, {'end': 10308.748, 'text': "I think there's something deeper in the idea of sin than just immoral.", 'start': 10303.866, 'duration': 4.882}, {'end': 10312.969, 'text': 'I think sin is a much more comprehensive category.', 'start': 10309.288, 'duration': 3.681}, {'end': 10320.692, 'text': 'I think sin is a failure to love wisely so that you ultimately engage in a kind of idolatry.', 'start': 10313.109, 'duration': 7.583}, {'end': 10323.973, 'text': 'You take something as ultimate, which is not.', 'start': 10321.392, 'duration': 2.581}], 'summary': "Charismatic leader's role in distributed cognition and the impact of mythological thinking on society.", 'duration': 127.7, 'max_score': 10196.273, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g10196273.jpg'}, {'end': 10246.991, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10218.918, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 10228.27, 'text': "But I think in that situation, Hitler's charisma allowed him to take on a mythological, in the proper sense, archetypal.", 'start': 10218.918, 'duration': 9.352}, {'end': 10238.186, 'text': 'He became deeply symbolic and he instituted all kinds of rituals, all kinds of rituals and all kinds of mythos.', 'start': 10229.38, 'duration': 8.806}, {'end': 10243.109, 'text': "There's all this mythos about the master race and there's all these rituals.", 'start': 10238.466, 'duration': 4.643}, {'end': 10246.991, 'text': 'The swastika is, of course, itself a religious symbol.', 'start': 10243.809, 'duration': 3.182}], 'summary': "Hitler's charisma created symbolic rituals and mythos, including the master race myth and the use of the swastika.", 'duration': 28.073, 'max_score': 10218.918, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g10218918.jpg'}], 'start': 9551.041, 'title': 'Influence of philosophers on ideologies', 'summary': "Delves into the clash of marxism and nazism, examining the influence of philosophers such as hegel, kant, and fichte. it discusses hegel's influence on marxism, the core ideas of marxism and communism, and hitler's charisma and the concept of sin, offering insights into their impact on the 20th century.", 'chapters': [{'end': 9608.866, 'start': 9551.041, 'title': 'Distributed cognition and ideological impact', 'summary': 'Explores the distributed cognition process leading to the mass formation of ideologies, focusing on the clash of marxism and nazism, with a specific emphasis on their clash on the eastern front, notably the battle of kursk, and delves into the origins of these ideologies through the influence of philosophers such as hegel, kant, and fichte.', 'duration': 57.825, 'highlights': ['The clash of Marxism and Nazism, particularly on the Eastern Front and the Battle of Kursk, demonstrates the impact of distributed cognition in shaping ideologies.', 'The origins of Marxism and Nazism are linked to the influence of philosophers such as Hegel, Kant, and Fichte, who played a significant role in the formation of these ideologies through their philosophical systems.']}, {'end': 9888.713, 'start': 9608.906, 'title': "Hegel's influence on marxism", 'summary': "Discusses how hegel's philosophical system laid the groundwork for marx's dialectical materialism, creating a pseudo-religious vision of history and society, leading to the implementation of marxism in the name of communism, offering people the hope of creating a new world and new human beings.", 'duration': 279.807, 'highlights': ["Hegel's philosophical system laid the groundwork for Marx's dialectical materialism, creating a pseudo-religious vision of history and society. Hegel aimed to create a philosophical system that incorporated the core mythos of Christianity, allowing for co-participation with God in creating a better future, which Marx adapted into a pseudo-religious worldview based on class struggle and societal transformation.", 'Implementation of Marxism in the name of communism offered the hope of creating a new world and new human beings, similar to religious utopia. The implementation of Marxism in the name of communism provided a promise of creating a new world and new human beings, akin to a religious utopia, with the scientific legitimacy of understanding history and economics, captivating people in oppressive societies.', "Marxism as an activist ideology focused on reorganizing society and inducing significant propositional changes in individuals. Marxism was not just a philosophical or economic position, but an entire worldview and account of history, leading to activism in reorganizing society and inducing propositional changes in individuals, aligning with Hegel's focus on societal transformation."]