“We’re seeing that wisdom is a dynamical system that is counteractive to the machinery of self-deception, and that helps to afford the self-organized transformation into the life of flourishing. A life that is deeply meaningful.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 44: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-44-ebc252d58c13) Ep. 45— Awakening…

“I think this is a very important thing to do, to try and figure out what wisdom is from an account of how one becomes wise.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 43: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-43-cdb2b2a5e8ba) Ep. 44 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Theories of Wisdom…

”Real life situations do not come labeled with the needed virtues or strengths attached. There is thus the problem of relevance.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 42: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-42-d655472883c1) Ep. 43 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis —Wisdom and Virtue [59:04] https://youtu.be/EUcFqb-DxOA Let’s discuss the work…

”The way you frame yourself—the way you identify with your processing—has a huge impact on your problem-solving ability, your proclivity for self-deception, and your need for cognition. Rationality is an existential thing, it is not just an informational processing thing.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep…

“Rationality is ultimately an existential issue, not just a theoretical, inferential, logical issue.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 40: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-40-8284da916bc) Ep. 41 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — What is Rationality? [56:46] https://youtu.be/IZRqZX5JJqM Stanovich and West (2000) respond to Cohen’s arguments like this: if…

“Wisdom is not about what you know. Wisdom has to do with how you know it.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 39: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-39-85fec7325be7) Ep. 40— Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Wisdom and Rationality [55:25] https://youtu.be/udlkps-81JM A central feature of wisdom is the systematic seeing…

“We need to do something like what religion used to do. We need a comprehensive set of psychotechnologies that are set within communities and practices that allow for the comprehensive transformations of consciousness, cognition, character, and culture, in a way that is analogous to religion.” (In case you missed it…

“Your body is a bioeconomy that enacts logistical norms of efficiency and resiliency that constrain your cognition so that it continually evolves its fittedness to the world.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 37: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-36-2b9840db9436) Ep. 38 — Awakening from the Meaning Crisis — Agape and…

“I’m trying to get a balance between respecting where we really are and what our situation really is, and respecting all of the tremendous heritage and legacy that has been given to us.” (In case you missed it: Summary & Notes for Ep. 36: https://markmulvey.medium.com/awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-ep-36-2b9840db9436) Ep. 37 — Awakening from…