John Vervaeke 和 Jim 共同探讨了 Vervaeke 在其热门 YouTube 系列“从意义危机中觉醒”中提出的观点。本集重点介绍了核心概念，包括意义、非还原科学、意义危机的症状、注意力、萨满教、心理技术、仪式、严肃的玩乐、参与式与视角式认知、心流状态、正念、青铜器时代崩溃与向轴心时代的过渡、双世界神话、信仰作为爱的承诺、浪漫喜剧的危害、时机与游戏 B 的关系、苏格拉底革命、苏格拉底的“认识你自己”的训诫、说谎与胡说八道、可用性偏差、显著性与转变等等。

🤔 **意义与非还原科学:** Vervaeke 认为，意义危机源于我们对科学的还原论式理解，导致我们无法理解生命和意识的复杂性。他提出了非还原科学的理念，主张从整体和相互联系的角度来理解世界，并强调意识、意义和价值观在科学研究中的重要性。

🧠 **意义危机的症状:** Vervaeke 指出了现代社会中普遍存在的意义危机症状，例如焦虑、抑郁、孤独、物质主义和对技术的依赖。他认为这些症状反映了我们对生活的目的和意义的迷失。

🧘 **正念与心流状态:** Vervaeke 强调了正念和心流状态在克服意义危机中的重要性。正念可以帮助我们专注于当下，并培养对生活的欣赏和感激。心流状态是指完全投入某项活动，并体验到快乐和满足感的体验。

🧭 **苏格拉底革命与认识你自己:** Vervaeke 认为，苏格拉底革命是人类历史上的一个重要转折点，它强调了自我反思和认识自我的重要性。他鼓励我们通过自我探索和反省来寻找生活的意义。

🎭 **浪漫喜剧的危害:** Vervaeke 指出，浪漫喜剧通常会向我们传递一种虚假的爱情观，导致我们对现实生活中的人际关系产生不切实际的期望。他认为，我们需要对爱情和人际关系有更深刻的理解，才能建立真正有意义的关系。

🚀 **时机与游戏 B:** Vervaeke 认为，我们正处于一个关键的转折点，需要重新思考我们的价值观和目标。他提出了“游戏 B”的概念，旨在创造一个更可持续、更公平和更美好的未来。

🎯 **信仰作为爱的承诺:** Vervaeke 认为，信仰并不一定是指宗教信仰，而是指对某种理念或价值观的承诺和奉献。他认为，信仰可以为我们的生活提供方向和意义。

🎭 **双世界神话与轴心时代:** Vervaeke 认为，双世界神话是人类文化中普遍存在的现象，它将世界分为物质世界和精神世界。轴心时代是人类历史上的一个重要时期，它见证了对单一世界观的转变，并催生了各种宗教和哲学思想。

🎮 **严肃的玩乐与仪式:** Vervaeke 认为，严肃的玩乐和仪式可以帮助我们连接到更深层的意义。玩乐可以帮助我们放松身心，并体验到快乐和满足感。仪式可以帮助我们建立共同体，并赋予我们的生活意义。

👀 **注意力与可用性偏差:** Vervaeke 认为，我们生活在一个充斥着信息的世界，这导致我们注意力分散，并容易受到可用性偏差的影响。可用性偏差是指我们更容易被容易获取的信息所影响，而忽略了其他重要信息。

🧠 **参与式与视角式认知:** Vervaeke 认为，我们应该从参与式的角度来理解世界，而不是仅仅从视角式的角度。参与式认知是指我们通过参与和体验来学习和理解世界。视角式认知是指我们仅仅从观察者的角度来理解世界。

🎭 **说谎与胡说八道:** Vervaeke 认为，说谎和胡说八道是现代社会中普遍存在的现象。他认为，我们需要学会识别和抵制说谎和胡说八道，才能建立一个更诚实和更可信的社会。

John Vervaeke joins Jim for the first 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 first of a five-part series examining the ideas put forward in Vervaeke's popular YouTube series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. In this episode they focus on defining core concepts, including meaning, non-reductive science, symptoms of the meaning crisis, attention, shamanism, psychotechnology, ritual, serious play, participatory vs perspectival knowing, the flow state, mindfulness, the Bronze Age collapse & transition into the Axial Age, two-worlds mythologies, faith as loving commitment, the perniciousness of romantic comedies, kairos & its relation to Game B, the Socratic revolution, Socrates's imprecation to "know thyself," lying & bullshit, availability bias, salience vs transformation, and much more. Episode Transcript John Vervaeke on Twitter Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis, by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, & Filip Miscevic Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi JRS EP27 - Jamie Wheal on Flow & the Future of Culture JRS EP123 - Jamie Wheal on Recapturing the Rapture Sam Harris's Waking Up app  On Bullshit, by Harry FrankfurtJohn 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.