WiM042 - The Geoffrey Miller Series | Episode 4 | Instincts and Incentives

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 The Objectivity of Moral Principles?00:06:19 Justice is Born of Reason00:11:41 Utility of the Division of Labor00:16:25 Division of Labor: Enabling Higher Moral Aims00:20:15 Productivity is the Pursuit of Timelessness00:22:01 Absolute and Comparative Advantages00:24:32 The Antifragility of the Free Market00:25:27 Entrepreneurship Elevates Meaningful Work00:28:29 Discovering Moral Principles with Reason00:35:09 Acquiring of Property Justly00:41:21 Rivalrous vs. Non-rivalrous Goods00:45:02 “Intellectual Property Rights” Restrict Reason00:46:57 The Irrefutability of Individual Self-Ownership00:50:02 Violating Property is a Net-Negative for Humanity00:55:04 Stealing is the Path of Least Resistance00:56:52 Honest Money Harmonizes Prices and Value01:00:58 Acquisition and Expiration of Property01:05:40 Conflict Arbitration on the Free Market01:12:02 Ethics, Morals, and Proportionality of Retribution01:14:33 The Contradiction of State “Enforcement” of Private PropertySOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

2 Loka 20211h 19min

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 The Mind as a Map of the Universe00:05:29 The Recurrent Patterns in Nature00:06:58 “Agency All The Way Down”00:11:28 Serving What’s True, Good, and Beautiful00:12:19 Synchronicity: The Acausal Principle00:16:44 The Flow State: An Optimization of Adaptivity00:17:52 Circumambulation00:23:18 A Causes B; B Values Precondition A00:24:45 Emergence and Emanation: Matter and Principles00:27:31 Possibility and Actuality are Co-Determining00:29:46 Homemaking vs. House-Building00:33:37 Material Engagement Theory00:34:54 Software and Hardware: Multiple Realizability00:37:05 Human and Tool Reciprocity; The Stroop Effect00:41:17 Mimesis, Self-Reflection, and Mindfulness00:42:57 Distributed Cognition and Captaining the Ship00:43:33 Social Institutions: Psychotechnologies Externalized?00:46:06 Price Signals and Mead’s “Generalized Other”00:50:45 The Generalizability and Discrimination Tradeoff00:53:02 Does the Corruption of Money Corrupt Humanity?00:59:22 The Social Utility of Religion and Institutions01:03:10 Money as the Base Layer Protocol for Human Action01:05:47 Central Banking Twists Distributed Cognition01:07:25 Hyperbolic Discounting, Time Preference, and Consumerism01:09:36 Central Banking Causes Capital Destruction and Politicization01:13:22 Psychotechnological Disruption of Social Institutions01:15:16 Politics as the Ethics of Distributed Cognition01:18:04 Politics as Imposable Opinion01:21:37 Bitcoin Moves Markets Away from the Threat of Force01:27:41 Bitcoin: The Incorruptible Game of Money01:29:59 “Parable of the Winemaker”: A Corruption of Money and Morality01:36:04 Exploring the Languages of Value and Cognition01:38:13 “Words are the Coinage of Thought”01:41:12 Industrial Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery01:45:55 Corruption of Money and the Meaning Crisis01:55:39 Humans are “Natural-Born Cyborgs”SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

30 Syys 20211h 57min

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMichael's twitter: https://twitter.com/saylorMichael's company: https://www.microstrategy.com/enMichael's website: https://www.hope.com/CHANNELPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 Analog vs. Digital Monetary System00:03:21 Dematerializing Accountants and Auditors00:05:13 Dematerializing the Compliance Function00:07:46 Dematerializing Information Technology00:08:25 Dematerializing Human Resources00:10:15 Dematerializing Security and Facilities00:13:56 Bitcoin is Apex Property: Self-Security and Non-Locality00:16:09 The Game Theory of Stealing Bitcoin00:17:26 “Property that Encourages Peaceful Resolution”00:19:07 Physical Property Invites Violence00:22:13 The Game Theory of Bitcoin makes it Anti-Violence00:22:56 Bitcoin Dematerializes Bank and Government Functions00:24:36 Dematerializing Police and Military00:25:48 Bitcoin as a Multinational Money Network00:27:29 Settling Geopolitical Disputes Without War00:29:11 The Economic Crystallization of Consensus on Property00:32:33 Bitcoin as “The Spoils of Peace”00:34:08 The Proof of Work Model00:36:22 Bitcoin is a Microcosm of Capitalism00:39:20 Bitcoin as a First-Order Negative Feedback Loop00:40:53 Capitalism is Based on Nature00:42:46 Bitcoin Outcompetes Due to its Adaptivity00:45:06 Bitcoin: A Self-Correcting Adaptive Control System00:48:41 Nature is Thermodynamically Conservative, Fiat is Not00:52:16 “Bitcoin is Cybernetic Life” that Cannot be Caged00:55:24 Robert’s OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinco...Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

