Seeing Clearly

Watch UNRAVELING THE DREAM: Jake’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@FrameProblemsJake’s X: https://x.com/jakeorthwein1:08 — Origin of the film4:00 — Bayesian brain, predictive processing, free energy principle13:53 — Direct experience vs. symbolic thinking25:46 — Buddhism and identity30:38 — Emptiness vs metaphysics39:17 — Is suffering all that matters? Meaning and Buddhist utilitarianism1:01:38 — Valence realism vs. emptiness. What could make moral facts true?1:11:57 — Jung and predictive processing1:20:54 — Moving from rationalism to post-rationalism1:32:07 — The grammar of wisdom traditions1:40:17 — Fractal hierarchies Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

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. physics27:05 — What does God want?29:15 — Darwinism applied to super organism31:06 — Fractal reality, hyper minds 36:40 — Moral intuition and psychological/spiritual development48:56 — The ladder of purpose, utility function coupling through love1:05:27 — 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 hard1:36:46 — Purpose Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode we talk with Moral Law Within 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 religion5:39 — What is truth?8:15 — Morality without God10:39 — Obligation11:50 — Reasons20:05 — Morality grounded in consciousness (Valence realism)27:33 — Morality without God cont.30:00 — Kantian ethics36:44 — Why universalize?42:18 — Kantian Contractualism43:10 — 4 categories of moral theories46:36 — Logic as bedrock47:25 — Is everything intuition?50:44 — What is philosophy?52:53 — Are there objective moral facts?56:29 — The Kantian argument for veganism1:02:53 — Applying to grad school Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

Leona is a consciousness researcher, a practitioner of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra and the Cofounder of The House of Hyperstition (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-doing35:36 — Chakras43:00 — Translating and communicating woo concepts48:55 — Acting from your body, not your mind51:40 — When is conceptual thought useful?55:58 — Flow-maxxing as a meta-desire1:08:27 — Creating a golden age, distributed cognition1:14:45 — Preserving agency within a fractal super organism1:17:35 — Psychological development1:19:15 — What is Neo-Hermeticism? Why this podcast?1:30:08 — House of Hyperstition, social roles, healing1:41:25 — The Self (top-down vs. bottom up)1:47:10 — Good vs. bad egregores1:51:58 — What is God?2:00:27 — Divine coordination2:04:42 — Love is gravity2:06:52 — Virtue ethicsLeonaTwitter: https://x.com/dismaienHouse of Hyperstition: hyperstitio.usChristianTwitter: https://x.com/cxgonzalezSubstack: https://substack.com/@cxgonzalezTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalezInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez/Relevant linksVisualizing narratives: https://www.community-archive.orgNeo-Hermeticism: Meta-rationality: https://metarationality.com Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

1:24 — Live music3:33 — Predictive processing and normativity17:41 — Identity22:07 — Emotions as an error signal24:40 — Is/ought gap27:50 — Abstraction, conceptual scaffolding, pragmatism31:47 — Morphic field, civilizational development38:37 — Coordination as a coordination mechanism43:14 — The Kingdom of God, moral convergence45:06 — Superorganisms, coordination, and utility functions47:21 — Bioelectricity as cellular intuition, morphic field52:01 — Narratives, archetypes, the .story filetype57:01 — Astrology and The Cycles, personality types1:01:01 — Platonic Forms1:02:17 — tpot, Community ArchiveXiq’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-159900848Xiq (“Chic”):X: https://x.com/exgenesis/highlightsSubstack: https://substack.com/@xiqoCommunity Archive: https://www.community-archive.orgChristian Gonzalez:X: https://x.com/cxgonzalezInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalezTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalezYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@WorldviewUpdatesPodSpotify: Apple Podcasts: Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

Richard Bartlett (@RichDecibles) is a community organizer and Vibe Mechanic at Casa Tilo. In this episode we discuss rebuilding a high trust society, bottom-up coordination, super organisms, purpose, personal development, Casa Tilo and more.1:08 — Rebuilding a high trust society5:45 — Bottom-up coordination, village life7:56 — Microsolidarity as social physics10:00 — Taxonomy of superorganisms19:20 — Self-help is a scam21:06 — Social roles, groups as error correcting28:02 — The fractal self, IFS therapy37:37 — The goal is maturity40:22 — How to find meaningful work45:15 — Doing vs. Becoming48:58 — Casa Tilo1:00:55 — Do egregores/superorganisms strip agency?1:07:13 — Christianity and VervaekeRichX — https://x.com/RichDecibelsSubstack — https://substack.com/@richdecibelsInstagram — https://www.instagram.com/richarddbartlett/TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@rich_decibelsPersonal Website — https://richdecibels.comStay at Casa Tilo — https://www.eltilo.casaChristianX — https://x.com/cxgonzalezSubstack — https://substack.com/@cxgonzalezInstagram — https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalezTikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe