E60| NFTs & The Sacred, w/ Anderson Todd, Evan McMullen, Tyler Hollett, Tim Adalin

A dialogic adventure into the mysteries of mind, memetics, and NFTs, in consideration of what really matters.

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Show Notes

Read more about Anderson, Evan, and Tyler, and find their previous Voicecraft dialogues below.

Timestamps:
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00:00 Introductions, Sensocracy, Schmachtenberger and Harris on the JRE
12:40 Maintaining a sense of the sacred in conversation
17:00 The sacred, the weird, and the inadequacy of words
26:00 On bridging the scientific rational and the esoteric mystical
34:00 On the shamanic roots of the West and towards new institutions
44:00 The Bored Apes Yacht Club & NFTs in the context of pre-institutions
52:00 Dialectic on NFTs, value, and memetics
1:11:46 On siphoning resourcing from Game-A in the transition
1:20:45 Economics & NFTs
1:27:20 Drawing together threads in the context of response to the meta-crisis
1:34:30 On the benefits, promise and perils of technology
1:57:00 Dialectical turn towards grieving culture and the meaning of catafalque
2:07:20 Closing & aporia

Anderson Todd

Anderson is the Assistant Director of U of T’s Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Lab. He teaches in the Cognitive Science program and Interdisciplinary Courses on Jungian Theory program at the University of Toronto, on Consciousness and The Unconscious respectively. He also consults in private practice as a psychotherapist.

His YouTube channel, where he explores themes relating to Alchemy, Jung, Cog Sci, Consciousness, and more, can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Hrwd_CHQ78oBocLCVUp2g

Evan McMullen

For more on Evan’s work in relation to The Bridge, check out his series of presentations at on The Stoa: https://youtu.be/ss2_PIzl9ik?list=PLoZ5e3aD_LuTXCcoOXnqsMOe9E_kLK7v2

Tyler Hollett

Tyler is a father of two and researcher of whatever seems necessary to support the healthy formation of communities, online and offline. He has been instrumental in the development of several discord communities with members in the tens of thousands.