WiM048 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 3 | Money as a (Psycho)technology

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis." Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUEST John’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john John’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke John’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY PODCAST Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1 RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:05 NYDIG 00:01:23 How Gold Led to Fiat Currency 00:06:00 Fiat Currency and Addiction 00:12:01 Defining Psychotechnology 00:15:22 Psychotechnology, Intelligence, and Identity 00:17:36 Money as a Psychotechnology 00:22:20 Empowerment and Identification Processes 00:24:27 Modal Confusion (Having vs. Being) 00:30:49 The Wisdom of Money 00:34:52 Central Bank Psychotechnological Manipulation 00:39:00 Property and The Tragedy of the Commons 00:43:33 The Procedural Knowledge of Nature 00:45:50 Introduction to Metaphysics 00:52:42 The “Transjectivity” of Relevance 00:54:36 The Intelligibility of Reality 00:58:06 Being: “An Inexhaustible Fount of Intelligibility” 01:01:33 Aristotle’s Conformity Theory of Knowing 01:05:57 The Principles of “Knowing Thyself” 01:08:40 Plato’s Cave 01:10:06 Defining Exaptation 01:13:42 Metaphors as Fossils of Language 01:16:27 More About John’s Work… SOCIAL Breedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=en All My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​ WRITTEN WORK Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/ Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE Bitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7 Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22 Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22 Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedlove Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528 The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSES Worldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/ Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217 Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0j IBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/ Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/