The Brain is a Reducing Valve | Seeing Clearly Episode 6

This is the Worst Thing Humanity Does | Seeing Clearly Episode 7

Factory farming is humanity’s greatest sin. In this episode I speak with Itsi Weinstock, an animal welfare advocate at Senterra Funders. We talk about what’s really going on in factory farming, why it matters, and what you can do to help. 2:14 — Moral realism 4:41 — Itsi’s work 6:20 — Factory farming 12:07 — Value lock in from AGI 13:09 — How feasible is fighting economic forces? 14:18 — Legal challenges 15:14 — Moral progress 18:15 — The Christian argument for animal welfare 21:25 — Empathy isn’t what matters 22:57 — Strongest arguments against animal welfare 25:32 — What you can do to help 30:48 — Pascal Mugging by insects 33:32 — Recent wins for animal welfare 35:40 — Moonshots 39:05 — Working with the machine instead of against 40:58 — In 50 years, what went right/wrong? 43:29 — Call to action Donate: https://www.farmkind.giving/ Calculate cost to offset your diet: https://www.farmkind.giving/compassion-calculator [https://www.farmkind.giving/compassion-calculator] Want to help with your time or money? Get in contact with Itsi directly itsi (at) senterrafunders.org [itsi@senterrafunders.org] Socials Substack (long form philosophy + memes): https://substack.com/@cxgonzalez [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUVWNHZQMXBuRWVnQ3ozMW5BWm83TFZmMFBmd3xBQ3Jtc0tteWhkQ3BmM0ZVR1RaNFNfUG1uSkFJN0x6ZmhlcHFrMlhNUmM4M3RQaVlFQjRWSDd1M1hnS2FtekRpN1BmUTVla3BTVE9nMUF3OURmOURaTy11N3JKVUJQNVpONFZOb3IzcjBmbUppVEN6dmNzckJaSQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2F%40cxgonzalez&v=WX8ZRbvN2N8]X: https://x.com/cxgonzalez/ [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVFwYkdVNC0xUlNCNFRMZWxMWU4yamJtYkhrZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttaVBQX3lFOWdEMGZfOWRQOFlWZEE1UWduc3czcEltXzNTRWh2UzdTQXRMOEhKNXV3RndLbW9hZ3FwQzB2dG5BMDk3bzBoSVEza1hCSzZjSEZiSUNLNlctZko2SFZlVzU1cWlaWlVnLWdYU2lfenNlYw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fcxgonzalez%2F&v=WX8ZRbvN2N8] Instagram (short form philosophy): https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez/TikTok (short form philosophy): https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe [https://cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

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]