#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at
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the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (07:03)
- Meaning (27:17) - Consciousness (36:17) - Relevance realization
(47:40) - Wisdom (54:54) - Truth (59:38) - Reality (1:11:59) -
Meaning crisis (1:35:27) - Religion (1:43:17) - Nontheism (1:58:26)
- Distributed cognition (2:16:37) - Flow (2:36:35) - Psychedelics
(2:45:03) - Marxism and Nazism (2:57:08) - Evil (3:01:19) -
Powerful ideas (3:08:10) - Advice for young people