John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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0:00 – Introduction
1:10 – Meaning
21:24 – Consciousness
30:24 – Relevance realization
41:47 – Wisdom
49:01 – Truth
53:46 – Reality
1:06:06 – Meaning crisis
1:29:35 – Religion
1:37:25 – Nontheism
1:52:34 – Distributed cognition
2:10:45 – Flow
2:30:42 – Psychedelics
2:39:10 – Marxism and Nazism
2:51:15 – Evil
2:55:27 – Powerful ideas
3:02:17 – Advice for young people
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