Feeling the meaning of life

By Yves Sauve

Dr. Sauvé puts forward that the lack of sensory awareness of the cellular activity that generates predictive mental models creates a void, and becomes a threat itself. Where do our thoughts come from,... more

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April 14, 2023 Part 9: Concluding Remarks
Sometime I smile because I am happy, other times I am happy because I smile.
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27min
April 14, 2023 Part 8: Making Sense in our Changing Environment
The oldest fossil records of Homo sapiens where found in Jebel
Irhoud, Moroco; they date 300 thousand years. In only the last iota of its
existence as distinct species – starting 3.5 thousand years ago, with the
Mesopotamian civilization – humans changed their physical and social
environments. The most drastic transformations correspond to the dawning of the
industrial revolution, 250 years ago, culminating to the ubiquitous use of the Internet,
social media and smartphones over the past 20 years. The outcome is that certain
of the then adaptive traits have become recently rapidly maladaptive. In the
previous part, we just touched upon the hypothesis that wining an argument
might have been more important than using logical explanations based on hard
facts. Here, I would like to expand on how the maladaptation of our senses in
the world we are altering, is affecting us.
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40min
April 11, 2023 Part 7: Ignorance and Convenience
“Nothing is more terrible than to
see ignorance in action”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you
think education is expensive, try ignorance”. Derek
Bok

“We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It
is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable”. Alexander Solzhenitzyn
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1h 1min
April 10, 2023 Part 6: Feeling the Meaning of Life
At various instances in this podcast,
I mentioned, "breathe". My rationale was that paying attention to
your breath connects you directly to your senses, allowing your thoughts to
live their own life, accepting that thoughts are not entities, recognising that
they captured your attention away from your breath and patiently reconnecting
to the sensation of your breath, again and again, a thousand times. In this
manner you develop a new relationship with your thoughts, you let them be, you
acknowledge rumination without reacting, you are not intimidated by your
thoughts, no matter how rebarbative they might be. In the fourth part, I spent
time establishing that thoughts are incidental to the evolution of interneurons
that build predictive mental models.
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32min
April 06, 2023 Part 5: The Meaning of Life
You ask,
what is the meaning of life? You do so because you can. Your inclination and
ability to ask this question are incidental to the evolution of predictive
mental models. These models emulate and predict the specific physical aspects of
reality that have determined survival and passage of genetic information from
and between species over 3.8 billion of years.

The fact
that you can ask this question is an offshoot of your brain's ability to model and
predict a reality without requiring sensory input or motor output. Your brain
can now ruminate freely and endlessly. The urge we have to ask, "what is
the meaning of life", is linked with our nature of being threat detectors.
We have evolved because we detect threats and respond to them, all species do.
The lack of sensory awareness to the neuronal activity that generates predictive
mental models, creates a void, and becomes a threat in itself. Where are these
endless thoughts coming from?
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1h 32min
April 04, 2023 Part 4: Our Brain Generates the Reality we Experience
“When we look at a rock what we are
seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.”
Bertrand Russell
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1h 11min
April 03, 2023 Part 3: Between Sensors and Effectors
Between
sensors and effectors, the in-between becomes sense, trying to make sense,
compelled to make sense. Let go, breathe, and come back to your senses.
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37min
March 31, 2023 Part 2: Evolution Of The Senses (continued)
We are now at 1 billion years ago, unicellular algae thrive,
forming complex structures, some of which will fossilize as multicellular and
morphologically differentiated macrofossils.
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34min
March 30, 2023 Part 2: Evolution Of The Senses
“Nothing in Biology Makes Any Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.” Theodosius Dobzhansky
According to Hoffman and Singh (2012), evolution “shapes perceptual systems to guide fitter behaviour, not to estimate truth”. They state
that vision “rather favours fitness of the organism with the external world”.
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1h 4min
March 28, 2023 Part 1: Vision (continued)
Continuation and end of episode 1 on vision.
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1h 1min

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The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.