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Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke on why modern life produces a pervasive sense of meaninglessness, what ancient wisdom traditions got right about attention and transformation, and how we might address the meaning crisis.
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Highlights
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The meaning crisis is not a crisis of belief but a crisis of participatory knowing — we have lost the practices that connect us to reality
Vervaeke argues that the meaning crisis is not about losing religious belief. It is about losing participatory knowing: the embodied, transformative practices (meditation, contemplation, ritual) that make reality feel meaningful.•
Relevance realization is the cognitive machinery of meaning — and it operates below conscious awareness
Vervaeke introduces relevance realization: the brains pre-conscious process of deciding what matters and what does not. Meaning is not something you find — it is something your brain generates through relevance realization.Was this useful?