In this episode I speak with , an Australian psychologist and writer of the Mind & Mythos Substack. Dan’s work explores the intersection of psychology, mythology, and narrative, initially focusing on …
Mind And Mythos With Dan Ackerfeld
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Moments Of Awakening Survey
I’m running a quick survey on people’s earliest memories. If you’ve got a moment, I’d love your input:
More Than Allegory On Religious Myth
and join me to discuss More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth, and Belief by Bernardo Kastrup. We dive into Kastrup’s challenging philosophy of analytical idealism, which posits that reality is…
Mystery Factors Revisited
Stepping back from grand theories, this post revisits the mystery lexical factors. From word loadings, can you describe the general principle that holds a factor together? This exercise gets at the ul…
Notebooklm On The Eve Theory Of Consciousness
Using Google’s NotebookLM has been a game-changer for searching through mid-sized text databases. In my recent research on creation myths similar to Genesis, I uploaded the thirteen-part anthology The…
November Subscriber Post
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[Image: Visual content from original post]“My stomach hurts, I think I ate something funny.”
Previously on Vectors of MindIt’s been a busy couple of months. You guys are getting your money’s worth! (It’s free; there are no perks to paying.)
Other PodcastsI also got the chance to talk to and Steven Zuber IRL while I was in SF for the Love Symposium. I have the mic from the 15-30 minute mark.
Overview Of Articles To Date
Vectors of Mind has been around for two years now, and there’s quite a bit of content that builds on itself. Enjoy this 90 minute monologue where I describe each article chronologically, and give some…
Personality Around The World
Okay, let’s take a little reprieve from the sapience stuff. I actually had a bunch of psychometrics queued up before being pulled in by the clarion call of consciousness. It’s just so hard to look awa…
Primary Factor Of Personality Part
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[Image: Visual content from original post]Steampunk conscience (DALL·E)
What does your conscience have to do with psychosis and evolution? Why does psychometrics find that success in humans, a social species, is more dependent on book smarts than people smarts? Should personality models explain who we are or how we got here? And what does this all have to do with language? This series seeks to answer those questions.
Pygmy Eve Peeps God
Anthropologist Paul Schebesta’s 1936 work, Revisiting My Pygmy Hosts, offers a window into the creation myths and belief systems of the Efe pygmies of the Congo. Their explanation of the original sin …