Dec 29, 2022
Tom Morgan returns for his third
appearance on Infinite Loops with Jim, Infinite Loops’ own Ed
William and special guest Brett Andersen, an evolutionary
psychology PhD student at the University of New Mexico.
We discuss the implications of the ideas presented in Brett’s
fantastic essay ‘Intimations of a New Worldview’, whether the rise
of anti-heroes is a challenge to Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, the
influence of conscious vs unconscious design, and much more.
Important Links:
- Intimations of a New
Worldview
- Brett’s Substack
-
Brett’s
Twitter
- Tom’s blog
-
Tom’s Twitter
-
Awakening from the Meaning
Crisis
Show
Notes:
- Objective vs subjective
morality
- Complexity as a
precondition
- Biological
complexification
- Complexification and social
selection
- Relevance
realisation
- Jordan Peterson’s ‘Maps of
Meaning’ and the metamyth
- The optimal path and the process
of creation
- The cognitive purpose of
supernatural beliefs
- Mapping a response to the meaning
crisis
- Quantum entanglement and
consciousness
- Practical implications of Brett’s
theory
- Cultural
evolution
- Conscious vs unconscious
design
- There is an underlying flow of
things
- Breaking Bad and the Hero’s
Journey
- Slack vs tension
- MUCH more!
Books
Mentioned:
- Meaning in Life and Why It
Matters; by Susan Wolf
- The Romance of Reality: How the
Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic
Complexity; by Bobby Azarian
- The Life of the Cosmos; by Lee
Smolin
- Evolution's Arrow: the direction
of evolution and the future of humanity; by John
Stewart
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human
Destiny; by Robert Wright
- The Mating Mind: How Sexual
Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature; by Geoffrey
Miller
- Maps of Meaning: The Architecture
of Belief; by Jordan Peterson
- Zombies in Western Culture: A
Twenty-First Century Crisis; by John Vervaeke
- Principia Mathematica; by Alfred
North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
- The Master and his Emissary: The
Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World; by Iain
McGilchrist
- The WEIRDest People in the World:
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly
Prosperous; by
- The Genius of the Beast: A
Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism; by Howard Bloom
- Life Finds A Way: What Evolution
Teaches Us About Creativity; by Andreas Wagner
- Tao Te Ching; by Laozing