The Meaning Code | Psychotechnology versus Beauty: Which is the Best Pathway to Meaning? @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Kyle McNease joins me to discuss the nature of attention and intention, the usefulness or destructiveness of psychotechnologies, and the meaning of worship. Notes follow links.
Kyle's first conversation with Paul VanderKlay:
youtu.be/TjzlMhI7Q2U
Kyle's second conversation with Paul VanderKlay:
youtu.be/cgDkSxGOZBc
Andrew Huberman video on sugar and our brains:
youtube.com/watch?v=VAEzZeaV5zM&t=933s
@ minutes 15:30 - 21:00 - visual neurons and fasting
@38:00 - parallel pathways for sugar cravings is analogous to seeking beauty (the taste of sweetness) because we need meaning, (the nutritive effect of sharpening our minds)
@45:00 - dopamine pathways warnings
Psychotechnologies, whether in psychedelics or manipulation of music or experience: if you get it just right, you can "experience the divine". Or can you?
God so loved the world, He gave...
When we lift Him up, He draws us to Himself.
You can learn to train your attention. Vertical communication works itself out horizontally.
Genesis 11, the confounding of the language. They were all thinking the same way, saying the same things.
In the Book of Acts, the many languages are used to give one message.
We seek to be too easily consoled. Iris Murdoch.
Love is full of honey. Love is also full of venom.
Your intentions will follow your attention.
Orienting yourself to the highest good and carrying that out with intentions.
Loss takes you beyond language.
The loss of a loved one leaves us feeling, "That branch to this world has been cut off for me in this life."
Pain equivalence. Cultural resonance.
Irvin Yalom: yalom.com
Installations of hope.
Rogerian oriented therapists hold in positive regard and look for congruence. Isn't that what Christians should be doing?
We like to isolate, mechanize and amplify the payoff.
You are a poem in progress. You started from one egg cell and one sperm, and now you are searching for meaning by sitting in front of this device which required manifold brain power and creativity to produce and learning from it in a way that is completely unique to you, YOU who are computationally irreducible.
Your unfolding process has to be played out, all the way.
Sehnsucht, the ache that can hit you so hard, that you long to be consummated with the one who loves you.
No man comes to the Father unless the Spirit draws him.
Meaning is given as a gift. Psychotechnologies are a shortcut that deny the need for sacrifice and the learning that can take place in the irreducible complexities of sacrifice.
Kyle McNease joins me to discuss the nature of attention and intention, the usefulness or destructiveness of psychotechnologies, and the meaning of worship. Notes follow links.
Kyle's first conversation with Paul VanderKlay:
youtu.be/TjzlMhI7Q2U
Kyle's second conversation with Paul VanderKlay:
youtu.be/cgDkSxGOZBc
Andrew Huberman video on sugar and our brains:
youtube.com/watch?v=VAEzZeaV5zM&t=933s
@ minutes 15:30 - 21:00 - visual neurons and fasting
@38:00 - parallel pathways for sugar cravings is analogous to seeking beauty (the taste of sweetness) because we need meaning, (the nutritive effect of sharpening our minds)
@45:00 - dopamine pathways warnings
Psychotechnologies, whether in psychedelics or manipulation of music or experience: if you get it just right, you can "experience the divine". Or can you?
God so loved the world, He gave...
When we lift Him up, He draws us to Himself.
You can learn to train your attention. Vertical communication works itself out horizontally.
Genesis 11, the confounding of the language. They were all thinking the same way, saying the same things.
In the Book of Acts, the many languages are used to give one message.
We seek to be too easily consoled. Iris Murdoch.
Love is full of honey. Love is also full of venom.
Your intentions will follow your attention.
Orienting yourself to the highest good and carrying that out with intentions.
Loss takes you beyond language.
The loss of a loved one leaves us feeling, "That branch to this world has been cut off for me in this life."
Pain equivalence. Cultural resonance.
Irvin Yalom: yalom.com
Installations of hope.
Rogerian oriented therapists hold in positive regard and look for congruence. Isn't that what Christians should be doing?
We like to isolate, mechanize and amplify the payoff.
You are a poem in progress. You started from one egg cell and one sperm, and now you are searching for meaning by sitting in front of this device which required manifold brain power and creativity to produce and learning from it in a way that is completely unique to you, YOU who are computationally irreducible.
Your unfolding process has to be played out, all the way.
Sehnsucht, the ache that can hit you so hard, that you long to be consummated with the one who loves you.
No man comes to the Father unless the Spirit draws him.
Meaning is given as a gift. Psychotechnologies are a shortcut that deny the need for sacrifice and the learning that can take place in the irreducible complexities of sacrifice.
