Seeing Clearly

The Brain is a Reducing Valve | Seeing Clearly Episode 6

Watch UNRAVELING THE DREAM: Jake’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@FrameProblems [https://www.youtube.com/@FrameProblems] Jake’s X: https://x.com/jakeorthwein [https://x.com/jakeorthwein] 1:08 — Origin of the film 4:00 — Bayesian brain, predictive processing, free energy principle 13:53 — Direct experience vs. symbolic thinking 25:46 — Buddhism and identity 30:38 — Emptiness vs metaphysics 39:17 — Is suffering all that matters? Meaning and Buddhist utilitarianism 1:01:38 — Valence realism vs. emptiness. What could make moral facts true? 1:11:57 — Jung and predictive processing 1:20:54 — Moving from rationalism to post-rationalism 1:32:07 — The grammar of wisdom traditions 1:40:17 — Fractal hierarchies Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe [https://cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Has consciousness already been solved?

Dr. Ogi Ogas is a mathematical neuroscientist and, in his own words, a prophet. This is our conversation on God and consciousness. 1:44 — Who or what is God? 17:06 — Mind vs. matter, purpose vs. physics 27:05 — What does God want? 29:15 — Darwinism applied to super organism 31:06 — Fractal reality, hyper minds  36:40 — Moral intuition and psychological/spiritual development 48:56 — The ladder of purpose, utility function coupling through love 1:05:27 — The emergence of the first cities and the “I” 1:07:30 — What is consciousness? 1:16:49: — The hard problem of consciousness isn’t hard 1:36:46 — Purpose Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe [https://cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

[Podcast] Moral realism, Kantian ethics and veganism

In this episode we talk with Moral Law Within [https://open.substack.com/pub/morallawwithin] about God, secular morality, moral realism, reasons, intuitions, Kantian ethics, and more. Florence Bacus is a PhD student at Harvard studying Kantian ethics. 1:49 — God and religion 5:39 — What is truth? 8:15 — Morality without God 10:39 — Obligation 11:50 — Reasons 20:05 — Morality grounded in consciousness (Valence realism) 27:33 — Morality without God cont. 30:00 — Kantian ethics 36:44 — Why universalize? 42:18 — Kantian Contractualism 43:10 — 4 categories of moral theories 46:36 — Logic as bedrock 47:25 — Is everything intuition? 50:44 — What is philosophy? 52:53 — Are there objective moral facts? 56:29 — The Kantian argument for veganism 1:02:53 — Applying to grad school Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe [https://cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Embodiment, flow, creating a golden age, Neo-Hermeticism, God — Seeing Clearly episode 3

Leona is a consciousness researcher, a practitioner of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra and the Cofounder of The House of Hyperstition (hyperstitio.us [http://hyperstitio.us]). This was an enlivening conversation that only got better as the time flew by. We cover several fascinating topics earmarked below. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did participating in it. 1:06 — Embodied decision making, non-doing 35:36 — Chakras 43:00 — Translating and communicating woo concepts 48:55 — Acting from your body, not your mind 51:40 — When is conceptual thought useful? 55:58 — Flow-maxxing as a meta-desire 1:08:27 — Creating a golden age, distributed cognition 1:14:45 — Preserving agency within a fractal super organism 1:17:35 — Psychological development 1:19:15 — What is Neo-Hermeticism? Why this podcast? 1:30:08 — House of Hyperstition, social roles, healing 1:41:25 — The Self (top-down vs. bottom up) 1:47:10 — Good vs. bad egregores 1:51:58 — What is God? 2:00:27 — Divine coordination 2:04:42 — Love is gravity 2:06:52 — Virtue ethics Leona Twitter: https://x.com/dismaien [https://x.com/dismaien] House of Hyperstition: hyperstitio.us [http://hyperstitio.us] Christian Twitter: https://x.com/cxgonzalez [https://x.com/cxgonzalez] Substack: https://substack.com/@cxgonzalez [https://substack.com/@cxgonzalez] Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez [https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez/ [https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez/] Relevant links Visualizing narratives: https://www.community-archive.org Neo-Hermeticism: Meta-rationality: https://metarationality.com Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe [https://cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Predictive processing, morality, religion, tpot — Seeing Clearly episode 2

1:24 — Live music 3:33 — Predictive processing and normativity 17:41 — Identity 22:07 — Emotions as an error signal 24:40 — Is/ought gap 27:50 — Abstraction, conceptual scaffolding, pragmatism 31:47 — Morphic field, civilizational development 38:37 — Coordination as a coordination mechanism 43:14 — The Kingdom of God, moral convergence 45:06 — Superorganisms, coordination, and utility functions 47:21 — Bioelectricity as cellular intuition, morphic field 52:01 — Narratives, archetypes, the .story filetype 57:01 — Astrology and The Cycles, personality types 1:01:01 — Platonic Forms 1:02:17 — tpot, Community Archive Xiq’s made some generational twitter threads that you have to check out, I’m going to share some of my favorites here: Collective intelligence diagram: Translating spiritual concepts into computer science language: Predictive Processing and Jung: My substack post on Virtue, Archetypes, and the Narrative Self: https://substack.com/@cxgonzalez/p-159900848 [https://substack.com/@cxgonzalez/p-159900848] Xiq (“Chic”): X: https://x.com/exgenesis/highlights [https://x.com/exgenesis/highlights] Substack: https://substack.com/@xiqo [https://substack.com/@xiqo] Community Archive: https://www.community-archive.org Christian Gonzalez: X: https://x.com/cxgonzalez [https://x.com/cxgonzalez] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez [https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez] TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez [https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@WorldviewUpdatesPod [https://www.youtube.com/@WorldviewUpdatesPod] Spotify: Apple Podcasts: Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe [https://cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]