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Previously… — recap #2
A brief summary and recollection of the second half — posts 14-26 — of my Mirror of the Self series.
Apr 28, 2023
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26 • The Mirror of the Self
In this episode we are concluding the Mirror of the Self series with a look back at where we started — Can we now make sense of Vervaeke’s The Sacred…
Apr 21, 2023
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26 • The Mirror of the Self
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25 • Sacredness and the sacred
What does it mean to experience sacredness? What makes something sacred? And does it have to be rooted in something supernatural?
Apr 14, 2023
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Stefan Lesser
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25 • Sacredness and the sacred
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24 • Opening the Eye to the Storm
Our capacity for framing breaks in confrontation with the mystery of our ultimate insignificance. Fascinated and horrified we remember that we are…
Apr 7, 2023
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24 • Opening the Eye to the Storm
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23 • The mystery of wonder and awe
What is phenomenologically mysterious isn’t necessarily also inexplicable. Differentiating between propositional and perspectival knowing, we can…
Mar 31, 2023
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23 • The mystery of wonder and awe
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22 • Fundamental framing and human spirituality
All we make sense of and we make sense with — concepts, categories, beliefs, ego, truth, goodness, beauty — is grounded in something nameless, without…
Mar 24, 2023
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22 • Fundamental framing and human spirituality
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21 • Metaphor
Bridges between concepts balance similarities and differences and connect abstract ideas with our intuition for embodied interaction — to help us make…
Mar 10, 2023
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20 • Flow and intuition
The flow state and our ability for implicit learning are a powerful combination to enhance our cognition — and to hone in on what really matters in the…
Mar 3, 2023
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19 • Here- and Now-ness
Our consciousness performs incredible work to present us with what we find salient in the present moment. Can we get a grasp on what consciousness does…
Feb 24, 2023
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18 • Opponent processing
A continuous trade-off between selection for efficiency and variation for resiliency enable our capacity for growth. Processes that appear to work…
Feb 17, 2023
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17 • The essence of design
What do evolution, design, and consciousness have in common?
Feb 10, 2023
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16 • Dynamical systems
Turning our view from the structural aspects of cognition to its procedural nature, we discover surprising connections to the act of designing things.
Feb 3, 2023
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