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/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 The Mind as a Map of the Universe00:05:29 The Recurrent Patterns in Nature00:06:58 “Agency All The Way Down”00:11:28 Serving What’s True, Good, and Beautiful00:12:19 Synchronicity: The Acausal Principle00:16:44 The Flow State: An Optimization of Adaptivity00:17:52 Circumambulation00:23:18 A Causes B; B Values Precondition A00:24:45 Emergence and Emanation: Matter and Principles00:27:31 Possibility and Actuality are Co-Determining00:29:46 Homemaking vs. House-Building00:33:37 Material Engagement Theory00:34:54 Software and Hardware: Multiple Realizability00:37:05 Human and Tool Reciprocity; The Stroop Effect00:41:17 Mimesis, Self-Reflection, and Mindfulness00:42:57 Distributed Cognition and Captaining the Ship00:43:33 Social Institutions: Psychotechnologies Externalized?00:46:06 Price Signals and Mead’s “Generalized Other”00:50:45 The Generalizability and Discrimination Tradeoff00:53:02 Does the Corruption of Money Corrupt Humanity?00:59:22 The Social Utility of Religion and Institutions01:03:10 Money as the Base Layer Protocol for Human Action01:05:47 Central Banking Twists Distributed Cognition01:07:25 Hyperbolic Discounting, Time Preference, and Consumerism01:09:36 Central Banking Causes Capital Destruction and Politicization01:13:22 Psychotechnological Disruption of Social Institutions01:15:16 Politics as the Ethics of Distributed Cognition01:18:04 Politics as Imposable Opinion01:21:37 Bitcoin Moves Markets Away from the Threat of Force01:27:41 Bitcoin: The Incorruptible Game of Money01:29:59 “Parable of the Winemaker”: A Corruption of Money and Morality01:36:04 Exploring the Languages of Value and Cognition01:38:13 “Words are the Coinage of Thought”01:41:12 Industrial Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery01:45:55 Corruption of Money and the Meaning Crisis01:55:39 Humans are “Natural-Born Cyborgs”SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass 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-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC 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/