February 16th, 2022
- watching Awakening from the Meaning Crisis by John Vervaeke
- huh, interesting, "wisdom" indeed declined then resurging
- > 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
- (ep29)
- Propositional (rules) <== Procedural (skills) <== Perspectival (situational awareness / prioritization of information) <== Participatory (agent-arena relationship)
