Human Action, Metaphor, and Money with John Vervaeke (WiM473)

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4.8 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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John Vervaeke joins me for a conversation about how action connects the mind and reality, the importance of relevance realization, why we use abstraction, why metaphors are so pervasive, and how money is a metaphor for the language of human action. John Vervaeke, Ph.D. is an award-winning professor of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto.

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0:00.0	It just wants you.
0:01.0	Yeah.
0:02.0	It's like, because there's something about the human mind that is fundamental from that time.
0:06.7	Your embodiment is that which actually makes the world possible to you and you possible to the world.
0:13.2	Your actions speak louder than your words, right?
0:15.2	Well, that's why we have the phrase indeed.
0:17.2	Indeed, yes.
0:18.2	Notice the performative contradiction.
0:20.2	The only real level is the bottom quantum level.
0:23.8	Really?
0:24.4	The place at which you're doing the science isn't real?
0:27.8	If action is close to God and God is love,
0:29.9	then what is the relation between love and action?
0:32.5	Is love like the ultimate end in this dichotomy of means end?
0:37.0	Well, yes.
0:38.7	Let's play with this.
0:41.2	That's foundational.
0:42.6	That's where I'm crucial.
0:44.3	You know, and it goes towards something like the truth, the good and the beautiful, and how the one is behind them.
0:49.4	And this is the notion that was inherited, as I understand it, into Christianity as God.
0:53.3	Yes, yes, yes.
0:54.4	So this is like the metaphysical basis of all being.
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