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01.09.2023 - By Dr. Jordan B. PetersonPlay

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Dr Jordan B Peterson and John Vervaeke discuss entropy reduction, incremental fact gathering, systems of complexity and the ultimate unity in the holy spirit.

John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto. His work constructs a bridge between science and spirituality in order to understand the experience of meaningfulness and the cultivation of wisdom so as to afford awakening from the meaning crisis.

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(0:00) Coming Up

(1:24) Intro

(5:00) Entropy reduction

(6:30) Friston, big picture cognitive science

(9:00) Surprise and micro narratives

(14:00) Domains of measurement

(16:15) The problem with pragmatism

(19:00) Incremental fact gathering

(21:25) Spiraling pathways

(24:38) Oneness, Piaget

(27:25) Graceful degradation

(31:30) Connectivity, network organization

(34:00) Genome aging and mutation

(36:00) Gist, mutual predictability

(38:00) Nihilism, false arguments

(41:20) Cartesian reality

(43:30) levels of abstraction, meta games

(46:45) Hierarchy of unity, internal dialogues

(48:30) When a system complexifies

(52:40) Overarching harmony,

(1:01:00) Zombie complex, nature and function

(1:03:00) The function of consciousness

(1:05:00) Insight, relevance realization

(1:07:00) Adverbial connections

(1:10:00) God, Hermes, the burning bush

(1:13:15) A multitude of goals

(1:15:00) Acts of integration, profound synthesis

(1:17:00) The ultimate unity as a spirit

(1:21:00) Pluripotential Chaos

(1:24:20) Pride and suffering

(1:27:00) Self deception, heuristics

(1:29:00) Cognitive evolution, static perfection

(1:33:00) Distributed insight, humility

(1:35:30) Zone of proximal development

(1:37:00) The ides of the culmination

(1:39:00) Generative being, logos

(1:40:44) After Socrates

(1:46:00) Conditions for relevancy

(1:47:30) Practices of socracy

(1:50:00) Profound emergence

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