本文是对Brendan Graham Dempsey所著《涌现主义：现代世界的复杂性宗教》一书的讨论，涉及意义危机、相互缩窄、前现代与现代、还原主义的兴起、复杂性与涌现的意义、科学创世叙事的神圣化、普里戈津的耗散系统理论、宇宙无尽复杂化的过程、意识的统一理论、智能生命在银河系仅进化一次的可能性、复杂化与上帝概念的联系、通过神话创作使非宗教宗教易于理解、欧米茄点、技术奇点的推动以及涌现主义伦理与实践等多方面内容。

📚 Dempsey的《涌现主义》旨在回应现代世界的意义危机，提出了一种新的宗教范式，强调复杂性和涌现作为宇宙的基本特征，试图填补科学与宗教之间的鸿沟。

🌌 文章探讨了前现代和现代的哲学差异，以及还原主义如何导致了意义的丧失。Dempsey提倡通过理解宇宙的复杂性和涌现过程来重新发现意义。

🔬 普里戈津的耗散系统理论和Bobby Azarian的统一现实理论被提及，以支持涌现主义的观点，即宇宙是一个不断复杂化的过程。

🤔 文章还讨论了意识与感知的区别，以及集成信息理论与约翰·塞尔的生物功能主义之间的辩论，探讨了意识的本质。

👽 Dempsey提出了智能生命在银河系可能只进化一次的观点，并将复杂化与上帝概念联系起来，提出了“非宗教的宗教”这一概念。

Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey about his book Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Metamodern World. They discuss the meaning crisis & its symptoms, reciprocal narrowing, the pre-modern & the modern, the emergence of reductionism, the meaning of complexity & emergence, sacralizing the scientific creation narrative, Prigogine's theory of dissipative systems, the universe as a process of endless complexification, marrying Bobby Azarian's Unifying Theory of Reality & Gregg Henriques's Unified Theory of Knowledge, consciousness vs sentience, Integrated Information Theory vs John Searle's biological functionalism, the odds that intelligent life evolved only once in our galaxy, tying complexification to the God concept, making the "religion that is not a religion" accessible through mythopoeia & storytelling, the Omega Point, whether approaching the Omega Point implies pushing for a techno-Singularity, Emergentist ethics & practices, and much more. Episode Transcript Emergentism: A Religion of Complexity for the Modern World, by Brendan Graham Dempsey "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis," by John Vervaeke - YouTube series JRS EP143 - John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex, by Harold Morowitz The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity, by Bobby Azarian JRS EP 159 - Bobby Azarian on the Romance of Reality JRS EP105 - Christof Koch on Consciousness JRS EP 167 - Bruce Damer on the Origins of Life JRS EP 171 - Bruce Damer Part 2: The Origins of Life – Implications JRS EP40 - Eric Smith on the Physics of Living SystemsBrendan Graham Dempsey is a writer whose work focuses on the meaning crisis and the nature of spirituality in metamodernity. He is the host of the Metamodern Spirituality podcast and the writer behind the six-volume (and counting) Metamodern Spirituality Series. He earned his BA in Religious Studies from the University of Vermont and his MA in Religion and the Arts from Yale University. He lives in Greensboro Bend, Vermont, where he runs the holistic retreat center Sky Meadow.