- Jul 2023
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academic.oup.com academic.oup.com
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- Title
- Relevance Realization and the Emerging Framework in Cognitive Science
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- John Vervaeke
- Timothy P. Lillicrap
- Blake A. Richards
- Date
- Oct 27, 2009
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- Apr 2023
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ageoftransformation.org ageoftransformation.org
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We are facing a poverty crisis, a political crisis, crises of education and health, crises of culture and infrastructure. And within and encompassing all of these, we are facing a crisis of meaning, because in a world that feels like it’s crumbling around us, we are sometimes overwhelmed by feelings of emptiness and futility.Professor John Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist at the University of Toronto, calls this “the meaning crisis”. Our conventional sense-making concepts and categories are broken.
Meaning crisis
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- Jan 2023
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Nicola grateri has spent his career fighting the country's most powerful Mafia the indrangata
!- Title: Inside Italy's biggest mafia trial in decades!- !- Producer: BBC
-Nicola grateri has spent his career fighting the country's most powerful Mafia the indrangata
!- comment : violence - This is one form of violence in one part of the world which, through the drug trade spreads to the rest of the world - 60 billion Euros go to this Mafia gang for the drug trade across E. - the root problem however, is not being tackled, and that is the meaning crisis which drives consumption of these drugs - the polycrisis of humanity is supported by countless entangled and silo'ed crisis like this, affecting each other in invisible ways -
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- Jul 2022
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newhumanist.org.uk newhumanist.org.uk
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Since then, I’ve been one of a group of scholars developing a new academic field known as "ignorance studies". Seriously, the field does exist, even though people sometimes chuckle at the phrase.
This makes me think of a research paper that cognitive scientist John Vervaeke wrote on wisdom vs foolishness:
See the diagram on page 13
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