约翰·弗尔弗克教授与吉姆展开五部分系列的第四次对话，深入探讨了他热门YouTube系列“从意义危机中觉醒”中的观点。他们讨论了尼采作为意义危机的预言家、寻找意义的政治化、重塑宗教、基督教的深层功能、意义培养、纽厄尔和西蒙的错误、本质主义启发式、组合爆炸、无免费午餐定理、相关实现作为通用智能的引擎及其在宗教中的作用、世俗奇迹、'我'与'me'、超主体性与流动、神圣感、元意义系统的重要性、符号的功能与危险等。

📚 约翰·弗尔弗克教授是加拿大多伦多大学心理学系的副教授，自1994年起在该校任教，专注于思维与推理、认知发展、高级认知过程等领域。他强调洞察力问题解决、认知的动态本质、智慧、理智、正念等议题，并领导认知科学项目，关注4E认知和意识模型。

🧠 弗尔弗克教授是“意识与智慧研究实验室”的负责人，曾获得多项教学奖项。他的研究涉及相关实现、通用智能、正念、流动、隐喻和智慧，著有《西方文化中的僵尸：21世纪的危机》，旨在通过心理学和认知科学解决西方社会的意义危机。

🌟 在系列对话中，弗尔弗克教授和吉姆探讨了意义危机的多个方面，包括尼采的预言、宗教的现代化、基督教的深层功能、意义培养的重要性以及相关实现作为通用智能驱动力等。这些讨论旨在揭示如何在现代社会中寻找和培养意义。

🔍 对话还涉及了纽厄尔和西蒙的错误、本质主义启发式、组合爆炸等认知科学概念，以及无免费午餐定理在理解智能和认知过程中的应用。弗尔弗克教授提出，理解这些概念对于克服意义危机至关重要。

🏛️ 弗尔弗克教授强调，元意义系统的重要性、符号的功能与危险，以及如何在世俗世界中体验奇迹和神圣感，这些都是现代人在寻求意义时需要考虑的关键要素。

John Vervaeke joins Jim for the fourth of a five-part series examining the ideas put forward in Vervaeke’s popular YouTube series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis...John Vervaeke joins Jim for the fourth of a five-part series examining the ideas put forward in Vervaeke’s popular YouTube series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. They discuss Nietzsche as a prophet of the meaning crisis, the politicization of the quest for meaning, recreating religion, the deep functionality of Christianity, meaning cultivation, Newell & Simon's error, the essentialism heuristic, combinatorial explosions, the no-free-lunch theorem, relevance realization as the engine of general intelligence & its role in religio, secular wonder, "I" & "me," transjectivity & flow, the sense of sacredness, the importance of meta-meaning systems, the function & dangers of symbols, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS EP143 - John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis "Relevance Realization and the Emerging Framework in Cognitive Science," John Vervaeke, Timothy Lillicrap, Blake Richards Nelson Goodman (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Awakening from the Meaning Crisis EP33 - The Spirituality of RR: Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness "A Secular Wonder," Paulo Costa (paywalled)John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor, in the teaching stream. He has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an emphasis on intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the Psychology of wisdom. He is the director of the Cognitive Science program where he also teaches courses on the introduction to Cognitive Science, and the Cognitive Science of consciousness wherein he emphasizes 4E (embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended) models of cognition and consciousness. In addition, he teaches a course in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program on Buddhism and Cognitive Science.He is the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory.  He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards including the 2001 Students' Administrative Council and Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities, and the 2012 Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, flow, metaphor, and wisdom. He is first author of the book Zombies in Western Culture:  A 21st Century Crisis, which integrates Psychology and Cognitive Science to address the meaning crisis in Western society. He is the author and presenter of the YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.