So some quick refreshers on earlier concepts: Vervaeke thinks that humans are evolved, and that means lots and lots of ‘exaptation’, where something originally created for purpose A turns out to also be useful for purpose B, and develops to satisfy both purposes. The tongue is an example, of originally being useful for moving stuff around in the mouth (lots of animals have tongues that can do that) but then also being useful for speech, rather than creating a new speech organ from scratch (few animals that have tongues capable of speech, and this actually seems like the limiting factor in getting dogs to talk with us, for example).
But exaptation doesn’t just happen with body parts, it also happens cognitively. The thing that Vervaeke thinks the symbol is doing is giving us access to the ‘history’ of the thing, in a way that reminds me of UtEB and memory reconsolidation; rather than just going off the ‘current sense of justice’ or w/e the symbol of justice gives you a way to handle the parts of it and its justification all at once, making it easier to reflect on justice and change your mind about it / develop it in contact with more of your experience.
Anagoge is a sort of philosophical self-development / ascent towards the true/good.
Religio, is, uh, the parts of religion that relevance realization is related to? I’ll figure out a better explanation at some point.
So some quick refreshers on earlier concepts: Vervaeke thinks that humans are evolved, and that means lots and lots of ‘exaptation’, where something originally created for purpose A turns out to also be useful for purpose B, and develops to satisfy both purposes. The tongue is an example, of originally being useful for moving stuff around in the mouth (lots of animals have tongues that can do that) but then also being useful for speech, rather than creating a new speech organ from scratch (few animals that have tongues capable of speech, and this actually seems like the limiting factor in getting dogs to talk with us, for example).
But exaptation doesn’t just happen with body parts, it also happens cognitively. The thing that Vervaeke thinks the symbol is doing is giving us access to the ‘history’ of the thing, in a way that reminds me of UtEB and memory reconsolidation; rather than just going off the ‘current sense of justice’ or w/e the symbol of justice gives you a way to handle the parts of it and its justification all at once, making it easier to reflect on justice and change your mind about it / develop it in contact with more of your experience.
Anagoge is a sort of philosophical self-development / ascent towards the true/good.
Religio, is, uh, the parts of religion that relevance realization is related to? I’ll figure out a better explanation at some point.