John Vervaeke: Can Science Untangle the World-Knot of Consciousness? Relevance Realization & Meaning

John Vervaeke, Ph.D. is an award-winning Professor at the University of Toronto in the departments of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Buddhist Psychology. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department. He is the director of the Cognitive Science program, and the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory. He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards, including the 2001 Students’ Administrative Council and Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities, and the 2012 Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, flow, metaphor, and wisdom. He is the first author of the book Zombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century crisis, which integrates Psychology and Cognitive Science to address the meaning crisis in Western society. He is the author and presenter of the YouTube series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:45 - Nature, Function & Meta Problem of Consciousness
2:55 - Key aspects of the Mind-Body Problem
7:04 - Consciousness as a higher order recursive relevance realization
11:47 - Ontonormativity & higher states of consciousness
15:54 - Moral philosophy of mind
19:36 - Psychedelics & altered states of consciousness
25:37 - Introspection in relation to insight & inference
28:48 - Phenomenology & 4E CogSci (& John's 2 more "E"s)
35:13 - The Salience & Significance Landscape
42:30 - Higher states of consciousness & its impact on individual's lived experiences
49:40 - John's upcoming book with Gregg Henriques (Untangling The World-Knot of Consciousness)
53:40 - Addressing Absurdity with Zen Neoplatonic Contemplation (Albert Camus & Thomas Nagel)
1:02:00 - John's relationship with Zen Neoplatonism
1:05:24 - Transcendental experiences & ontological grounding
1:09:38 - John's views on the "isms": Dualism, Idealism, Illusionism, Panpsychism, etc.
1:22:00 - The global collaborative approach to consciousness research occuring
1:27:45 - The future of consciousness research
1:31:03 - Moral and ethical implications of altering states of consciousness
1:35:09 - John's recommended reading
1:39:19 - John's personal story, transcended practices, & search for wisdom
1:46:30 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis & key takeaways
1:54:21 - Final thoughts
2:00:09 - Conclusion

EPISODE LINKS:
John's Website: https://johnvervaeke.com
John's Twitter:   / vervaeke_john  
John's Channel:    / @johnvervaeke  
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis:    • Awakening from the Meaning Crisis  
After Socrates:    • After Socrates  
Voices with Vervaeke:    • Voices with Vervaeke  
Untangling the World-Knot:    • Untangling the World Knot of Consciou...  
Michael Levin:    • Michael Levin: What is Synthbiosis? D...  
Mark Solms:    • Mark Solms: How Do Dreams Relate To C...  
Stephen Grossberg:    • Stephen Grossberg: A Unified Theory o...  

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