Generous praise but is anything different for you having listened? I ask that sincerely because many times I listen to what are impressive sounding talks but am left with nothing substantial.
@@paulrankin8578 did you listen to this talk? I thought his diagnosis of the problem was spot on. And knowing what the problem is is already halfway to solving it. The solutions to the problems he’s addressing requires you to make the effort in your own life to solve them, no one else can do it for you, and there’s no easy way out, incase that’s what you’re looking for.
@@paulrankin8578, I come away from some conversations with a similar feeling to yours here. But this one introduced me to some concepts and philosophers' works that were absent from my education. And even more significant, Vervaeke's approach to framing various concepts might be new to many listeners, and could prompt some to consider old problems and questions from a new perspective.
Merry Christmas to you, too! or, if you want to be politically correct like that smoke-show of a host, "adequate non-denominational season that identifies as Winter to you!"
*"happy non-denominational winter festival"* is the most sterile greeting I've ever heard. In the West we celebrate Christmas. Now, British Christians will be a minority by 2066 or earlier, but until then; it's Merry Christmas.
Vervaeke sometimes *activates God mode* with his explanations, he's essentially a better Cognitive Scientist than most single-discipline Scientists in the field, as a result of incorporating plenty of Liberal Arts topics and observations.
John, your wisdom and your teaching skill inspire me. I am a Naturopathic Physician. I find myself wondering if you worked with a person who has MS, how much their MS would improve under your guidance and instruction. I believe the patient would improve greatly. I see great overlap between what you do and what I do and, more importantly, between how you do what you do and how I do what I do. I admire and appreciate you, John.
"It is not pleasure," I think the distinction between eudaimonic and hedonistic pleasure is useful here. Because flow is pleasurable, but it is deeper than the shallow pleasure of hedonism. Rock climbing is eudaimonically pleasurable because it involves virtues such as courage.
Wonderful conversation again! Thank you. Only thing I completely disagree with: AI is not artificial intelligence but, as Iain McGilchrist points out, artificial information processing. It is no threat to any aspect of our lives, unless we believe it is more intelligent than ourselves, and we fail to apply our full mental, psychological, social, emotional and spiritual capacities, then our anxieties would be warranted. Otherwise, it is literally just a tool. To fully, consciously, and appreciatively reclaim our lives, attention, relationships, knowledge, wisdom and connection to the sacred, there is absolutely nothing to fear at all.
Heavenly Father, only you know the burdens I face please bless me and my children this Christmas. As a single mom it can be hard to have everything on your shoulders. Especially because both of my sons are autistic. It’s difficult to raise children alone but despite the challenges I face I keep faith in you Lord. As I struggle to pay rent and as I struggle to buy groceries for my children. Jesus deliver me from my anxieties, and my troubles. Give me strength. Since suffering a heart attack two years ago and my on going battle with lupus I’m overwhelmed. Help me to find strength when I am weak, And hope when I am afraid. I will keep faith no matter what I face. 😢
I can see why Jordan Peterson picks John Vervake's mind-brain for insights to pursue meaning. Wish I was more competent myself. Great to listen to and hope I really comprehend his thinking.
From my own research and observations, so far I'd say around 90% of conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Almost everything is not what it seems. I didn't take the jab either by the way because I was told it was on the way. Alan Watt, David Icke and Alex Jones were warning us about it as far back as 2009.
I simply love how John can dispel an urban myth, still understand the hidden meaning inside the questioner's mind and deliver a thoughtful, rational and meaningful answer that yields significance to many, not only who questioned it. Effortlesly doing it; That's John. :) Love it.
Wait a minute… “MORE than the amount of atomic particles in the Universe”? How can that be the case if the Universe is INFINITE? Is this just rhetorical hyperbole?
Thanks for this content, for a minute I took for granted thst its free, its on tap any time i want, much in keeping woth John's points about everything we do, our learning and our mind, is done in communion with others and because of others contributions. It astounds me how much I forget that I am a recipient of the efforts of others and therefore connected to them. Constantly overcoming the feeling that I am sepearate and disconnected. My journey is helped by this kind of content, and the ideas of Vervaeke and his work which is fantastic. Flo (think thats her name) is also brilliant in her role, its clear she understands all the ideas too. Great work everyone. Looking forward to more and hope also to attend an event!
Dr. Vervaeke, I must say, is an excellent relevance realizer; he makes relevant points regarding wisdom, meaning, and the sacred that are much needed in this existence.