}, {'end': 10217.356, 'start': 9889.682, 'title': 'Marxism, communism, and human nature', 'summary': 'Explores the core ideas of marxism and communism, the complexities of human nature, and the promethean spirit, examining their influence on the 20th century and their connection to nazism and gnosticism.', 'duration': 327.674, 'highlights': ['The Promethean spirit and its influence on Marxism, communism, and Nazism The chapter delves into the Promethean spirit, its influence on Marxism and communism, and its connection to Nazism, highlighting the complexities of human nature and the impact on 20th-century history.', 'Complexities of human nature and hierarchies The discussion explores the complexities of human nature in hierarchies, pointing out the challenges in understanding distributed cognition and the factors that led to the failures of Marxism and communism.', 'Nazism as a religious and meaning crisis phenomena The transcript examines Nazism as a religious and meaning crisis phenomena, emphasizing its connection to the loss of religion, the Gnostic themes, and the role of charismatic leaders in shaping Nazi Germany.']}, {'end': 10510.021, 'start': 10218.918, 'title': "Hitler's charisma and the concept of sin", 'summary': "Discusses how hitler's charisma led to the institution of mythological rituals and the concept of sin as a failure to love wisely, connecting it to the banality of evil and the importance of religious texts, while exploring the struggle to find a proper relationship with christianity through detours in other beliefs.", 'duration': 291.103, 'highlights': ["Hitler's charisma led to the institution of mythological rituals and symbolism, tapping into people's deeper meaning scarcity. Hitler's charisma allowed him to institute mythological rituals and symbolism, tapping into people's deeper meaning scarcity, which is an important factor in understanding his influence.", 'The concept of sin is discussed as a failure to love wisely, leading to a disconnection from the structures of reality. The discussion of sin as a failure to love wisely highlights the idea that it leads to a disconnection from the structures of reality, emphasizing the importance of making choices that align with a greater good.', "The struggle to find a proper, respectful relationship with Christianity via detours through Buddhism, Daoism, and pagan Neoplatonism is mentioned. The struggle to find a proper, respectful relationship with Christianity through detours in other beliefs, such as Buddhism and Daoism, illustrates the complexity of navigating one's faith and beliefs."]}], 'duration': 958.98, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g9551041.jpg', 'highlights': ['The clash of Marxism and Nazism, particularly on the Eastern Front and the Battle of Kursk, demonstrates the impact of distributed cognition in shaping ideologies.', "Hegel's philosophical system laid the groundwork for Marx's dialectical materialism, creating a pseudo-religious vision of history and society.", 'The Promethean spirit and its influence on Marxism, communism, and Nazism The chapter delves into the Promethean spirit, its influence on Marxism and communism, and its connection to Nazism, highlighting the complexities of human nature and the impact on 20th-century history.', "Hitler's charisma led to the institution of mythological rituals and symbolism, tapping into people's deeper meaning scarcity."]}, {'end': 11452.096, 'segs': [{'end': 10605.576, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10564.086, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 10569.51, 'text': "he's a big influence on what's called 40, cognitive science and this whole idea about the non-propositional.", 'start': 10564.086, 'duration': 5.424}, {'end': 10573.914, 'text': 'that was deeply, you know, afforded by heidegger and marlo ponti.', 'start': 10569.51, 'duration': 4.404}, {'end': 10578.618, 'text': 'but i guess maybe the one idea, if i had to pick one, is his critique of onto theology,', 'start': 10573.914, 'duration': 4.704}, {'end': 10584.982, 'text': 'his critique of the attempt to understand being in terms of a supreme being, something like that,', 'start': 10579.338, 'duration': 5.644}, {'end': 10593.007, 'text': 'and how that gets us fundamentally messed up and we get disconnected from being because we are over-focused on particular beings.', 'start': 10584.982, 'duration': 8.025}, {'end': 10594.548, 'text': "We're failing to love wisely.", 'start': 10593.207, 'duration': 1.341}, {'end': 10599.692, 'text': "We're loving the individual things, and we're not loving the ground from which they spring.", 'start': 10594.829, 'duration': 4.863}, {'end': 10601.333, 'text': 'Can you explain that a little more?', 'start': 10599.712, 'duration': 1.621}, {'end': 10605.576, 'text': "What's the difference between the being and the supreme being and why that gets us into trouble?", 'start': 10602.154, 'duration': 3.422}], 'summary': 'Merleau-ponty critiques onto-theology, emphasizing disconnection from being by over-focusing on individual beings.', 'duration': 41.49, 'max_score': 