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EP 268 Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Evolution of Meaning


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Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about the ideas in his new book, The Evolution of Meaning: A Universal Learning Process. They discuss Jim's love for the book, the thinking behind the title, future books in the series, why Brendan avoided the word "religion," the nature of meaning, dissipative systems, Shannon information vs semantic information, relations vs static objects, meaning as adaptive information, the meaning of value, Gregg Henriques's Unified Theory of Knowledge, the meaning of learning, why the world is full of bogus learning, whether complexity increases over time, information overload, John Vervaeke's relevance realization, wisdom, evolution as learning, the meaning & evolution of sacredness, and much more.
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The Evolution of Meaning: A Universal Learning Process, by Brendan Graham Dempsey
JRS EP 172 - Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism
JRS EP 176 - Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap
UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge, by Gregg Henriques
JRS EP 159 - Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality
JRS EP 143 - John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, researcher, organic farmer, and the director of Sky Meadow Institute, an organization dedicated to "promoting systems-based thinking about the things that matter most." He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in religious studies and classical civilizations from the University of Vermont and earned his master's from Yale University, where he studied religion and culture. He is the author of Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics and host of the Metamodern Spirituality Podcast. His primary interests include theorizing developments in culture after postmodernism, productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality, and developing sustainable systems for life to flourish. All of these lead through the paradigms of emergence and complexity, which inform all of his work.
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