Vervaeke needs to clarify his use of "irrational". There's so much negatively implied in that term. The opposite of rational is not irrational. In fact, irrationality is a key factor in scie tific discoveries and breakthroughs not reasoned logic.
I'm afraid this is a rhetorical question, but How do I get involved in an event like this? This sort of conversation is so different, so distant from my everyday interactions with people, which seem so banal, shallow and deluded. It seems that most people (not trying to exclude myself) have biases that they are either unaware of, or unwilling to examine. When I seem to get close to something like this, I feel that most people began to get anxious, angry or simply bewildered.
Oh dear I just answered Mr Vervaeke's question 11:51 "What do you want to exist even if you are not here & what are you doing to help it". And my answers were a) my descendents b) the english people c) European civilisation. I think I might have to become an ethno-nationalist
His last name suggest his ancestors came from Flanders. The historian Jacques Pauwels is another super Canadian academic that came from our humble, little plot of land. 🙂
@27:00 the speaker conflates Vervaeke's thesis with a different one. Vervaeke doesn't accept the notion that we're a post-rational age and that since the enlightenment we've fallen and become irrational and emotional -- Vervaeke posits that enlightenment's version of rationality (as 'intelligence') is the problem. He's not part of the 'postmodernism is destroying our intellectual traditions!' groupthink at all
Rationality, caring for the truth. Rationality and intelligence are not the same thing. Sounds like Wokeism Faking both. Woke is not a true religion, it is an intelligible but irrational cult.
The agnostic attempt here to describe meaning and purpose really amounts to very little, as it allows almost anything to be validated under its roof, even the Hamas atrocities committed against innocent Jews on Oct 7th. For those perpetrators, their actions were full of meaning and purpose. It seems to me that a society built on a specific understanding of God and the universe and God’s redemptive action within that universe has everything to lose if they then completely ditch that belief. All manner of delusions will fill the vacuum, including pseudo-scientific ones.
As an Atheist raised sort of Catholic, the fact that ppl are kind of proving Protestant ritual practice to be adaptive nowadays, is weirdly fine with me. Because, sounds like they pretty much never believed in most of our literal Catholic pseudo pagan shit anyway.
@@bertiebassat5545 Super Consciousness is good. Beyond the Occult as well. There are many I think that give the reader a better grasp of the phenomenology of the world and what informs it.
@@gnupf Thanks, Ive never read Super Consciousness, will pick it up. I have Beyond the Occult, which I found rather fascinating, though I was never sure of its Validity.
It has taken me a while but I'm understanding Vervake better. He understands our minds and how they actually work. Love the Horror of it, way beyond angst . Wisdom is hard earned.
Here's a ChatGPT summary: - The speaker discusses the struggle between rational and spiritual aspects during the festive season. - A conversation with psychology professor John Voveki is mentioned, covering topics like rituals, artificial intelligence, and the meaning of life. - Professor Voveki's RU-vid series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" is mentioned, which is 50 hours long and broken into one-hour segments. - The speaker and Voveki discuss the Western world's meaning crisis, including issues of purpose, self-actualization, and identity. - Voveki explains that intelligent adaptivity can lead to susceptibility to self-deception and self-destructive behavior. - He suggests that overcoming self-deception requires a complex system of practices, which he refers to as an "ecology of practices." - The historical loss of wisdom cultivation frameworks, typically provided by religion, is discussed as a contributing factor to the meaning crisis. - Voveki points out that our culture lacks guidance on where to seek wisdom, leading to a loss of a "sacred canopy" or worldview. - The conversation touches on the role of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on humanity's future. - Voveki argues that AI is currently highly intelligent but also highly irrational, lacking concern for truth or wisdom. - The speaker and Voveki discuss the possibility of creating wise agents and the challenges associated with raising AI in an age of absurdity. - Voveki emphasizes the importance of understanding the functionality of meaning in life and the adaptive importance of cultivating wisdom. - The speaker and Voveki explore the concept of meaning, including the dimensions of purpose, coherence, significance, and mattering. - Voveki explains that the experience of realness is intertwined with intelligibility and the realization of meaning in life. - The conversation covers the potential for a scientific theory of meaning and the distinction between knowledge and wisdom. - Voveki highlights the need for a new ecology of practices and communities to address the meaning crisis. - Main message: The Western world is experiencing a meaning crisis, and understanding the functionality of meaning and the cultivation of wisdom is crucial for addressing it. The rise of artificial intelligence poses new challenges and opportunities for humanity's future, and a reevaluation of our approach to wisdom and rationality is necessary.
