John Vervaeke & Lex Fridman on Meaning, Reality, & Religion - Theory of EveryOne Live

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Tonights stream is on Lex Fridman's latest discussion with John Vervaeke on the crisis of meaning, religion, reality, and wisdom. John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. We discuss it in this livestream.

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

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
11:30 John Vervaeke background
13:00 What is meaning?
30:30 Intelligence vs Consciousness
53:30 Is humanity a collective consciousness?
59:50 Sentience is needed for intelligence
1:02:00 Artificial intelligence
1:12:21 Wisdom
1:34:40 Relevance realization
1:41:30 What is a wise person?
1:49:49 Is everything an “illusion”?
1:57:10 What is the meaning of life?
2:10:40 The meaning crisis is a wisdom famine
2:22:40 The participatory environment
2:39:00 Non-theism
2:45:40 What Vervaeke gets wrong about theism
2:54:55 The secular definition of theism is wrong
2:58:00 Is meaning created or discovered?
3:10:30 What is evil?
3:14:00 Advice for young people

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[crucifixgym]

Still loving this channel, I’d rather watch these breakdowns than the original content sometimes as in this case. Seeing more sides to the story is what this brings.

[matthewcairns]

Each person is the actual centre of their own 'Uni-Verse' which means; One song yet we have an Orchestra of consciousness, The kingdom of God is Within Man, would make sense if the universe emerged as we were born.

[alexandros]

Why is sentience the primordial and not intelligence?

[Chrisiscool]

You’re an edc guy aren’t you? I see what looks like a sog kiku mounted back there with what looks like a handmade paracord lanyard hanging from it. I can tell you are a fellow critical thinker