10564.086, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g10564086.jpg'}, {'end': 10656.383, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10630.289, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 10640.454, 'text': "Tillich's great idea is understanding faith as ultimate concern, rather than set of propositions that you're asserting right.", 'start': 10630.289, 'duration': 10.165}, {'end': 10645.076, 'text': "so what you're right, what you, what are you ultimately concerned about?", 'start': 10640.454, 'duration': 4.622}, {'end': 10646.457, 'text': 'what do you want to have?', 'start': 10645.076, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 10653.981, 'text': 'what do you want to be in right relationship to ratio, religio, what, what, and is that ultimate?', 'start': 10646.457, 'duration': 7.524}, {'end': 10656.383, 'text': 'is that the ultimate reality that you conceive of?', 'start': 10653.981, 'duration': 2.402}], 'summary': 'Tillich defines faith as ultimate concern, not as asserting propositions; it is about what one ultimately desires and sees as the ultimate reality.', 'duration': 26.094, 'max_score': 10630.289, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g10630289.jpg'}, {'end': 10716.854, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10687.572, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 10689.574, 'text': 'Which aspect of his model of the psyche? Directly.', 'start': 10687.572, 'duration': 2.002}, {'end': 10691.455, 'text': 'So Freud has a hydraulic model.', 'start': 10689.674, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 10692.856, 'text': 'The psyche is like a steam engine.', 'start': 10691.535, 'duration': 1.321}, {'end': 10693.977, 'text': 'Things are under pressure.', 'start': 10692.896, 'duration': 1.081}, {'end': 10696.239, 'text': "There's a fluid that's moving around.", 'start': 10694.457, 'duration': 1.782}, {'end': 10699.301, 'text': "It's like, like this is, Ricoeur noted this.", 'start': 10696.319, 'duration': 2.982}, {'end': 10701.283, 'text': 'Jung has an organic model.', 'start': 10699.822, 'duration': 1.461}, {'end': 10703.67, 'text': 'The psyche is like a living being.', 'start': 10701.769, 'duration': 1.901}, {'end': 10706.03, 'text': "It's doing all this opponent processing.", 'start': 10704.03, 'duration': 2}, {'end': 10709.552, 'text': "It's doing all of this self-transcending and growing.", 'start': 10706.391, 'duration': 3.161}, {'end': 10716.854, 'text': "And I think that's a much better model of the psyche than the sort of steam engine model.", 'start': 10709.572, 'duration': 7.282}], 'summary': "Freud's hydraulic model vs. jung's organic model of the psyche.", 'duration': 29.282, 'max_score': 10687.572, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g10687572.jpg'}, {'end': 10756.852, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10733.526, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 10741.948, 'text': 'Well, I mean both Freud and Jung are only talking about the psychodynamic unconscious, which is only a small part of the unconscious.', 'start': 10733.526, 'duration': 8.422}, {'end': 10745.029, 'text': 'Can you elaborate on the psychodynamic??', 'start': 10742.408, 'duration': 2.621}, {'end': 10756.852, 'text': "They're talking about the aspects of the unconscious that have to do with your sort of ego development and how you are understanding and interpreting yourself.", 'start': 10745.069, 'duration': 11.783}], 'summary': 'Freud and jung focus on the psychodynamic unconscious, a small part of the overall unconscious, related to ego development and self-interpretation.', 'duration': 23.326, 'max_score': 10733.526, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g10733526.jpg'}, {'end': 11078.995, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11048.778, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 11050.719, 'text': 'Try to keep away from the bullshit is the advice.', 'start': 11048.778, 'duration': 1.941}, {'end': 11053.381, 'text': 'Yes I take this very seriously.', 'start': 11050.919, 'duration': 2.462}, {'end': 11057.483, 'text': 'I was with a bunch of people in Vermont at the Respond Retreat.', 'start': 11053.401, 'duration': 4.082}, {'end': 11059.284, 'text': 'Rafe Kelly was there.', 'start': 11058.544, 'duration': 0.74}, {'end': 11064.663, 'text': 'A bunch of people who have set up ecologies of practices and created communities.', 'start': 11059.304, 'duration': 5.359}, {'end': 11071.349, 'text': 'And I have good reason to find all of these people trustworthy.', 'start': 11066.985, 'duration': 4.364}, {'end': 11078.995, 'text': 'And so we gathered together to try and generate real dialogos, flow in distributed cognition,', 'start': 11071.929, 'duration': 7.066}], 'summary': 'At the respond retreat in vermont, a group of trustworthy individuals gathered to generate real dialogos and flow in distributed cognition.', 