15:00 point about material wealth's effects plateauing off repeatedly takes me back to John Calhoun's Universe 25 mouse utopia experiments of the 1970s. "The beautiful ones" and the mib violence and dysfunctional sex life, (not to mention the hair dye) all seems so familiar. If you are not familiar will Calhoun's work, here's an inteoductory video; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7CXj0AGuh4c.htmlsi=zfyJsTqysXohkGdI
Dr. Karl Menninger, a renowned American Psychiatrist, believed that religion was the psychiatrist for the world. Here religion seems to mean that frame reference that provided meaning for people.
35:00 "fixation on the outcome, and complete disregard for the process" has enabled people to support Wokism. Superficial adherence to procedural issues (diversity and inclusion) satisfies the superficial reflex of liberalism to censorship! Liberalism is inculcated into Western culture by the Christian sense of the holiness of self sacrifice. But the sly insertion of Equity (of outcome) in place of Equality (of opportunity) allows total disregard of the integrity of the process followed trying to achieve "Justice" as defined by liberalism. Diversity and Inclusion haven't "really" been attended to, instead they have just being paid lip service to. Cain's sacrifice was ever tainted in this way. He took life from the living and expected reward for self denial of the flesh of his sacrificed. I've always looked at the way people keep animals and derive pleasure from them during the act of abuse. Treating animals as trophies and tools without giving the animal respect of its true nature. This is the big moral problem human's have with eating animals. They see the numinous and defile it to feed the body - where is the honour in that? Same with Woke, there is no honour and there is a lot of anger because they are unconsciously cognoscent of the unsatisfying nature of revenge and performing to a formula, not a sense of "flow".
Gee, no wonder Jesus said ... "He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:2-3
...except some conspiracy theories have proven themselves to be conspiracy fact ... + we shouldn't discount a 'bad feeling about the world' as inherently irrational - there's plenty of observably bad things that give pause to consider the trajectory of the world and the probable causes / forces at play
Prof. John, u R almost ready for prime time, Netflix, and the RU-vid channels that do these topical short video episodes. In SUCH channels as After Skool, The Well, etc. THIS is, thus far, your most concise, clear, easily comprehended (comprehensible?) Without losing the plot, meaning, and message... Except for a few words, WHICH BTW, try'n bracket those $50 Words with a quick brief definition in just a few words WHEN you're on a roll. Almost there, AND it's exciting... Just a few more runs at IT, getting it down to at least 10th if not 8th or 6th grade reading/listening levels. BOTH in content AND possibilities. I'd love to help, AND I've already signed up to volunteer at the VF. Cheers 🥂. Peace 🕊️. Luck 🍀. Gaia ♾️✨🪄☯️🎇🚀🌴💥.
I once read that the Sanskrit word for God originally meant "The changes caused by performing certain rituals upon the experience of individuals and communities" The idea that a supernatural anthropomorphic being brought about these changes came later.
Found this a very interesting talk, on boxing day were of to cull and dress a sheep for the family, in a way I hope there will be a certain amount of ritual to the event, whereas my children will learn from the experience. Great talk, great hosts.
About music, it is an interesting 'imaginal' distinction how english, italian and french "plays" music whlie the other romance languages "touch" music.
There is a "haptic" quality to reality. Even our sight in the ancient world was a form of "touching". The term "Imaginal" by Corbin is being misused here. Imaginal is a "place" between sensory world and world of ideas---better to use imagination.
I recommend his book on AI. He's deeply committed to the problem, and I think his proposal to guide AI towards becoming like sages is very insightful and important.
AI is trained on human forms, in service of human prompts. Its an extension of human ability. I see no scenario where AI will not have a human director. The technocrats dont have these metaphysical qualities and neither can the AI they produce
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This fellow is a psychologist from Toronto. It makes me wonder if he is a member of the professional society there persecuting Jordan Peterson? Enquiring minds such as myself would like to know.
I believe Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist, not a psychologist. Don't know if he's a member of that organization, though I do know that they are former colleagues and I'm quite sure they've done work together and are friends. I'm not aware of any public statement from Vervaeke re Petersons persecution, but from everything I know about John, I'd be seriously surprised if he's in any way taking part in that despicable show trial.
@@scottwatrous7649 you're welcome. Yeah, me neither. The whole thing is ridiculous I think. But I guess it serves as a good example of how moral objections from a 'controversial' person are dealt with in those places..
He was a colleague of Peterson. No: this persecution you speak of is a nonsensical conspiracy just like the rest of them. John and his colleagues give Jordan credit for a lot of what he says.
