50-episode YouTube lecture series by cognitive scientist John Vervaeke (University of Toronto, 2019), tracing the meaning crisis from Socratic Greece through Neoplatonism, Christianity, Descartes, and Romanticism to the present, proposing a 4E cognitive science of participatory knowing as a contemporary response.
Comprehensive genealogy of Western meaning-making and its collapse; integrates cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and contemplative practice into a proposed framework for addressing endemic modern meaninglessness via relevance realization.
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