“I think why many people still are so deeply dependent on music, especially when they’re going through any transformative period in their life, is precisely because of the way it puts them back in touch and helps them remember — at least intuitively — some of this machinery of seriously…

“Awe pushes you towards an opening, an ongoing accommodation. A sense of the inexhaustibleness — the combinatorially explosive nature — of reality, and the ongoing, evolving, and adaptability of your relevance realization to that explosive potential of reality itself.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 32…

“A lot of the phenomenology of your consciousness is explained along with the functionality of your consciousness.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 31: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-dc9432065419) Ep. 32 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — RR in the Brain, Insight, and Consciousness [55:27] https://youtu.be/IZyWuD9UqI4 When neurons are…

“Sometimes what makes something relevant is how it’s the same, how it’s invariant. Sometimes what makes something relevant is how it’s different, how it changes. And you have to constantly shift the balance between those because that’s what reality is doing.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for…

“It is correct to say there are many categories that we form for which we cannot generate a scientific theory or explanation precisely because those categories are not homogeneous. They don’t have an essence.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 29: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-aebe5706b84c) Ep. 30— Awakening from…

“Relevance realization has to be happening both at the feature level and the gestalt level, in a highly integrated, interactive fashion.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 28: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-28-convergence-to-relevance-realization-b1364e2c2c81) Ep. 29 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Getting to the Depths of Relevance Realization [56:08]…

“You can’t say everything you want to convey. You rely on people reading between the lines. That is actually what this word means. One of the etymologies of ‘intelligence’ is inter-ledger, which means: to read between the lines.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 27: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-27-problem-formulation-summary-notes-9697835e8a47)

“What’s actually missing in an ill-defined problem is how to formulate the problem. How to zero in on the relevant information and constrain the problem so you can solve it.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 26: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-26-cognitive-science-summary-notes-8b12fe0d6075) Ep. 27 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis…

“I often say ‘meaning-making’ but as I’ll argue we don’t just make meaning the way the Romantics said, nor do we just receive meaning from the world the way the empiricists in the Enlightenment argued. …