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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #277 · August 8, 2022 · 2h15m
Deeper Yet Into The Weeds | Pageau & Vervaeke | EP 277
Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke, and Jonathan Pageau explore the meaning crisis, the relationship between cognitive science and religious symbolism, and how relevance realization connects to the deepest structures of human experience.
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Vervaeke argues that the modern meaning crisis is not caused by the loss of religious belief per se but by the loss of the participatory knowing, perspectival knowing, and procedural knowing that religious practices cultivated. We lost the practices before we lost the beliefs.
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Relevance realization is the cognitive process that determines what matters before you consciously decide what matters
Vervaeke explains relevance realization: the brain's pre-conscious process of selecting what is relevant from the infinite information available. This process is the foundation of intelligence, attention, and meaning — and it operates before conscious deliberation.Was this useful?