Vervaeke
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AGI, Hope, and the Human Future 1: What Is Human Flourishing?
[This is a transcription of the talk I gave at St. James Cathedral on 2/8/24. I’ll be posting the Lectures 2 and 3 in the next two weeks.] Before we dig into the topic tonight, I’d like to frame it by identifying two critical issues. Both have a lot to do with our current social
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Genealogy Part 12B: Propositional Tyranny in the West
The following post is a mainly a background piece to provide context for the first conversation between the Greek Orthodox Bishop Maximus and the cognitive scientist John Vervaeke. This is also a contribution to my ongoing Genealogoy Series which has two primary objectives. First, to establish that the metaphysical imaginary that developed in the West
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Genealogy Update
Several factors have stalled my continuing my Genealogy of Our Current Insanity project, but it's something I've always planned to return to. I've mentioned the cognitive scientist John Vervaeke in several of the earlier posts here, and I just came across this video in which he interviews the Greek Orthodox Bishop Maximus. This starts out
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Genealogy Part 8: Plato–Habitus as Heuristic
Whether the goal was to convert, to console, to cure, or to exhort the audience, the point was always and above all not to communicate to them some ready-made knowledge but to form them. In other words, the goal was to learn a type of know-how; to develop a habitus, or new capacity to judge
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Genealogy Part 6: Vervaeke’s “Awakening” Series v. My “Genealogy” Series
Plato lived at a time when the inner crisis of the traditional Greek polis and the religion intimately bound up with it had become evident, and there seems to be no reason to deny that this had a profound effect on his decision to abandon the public arena to cultivate the wisdom necessary to build
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Genealogy Part 5: Salience Landscapes v. Salience Bubbles
I don't see myself as doing anything particularly original, but I do see myself as part of a larger effort to get things rebalanced. When I talk about the "Living Real", that's real for me, but I am no prodigy in the scope of my experience of it. It's real enough for me that it
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Genealogy Part 4A: Of Salience Landscapes and Metaphysical Imaginaries
I had been struggling about how to present what I want to say about Western Axiality in a way that might make some sense when I came across this lecture series by the Canadian cognitive scientist John Vervaeke entitled "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis". (His Lecture 10, which is relevant for Posts 4A and 4B