'duration': 30.217, 'max_score': 11048.778, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g11048778.jpg'}, {'end': 11147.817, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11098.254, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 11101.416, 'text': 'Gurification of people or ideas? Both, both.', 'start': 11098.254, 'duration': 3.162}, {'end': 11103.096, 'text': 'Some of us just get unlucky.', 'start': 11101.916, 'duration': 1.18}, {'end': 11116.413, 'text': 'Some of us get unlucky and we all had a tremendous sense of urgency around this, but we were trying to balance it about not being premature.', 'start': 11103.157, 'duration': 13.256}, {'end': 11118.118, 'text': 'but there is going to.', 'start': 11116.413, 'duration': 1.705}, {'end': 11118.499, 'text': "I mean there's.", 'start': 11118.118, 'duration': 0.381}, {'end': 11121.856, 'text': "We're gonna produce a metacurriculum that's coming in months.", 'start': 11119.394, 'duration': 2.462}, {'end': 11130.343, 'text': "There's gonna be a scientific paper about integrating the scientific work on wisdom with this practitioner-based ideas about the cultivation of wisdom.", 'start': 11122.417, 'duration': 7.926}, {'end': 11142.914, 'text': "There's going to be projects about how we can create a self-correcting vetting system so we can say to people we think this ecology is legit.", 'start': 11130.944, 'duration': 11.97}, {'end': 11144.676, 'text': "it's in good fellowship with all these other.", 'start': 11142.914, 'duration': 1.762}, {'end': 11146.897, 'text': 'legit Ecology is?', 'start': 11144.676, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 11147.817, 'text': "we don't know about that one.", 'start': 11146.897, 'duration': 0.92}], 'summary': 'Plans include producing a metacurriculum, a scientific paper on wisdom, and creating a self-correcting vetting system.', 'duration': 49.563, 'max_score': 11098.254, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g11098254.jpg'}, {'end': 11242.809, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11215.004, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 11222.027, 'text': "So, you know, it required therapy, it required years of meditation and Tai Chi, and I'm still wrestling with it.", 'start': 11215.004, 'duration': 7.023}, {'end': 11231.119, 'text': 'But for the first four or five years, I would I described it like this.', 'start': 11222.247, 'duration': 8.872}, {'end': 11233.441, 'text': 'I called it the black burning.', 'start': 11231.139, 'duration': 2.302}, {'end': 11242.809, 'text': 'I felt like there was a blackness that was on fire inside of me, precisely because the religion had left a taste for the transcendent in my mouth,', 'start': 11233.481, 'duration': 9.328}], 'summary': "Struggling with the aftermath of the religion, required therapy, meditation, and tai chi. described the experience as the 'black burning.'", 'duration': 27.805, 'max_score': 11215.004, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g11215004.jpg'}, {'end': 11332.088, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11301.106, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 11302.227, 'text': 'You yourself are struggling.', 'start': 11301.106, 'duration': 1.121}, {'end': 11310.994, 'text': "But that's, in fact, the narrative is I struggled with it, thinking it was a purely personal, idiosyncratic thing.", 'start': 11302.647, 'duration': 8.347}, {'end': 11313.456, 'text': 'I started learning the Kogsai.', 'start': 11311.454, 'duration': 2.002}, {'end': 11315.257, 'text': 'I started doing the Tai Chi and the meditation.', 'start': 11313.476, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 11318.34, 'text': 'I started doing all this Socratic philosophy.', 'start': 11315.277, 'duration': 3.063}, {'end': 11328.447, 'text': "And when I started to talk about these pieces, I saw my students' eyes light up and I realized oh wait,", 'start': 11318.36, 'duration': 10.087}, {'end': 11332.088, 'text': "maybe this isn't just something I'm going through.", 'start': 11328.447, 'duration': 3.641}], 'summary': 'Struggling with personal issues led to embracing kogsai, tai chi, meditation, and socratic philosophy, benefiting students as well.', 'duration': 30.982, 'max_score': 11301.106, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g11301106.jpg'}, {'end': 11390.574, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11354.556, 'weight': 9, 'content': [{'end': 11358.42, 'text': "What's the role of love in the human condition? It's central.", 'start': 11354.556, 'duration': 3.864}, {'end': 11362.883, 'text': "I mean, it's even central to reason and rationality.", 'start': 11359.641, 'duration': 3.242}, {'end': 11369.408, 'text': 'This is Plato, but Spinoza, the most logical of the rationalists.', 'start': 11363.203, 'duration': 6.205}, {'end': 11374.993, 'text': "you know the ethics is written like Euclid's