Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

October 18th, 2023

• Awakening from the Meaning Crisis ep30
  • #2tweet "the propositional depends on the procedural, which then depends on the perspectival, which is then grounded in the participatory"
    
    — John Vervaeke (ep30 of AFTMC)
    • • "the propositional depends on the procedural, which then depends on the perspectival, which is then grounded in the participatory"
        
        — John Vervaeke (ep30 of AFTMC)
        • quote my articulation of these four
  • "relevant events are like tuesday events"
  • "relevance ultimately has to be relevant TO an autopoietic system"
  • "food literally matters to me"
  • relevance realization can't be a theory of relevance detection

March 5th, 2023

• inspired by Awakening from the Meaning Crisis ep 13

January 17th, 2023

• this tweet connects with ~ep3 of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis talking about the judeochristian god as "the god of the open future"
  • twitter.com/gooddogthedog/status/1533104470074195968

January 15th, 2023

• Books/Scale by Geoffrey West has connections with ep6 of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
  • it highlights new, non-obvious enabling constraints & selective constraints that organisms exist within
  • a dynamical systems theory lays out an engine
    • a virtual governor
    • + a virtual generator
    • = a virtual engine

February 16th, 2022

• watching Awakening from the Meaning Crisis by John Vervaeke
  • Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction
    • huh, interesting, "wisdom" indeed declined then resurging
      • 
    • > wisdom is largely about realizing meaning in life
    • > ignorance is a lack of knowledge; foolishness is lack of wisdom
      • > the very machinery that makes you so intelligent makes you susceptible to foolishness
        • (seems related to brain hemispheres)
    • project, object, subject
      • all related to throwing
      • project = throw
      • object = something thrown against
      • subject = something thrown under
    • introspection developed in part through learning to pick up on others' mental states
    • exaptation
      • from biology
      • repurposing something from original purpose to another
      • evolutionary mechanism
        • "tongues did not evolve for speaking"
          • (if they did, all animals with tongues would be talking, which would be terrifying)
      • brain exaptations & repurposing
    • ~"the brain didn't change much between 160kya and 40kya"
      • how do we actually know this? there are no bones of the brain to leave fossils
      • maybe we know it didn't get *bigger*, but it could have developed new internal shapes
    • 4 knowings
      • procedural knowing
      • perspectival knowing
      • propositional knowing
      • participatory knowing
      • (ep29)
        • Propositional (rules) <== Procedural (skills) <== Perspectival (situational awareness / prioritization of information) <== Participatory (agent-arena relationship)

John Vervaeke

• first ~35 eps of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

• skimmed some of Michael "Valentine" Smith's notes on Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Podcast summaries

• 1:05:19 - 1:08:11 - Searching for the meaning of life is misguided. Awakening from the Meaning Crisis John Vervaeke