360 - John Vervaeke - The Cognitive Science of Ritual
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Coming up
00:51 - Intro music
01:17 - Introduction to Cognitive Science
04:16 - Ritual and an advent of the sacred
06:18 - Meaningful ritual
08:23 - Why work against ritual?
14:07 - Replace religious with civic
15:47 - Hermeneutics of suspicion
18:24 - Progressive rituals
23:23 - Transformation
27:51 - Marking identity
36:17 - Ritual as space
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| 0:00.0 | A proper part of being rational is the imperative to be more rational. |
| 0:05.0 | So rationality is an inherently aspirational entity, which means at the heart of rationality is aspiration and transformative experience, which requires ritual, because ritual is imaginable, serious way. |
| 0:22.4 | It's just funny because just with that, you completely undermine the entire, the entire project |
| 0:28.4 | of rationalism. |
| 0:29.8 | That's true. |
| 0:30.5 | I'd never thought about it, that because you want to be reasonable, reason becomes aspirational |
| 0:36.0 | and therefore has to be, you have to kind of imagine and project |
| 0:39.6 | yourself into that space before you enter into it because why would you desire it if you |
| 0:44.7 | couldn't imagine yourself in a future state where you have to move towards that future |
| 0:50.3 | state through imagination. This is Jonathan Peugeot. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to the symbolic world. Hello, everyone. I am back with John Vervaki. |
| 1:20.2 | You know, we just put out a video with himself and with Jordan Hall and myself having a discussion. |
| 1:26.7 | But today we are going to talk about John's upcoming class |
| 1:31.1 | on ritual and cognitive science. |
| 1:33.8 | I am extremely excited about this. |
| 1:35.9 | You know, I can't wait to see. |
| 1:37.2 | And it's actually fitting in some of the work |
| 1:39.3 | that John is doing all around for the university, |
| 1:41.8 | but then also other projects. |
| 1:42.9 | So John, yeah, I mean, let's start and tell us a little bit how this connects to your work in general. |
| 1:50.0 | Thanks, Jonathan. It's great to be here. |
| 1:53.0 | So in general, I've been doing a lot of work on the cognitive science of religion. |
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