It's already been two years since John Vervaeke completed his 50 episodes 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis'. I revisited one lecture and realized that it's much better than when I originally watched it!
My original motivation for watching his lectures was to see if I can gain more insight on human cognition in the hopes of understanding general intelligence. So I skipped most of his lectures until episode 26.
The previous episodes are a historical account of how humans evolved their thinking of how they would navigate this world. I tend to not care for historical accounts because they spend time on dead ends.
I've now come to realize the importance of the historical account. Humans tend to formulate their understanding based on the 'pyscho' technologies invented in the past. Thus to understand the various theories of cognition, one cannot avoid understanding their original framing.
This approach of studying the history of ideas appears to be similar to how philosophers work out their theories. I'm not a fan of philosophy, furthermore not all ideas, that philosophers consider important, makes their way to the collective consciousness of society.
Culture affects how we frame our models of reality. But culture evolves from the revolutionary ideas of individuals who have looked at the world differently from the rest. It is how ideas have been combined that gives us the tapestry of how modern humans frame the world.
But let's be careful here. How humans frame reality, is not the same as how human cognition works. The former are habits that we've been accustomed to. By explicitly knowing these habits, we learn to see what we are not seeing.
General intelligence is difficult because we have built layers of psycho-technologies that lead us to a wrong path of understanding. Our decision-making is based on our intuition. An intuition that is the result of multiple layers of habits. Habits that come from history.
Thus, to understand the flaws in our intuition, we have to understand the habits from where it originates.
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