28 Syys 20211h 32min

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 xSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmgIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

24 Syys 202158min

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlYPODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 Technology vs. Psychotechnology00:07:00 Digital Technology Blurs the Distinction00:08:22 Accelerating the Proliferation of Psychotechnologies00:10:21 Literacy and the Flynn Effect00:12:32 Psychotechnology: A Gateway into Distributed Cognition00:15:10 Distributed Cognition Inherent to the Free Market00:16:39 The Printing Press Drives the Protestant Reformation00:18:23 Literacy and Coinage Enable Standardization00:20:44 Psychotechnologies, Protocols, and Cognitive Prosthetics00:22:32 The Weakness of Monocultures and Centralization00:24:33 Cognitive Flux Between Resiliency and Efficiency00:26:08 Debt and Equity; Space and Time00:27:45 The Difference Between Risk and Uncertainty00:30:24 Agent and Arena: The Co-Determination of Identity00:33:59 The Extent of Teleology in Reality00:35:55 The Deep Continuity Hypothesis00:38:28 Spinoza and Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality00:41:51 Whitehead’s Bifurcation of Nature00:43:27 Buddhist and Taoist PerspectivesSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

23 Syys 202146min

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMichael's twitter: https://twitter.com/saylorMichael's company: https://www.microstrategy.com/enMichael's website: https://www.hope.com/CHANNELPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 21M: A Base Layer Monetary Protocol00:05:21 The Bitcoin Application Layer Protocol00:08:20 Base and Application Layers are Complementary00:10:50 Acceleration of the Lightning Network00:12:31 Bitcoin Frees Us from Inflation00:13:47 Private Keys are the Strongest Property Right00:18:33 Bitcoin is Impairment-Resistant Property00:21:19 Theft-Proof Property: A Real Game-Changer00:24:21 “All Stress Accelerates the Adoption of New Technology”00:26:44 Bitcoin Mitigates Hypothecation00:29:08 Bitcoin Optimizes Authentication00:30:49 Bitcoin: Hyper-Transportable Capital00:35:05 “There is a Dance Between Counterparties”00:36:15 Bitcoin is the Most Distributable Money00:37:36 Bitcoin is the Most Divisible Money00:37:59 Bitcoin Fixes Spamming and Scamming00:44:26 Bitcoin Functions Across All Scales00:46:22 “Making Cyberspace Safe for 8 Billion People”00:48:09 Why Does Bitcoin Succeed in Theory?00:55:55 Different Ways to Own Bitcoin00:58:16 Bitcoin is a Shared, Immutable, and Correct Ledger01:00:25 The Speed at Which a Profound Idea can Spread01:08:36 Robert's OutroSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinco...Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

21 Syys 20211h 40min

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTMax’s twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMaxMax’s Website: https://towardsliberty.com/btcpay/apps/wxB4qDBjfaZNqn9vSidLnn4dGbV/pos PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 The Privatization of Protection Services00:05:44 Government: A Natural Monopoly?00:12:48 We Can Have Peace Without Bitcoin?00:16:15 The Mass Ignorance of Self-Evident Truths00:20:43 Freedom as Compared to Liberty00:25:40 Optionality as an Aspect of Freedom00:33:45 The Price: An Objective Appraisal of Value00:39:38 The Methodological Divide in Economics00:41:45 Differences Between Ethics and Morals00:46:41 Defining Human Reason00:50:44 Is Politics Reasonable?00:55:59 The Criminality of Politics00:58:20 The Universal Ethic: Do Not Steal01:00:57 The Reciprocity Between Man and ToolSOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

20 Syys 20211h 4min

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/GUESTJohn’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnJohn’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaekeJohn’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:OUTLINE00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:05 NYDIG00:01:23 How Gold Led to Fiat Currency00:06:00 Fiat Currency and Addiction00:12:01 Defining Psychotechnology00:15:22 Psychotechnology, Intelligence, and Identity00:17:36 Money as a Psychotechnology00:22:20 Empowerment and Identification Processes00:24:27 Modal Confusion (Having vs. Being)00:30:49 The Wisdom of Money00:34:52 Central Bank Psychotechnological Manipulation00:39:00 Property and The Tragedy of the Commons00:43:33 The Procedural Knowledge of Nature00:45:50 Introduction to Metaphysics00:52:42 The “Transjectivity” of Relevance00:54:36 The Intelligibility of Reality00:58:06 Being: “An Inexhaustible Fount of Intelligibility”01:01:33 Aristotle’s Conformity Theory of Knowing01:05:57 The Principles of “Knowing Thyself”01:08:40 Plato’s Cave01:10:06 Defining Exaptation01:13:42 Metaphors as Fossils of Language01:16:27 More About John’s Work…SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=trueRECOMMENDED BUSINESSESWorldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3h3lL0jIBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/

18 Syys 20211h 18min