WiM051 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 4 | Psychotechnologies and Distributed Cognition

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 Technology vs. Psychotechnology 00:07:00 Digital Technology Blurs the Distinction 00:08:22 Accelerating the Proliferation of Psychotechnologies 00:10:21 Literacy and the Flynn Effect 00:12:32 Psychotechnology: A Gateway into Distributed Cognition 00:15:10 Distributed Cognition Inherent to the Free Market 00:16:39 The Printing Press Drives the Protestant Reformation 00:18:23 Literacy and Coinage Enable Standardization 00:20:44 Psychotechnologies, Protocols, and Cognitive Prosthetics 00:22:32 The Weakness of Monocultures and Centralization 00:24:33 Cognitive Flux Between Resiliency and Efficiency 00:26:08 Debt and Equity; Space and Time 00:27:45 The Difference Between Risk and Uncertainty 00:30:24 Agent and Arena: The Co-Determination of Identity 00:33:59 The Extent of Teleology in Reality 00:35:55 The Deep Continuity Hypothesis 00:38:28 Spinoza and Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality 00:41:51 Whitehead’s Bifurcation of Nature 00:43:27 Buddhist and Taoist Perspectives 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/