WiM054 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 5 | A Psychotechnological Theory of Money

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 The Mind as a Map of the Universe 00:05:29 The Recurrent Patterns in Nature 00:06:58 “Agency All The Way Down” 00:11:28 Serving What’s True, Good, and Beautiful 00:12:19 Synchronicity: The Acausal Principle 00:16:44 The Flow State: An Optimization of Adaptivity 00:17:52 Circumambulation 00:23:18 A Causes B; B Values Precondition A 00:24:45 Emergence and Emanation: Matter and Principles 00:27:31 Possibility and Actuality are Co-Determining 00:29:46 Homemaking vs. House-Building 00:33:37 Material Engagement Theory 00:34:54 Software and Hardware: Multiple Realizability 00:37:05 Human and Tool Reciprocity; The Stroop Effect 00:41:17 Mimesis, Self-Reflection, and Mindfulness 00:42:57 Distributed Cognition and Captaining the Ship 00:43:33 Social Institutions: Psychotechnologies Externalized? 00:46:06 Price Signals and Mead’s “Generalized Other” 00:50:45 The Generalizability and Discrimination Tradeoff 00:53:02 Does the Corruption of Money Corrupt Humanity? 00:59:22 The Social Utility of Religion and Institutions 01:03:10 Money as the Base Layer Protocol for Human Action 01:05:47 Central Banking Twists Distributed Cognition 01:07:25 Hyperbolic Discounting, Time Preference, and Consumerism 01:09:36 Central Banking Causes Capital Destruction and Politicization 01:13:22 Psychotechnological Disruption of Social Institutions 01:15:16 Politics as the Ethics of Distributed Cognition 01:18:04 Politics as Imposable Opinion 01:21:37 Bitcoin Moves Markets Away from the Threat of Force 01:27:41 Bitcoin: The Incorruptible Game of Money 01:29:59 “Parable of the Winemaker”: A Corruption of Money and Morality 01:36:04 Exploring the Languages of Value and Cognition 01:38:13 “Words are the Coinage of Thought” 01:41:12 Industrial Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery 01:45:55 Corruption of Money and the Meaning Crisis 01:55:39 Humans are “Natural-Born Cyborgs” 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/3CFcOmg 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/