Intimations of a New Worldview, Part 2.1: Mythology as a Collective Dream (video 1)

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Bak, P. (1996). How Nature Works: The science of self-organized criticality (1st ed.). Copernicus.
Campbell, J. (1949). The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell Foundation.
Dennett, D. (1987). Cognitive Wheels: The Frame Problem of AI. In K. M. Ford & Z. W. Pylyshyn (Eds.), The Robots Dilemma Revisited: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence (2nd edition). Praeger.
Peterson, J. B. (1999). Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1 edition). Routledge.
Vervaeke, J., & Ferraro, L. (2013b). Relevance Realization and the Neurodynamics and Neuroconnectivity of General Intelligence. In I. Harvey, A. Cavoukian, G. Tomko, D. Borrett, H. Kwan, & D. Hatzinakos (Eds.), SmartData (pp. 57–68). Springer.

[dr.paulj.watson]

Brett, What a delight. After many conversations (I'm a colleague of Brett's at UNM), it is so enjoyable and educational to get such a well organized and uninterrupted exposition of your thoughts on this area of your interest, which I share. // I always recommend to my own students of the evolutionary ecology of animal and human behavior to read Great Fiction to get the most, personally, out of their science-based exposures to the natural world. I think that part of the insight so gained involves an ability to generalize, on a deep level, the natural history of one animal, or one domain of species-typical human behavior, to the whole shebang. Including their own whole intrapsychic shebang. (This helps bring life-sustaining Meaning.) Partly for the same reason, I recommend to all human evolutionary psychology students that they engage in a substantive field study of some highly observable animal, preferably in nature. That animal and its mind have been built up by the same forces and processes of natural selection, and perhaps even more fundamental processes, as have one's own. Understanding the animal well (the longer the in situ exposure the better) helps the blossoming student who is (thinks they are?) primarily interested in human behavior and psychology to generalize. And that changes lives. // More to say about dreams, but maybe later... I am anxious to listen to more (all) of your series. I'm so impressed and uplifted by the content, and the cogency and care of the presentation. 🤠

[nealdtaylor]

I think you have saved me about five years of reading and thinking! This is phenomenal work. I instinctively had similar thoughts but didn't have the breadth of material to make those insights. Thank you.

[clintnorton]

Relevance realization is accomplished through multi-valent and multi-layered filtering, avoiding the combinitorial explosion trap that seems to hold too much weight in Vervaeke's system.

[jjjones]

Thank you for this research. It is interesting how Jung's archetype can also be filtered as generalization. Perhaps Peterson's orienting reflex can be viewed as a dialing between (fixed and generalization models), helping establish identity. Thank you again will be watching all these

[richardsantomauro]

Hey man - I noticed you took down the other series.

Please dont take this one down. It’s brilliant work, and it needs to remain available.

[alexandrazachary.musician]

Awesome! Great to hear your stuff Brett. Looking forward to more. 🙏🏽❤️

[martinchikilian]

The content in this video is fascinating.

Do you know of any good theories as to why dreams have to be 'generated' or 'played' as if they were a movie (ie, visually, to generalize) in the context mentioned here of learning (as opposed to, say, making a direct imprint on our neurocircuitry of 'generalized and learned concepts')? It's as if we still have to do relevance realization within our dreams first and dream interpretation second in order to generalize the specific data points portrayed in the dream.

[JohnSaber]

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