geometry, but he calls it the ethics for a reason.", 'start': 11369.408, 'duration': 5.585}, {'end': 11378.643, 'text': 'because he wants to talk about the blessed life.', 'start': 11376.681, 'duration': 1.962}, {'end': 11379.604, 'text': 'And what does he say??', 'start': 11378.723, 'duration': 0.881}, {'end': 11390.574, 'text': 'He says that ultimately, reason needs love, because love is what brings reason out of being entrapped in the gravity, well, of egocentrism.', 'start': 11379.624, 'duration': 10.95}], 'summary': 'Love is central to reason and rationality; reason needs love to escape egocentrism.', 'duration': 36.018, 'max_score': 11354.556, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g11354556.jpg'}], 'start': 10510.701, 'title': 'Philosophical ideas and models of the psyche', 'summary': "Discusses the failure to wrestle with existential questions, heidegger's critique of onto theology, tillich's concept of faith as ultimate concern, differences between carl jung and sigmund freud's models of the psyche, and the importance of finding an ecology of practices and a community that supports wisdom and virtue, especially in relationships, emphasizing the central role of love in the human condition.", 'chapters': [{'end': 10656.383, 'start': 10510.701, 'title': 'The meaning crisis and philosophical ideas', 'summary': "Discusses the failure to wrestle with existential questions, the influence of heidegger's critique of onto theology, and tillich's concept of faith as ultimate concern.", 'duration': 145.682, 'highlights': ["Heidegger's critique of onto theology and the disconnect caused by focusing on individual beings over the ground of being is a powerful idea that has had a huge influence.", "Tillich's concept of faith as ultimate concern, emphasizing what individuals are ultimately concerned about rather than a set of propositions, is another significant idea discussed.", 'The discussion also delves into the influence of Heidegger on cognitive science and the idea of non-propositional thinking, providing insights into the philosophical underpinnings of cognitive science.']}, {'end': 10935.799, 'start': 10656.383, 'title': 'Jung and freud: models of the psyche', 'summary': "Discusses the differences between carl jung and sigmund freud's models of the psyche, their views on the subconscious mind, and the motivations of humans, highlighting jung's organic model of the psyche, the comprehensive view of the unconscious, and the multicentered nature of human motivation.", 'duration': 279.416, 'highlights': ["Jung's organic model of the psyche, emphasizing opponent processing and self-transcending, is closer to cognitive science, offering a more comprehensive view of the unconscious.", 'The unconscious mind comprises more than the psychodynamic unconscious, as it also includes the unconscious that processes external stimuli into ideas, an aspect not extensively covered by Freud and Jung.', 'Rejecting the monological mind model, the discussion introduces the concept of multicentered motivation, proposing that individuals have different centers of motivation operating according to different principles.']}, {'end': 11165.005, 'start': 10938.262, 'title': 'Advice for young people', 'summary': 'Emphasizes the importance of finding an ecology of practices and a community that supports wisdom and virtue, especially in relationships, which are primary, and advocates for staying away from cult-like environments and bullshit, and highlights the efforts to develop a metacurriculum and scientific paper on wisdom cultivation.', 'duration': 226.743, 'highlights': ['The chapter emphasizes the importance of finding an ecology of practices and a community that supports wisdom and virtue, especially in relationships, which are primary.', 'The efforts to develop a metacurriculum and scientific paper on integrating scientific work on wisdom with practitioner-based ideas about the cultivation of wisdom.', 'The advice to stay away from cult-like environments and bullshit and the efforts to create a self-correcting vetting system for ecologies of practices.', 'The urgency and sense of balance in trying to address the problem of gurification and the emphasis on the significance of relationships and their cultivation for a fulfilling life.', 'The chapter also highlights the formation of communities and the collaborative efforts to exercise collective intelligence and generate real dialogos.']