A.I., Meaning Crisis, and Memory | Dr. John Vervaeke and Bishop Maximus | Q&A | Part 1 

During the latter half of May, Saint Photios Orthodox Theological Seminary was honored to host Dr. John Vervaeke for a weeklong visit.
Dr. Vervaeke is an Associate Professor who has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an emphasis on intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the Psychology of wisdom.
He has become well known in recent years thanks to his participating in discussions and interviews with psychologist and author Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, entrepreneur and podcaster Tim Ferriss, and icon carver and public speaker Jonathan Pageau.
Dr. Vervaeke was invited to the Seminary by one of its Visiting Instructors, Bishop Maximus of Pelagonia, who has previously been featured in videos for Dr. Vervaeke's own RU-vid channel.
In this first in a series of videos filmed over the course of Dr. Vervaeke's visit to the Seminary, Bishop Maximus and Dr. Vervaeke answer questions regarding artificial intelligence, the meaning crisis, and memory.
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Dr. Vervaeke Bio: Dr. John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor, in the teaching stream. He has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an emphasis on intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the Psychology of wisdom. He is the director of the Cognitive Science program where he also teaches courses on the introduction to Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science of consciousness wherein he emphasizes 4E (embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended) models of cognition and consciousness . In addition, he taught a course in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program on Buddhism and Cognitive Science for fifteen years. He is the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory. He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards including the 2001 Students' Administrative Council and Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities, and the 2012 Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, flow, metaphor, and wisdom. He is first author of the book Zombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century crisis which integrates Psychology and Cognitive Science to address the meaning crisis in Western society. He is the author and presenter of the RU-vid series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, and the series After Socrates.
Contents of this video
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Artificial Intelligence
19:40 - The Problem of Cognitive Bias
33:25 - Meaning Crisis
56:41 - Improving Memory
1:10:04 - Coming Up