}, {'end': 11452.096, 'start': 11166.466, 'title': 'Struggle for meaning and love', 'summary': "Explores john vervaeke's personal struggle after leaving fundamentalist christianity, revealing a dark period of loneliness, existential anxiety, and self-destructive behavior, but ultimately finding meaning through meditation, philosophy, and the realization of the central role of love in the human condition.", 'duration': 285.63, 'highlights': ["John Vervaeke describes a dark period he went through after leaving fundamentalist Christianity, referring to it as the 'black burning' and experiencing feelings of loneliness, existential anxiety, and self-destructive behavior. John Vervaeke reveals his struggle with a dark period after leaving fundamentalist Christianity, describing it as the 'black burning' and expressing feelings of loneliness, existential anxiety, and self-destructive behavior.", 'Vervaeke emphasizes the importance of love in the human condition, drawing from perspectives of Plato, Spinoza, and Iris Murdoch, highlighting how love is essential for reason and rationality. Vervaeke underscores the significance of love in the human condition, drawing from the perspectives of Plato, Spinoza, and Iris Murdoch, and explaining how love is essential for reason and rationality.', 'Vervaeke found meaning through years of therapy, meditation, Tai Chi, and Socratic philosophy, indicating the transformative power of these practices in overcoming his struggles. Vervaeke found meaning through years of therapy, meditation, Tai Chi, and Socratic philosophy, illustrating the transformative power of these practices in overcoming his struggles.']}], 'duration': 941.395, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/yImlXr5Tr8g/pics/yImlXr5Tr8g10510701.jpg', 'highlights': ['The disconnect caused by focusing on individual beings over the ground of being is a powerful idea that has had a huge influence.', "Tillich's concept of faith as ultimate concern, emphasizing what individuals are ultimately concerned about rather than a set of propositions, is another significant idea discussed.", 'The discussion also delves into the influence of Heidegger on cognitive science and the idea of non-propositional thinking, providing insights into the philosophical underpinnings of cognitive science.', "Jung's organic model of the psyche, emphasizing opponent processing and self-transcending, is closer to cognitive science, offering a more comprehensive view of the unconscious.", 'The unconscious mind comprises more than the psychodynamic unconscious, as it also includes the unconscious that processes external stimuli into ideas, an aspect not extensively covered by Freud and Jung.', 'The chapter emphasizes the importance of finding an ecology of practices and a community that supports wisdom and virtue, especially in relationships, which are primary.', 'The advice to stay away from cult-like environments and bullshit and the efforts to create a self-correcting vetting system for ecologies of practices.', 'The urgency and sense of balance in trying to address the problem of gurification and the emphasis on the significance of relationships and their cultivation for a fulfilling life.', "John Vervaeke describes a dark period he went through after leaving fundamentalist Christianity, referring to it as the 'black burning' and experiencing feelings of loneliness, existential anxiety, and self-destructive behavior.", 'Vervaeke emphasizes the importance of love in the human condition, drawing from perspectives of Plato, Spinoza, and Iris Murdoch, highlighting how love is essential for reason and rationality.', 'Vervaeke found meaning through years of therapy, meditation, Tai Chi, and Socratic philosophy, indicating the transformative power of these practices in overcoming his struggles.']}], 'highlights': ['The meaning crisis resulting in increased depression, loneliness, cynicism, and existential anxiety in modern times, impacting mental health and well-being.', 'The concept of meaningful and meaningless deaths, highlighting evidence that individuals are willing to sacrifice their biological existence for deaths they consider meaningful.', 'Relevance realization shapes our interaction with the world, preceding and influencing beliefs and representations.', 'The realization of relevance goes beyond subjective or objective perspectives, and involves representing and instantiating properties of the world.', 'The interconnectedness of meditation, contemplation, and mindfulness is emphasized, cycling between them to avoid negative outcomes.', 'The flow state requires clear information, immediate feedback from the environment, and the anxiety of failure, leading to a sense of grace, super salience, and discovery.', 'Psychedelics induce constraint reduction in the brain, similar to preventing overfitting in neural networks.', 'The clash of Marxism and Nazism, particularly on the Eastern Front and the Battle of Kursk, demonstrates the impact of distributed cognition in shaping ideologies.', 'The disconnect caused by focusing on individual beings over the ground of being is a powerful idea that has had a huge influence.', 'The unconscious mind comprises more than the psychodynamic unconscious, as it also includes the unconscious that processes external stimuli into ideas, an aspect not extensively covered by Freud and Jung.']}