Christofer and writer Jake Orthwein speak about the mind and introspection in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss meditation, empiricism, suffering, the self, dzogchen vs. vipassana, non-duality, free will, perception, computation, logic, correspondence theory of truth, and other related topics.
Jake Orthwein is a writer and filmmaker based in Santa Monica, CA. He studied film and cognitive science at the University of Southern California and currently works as Director of Media for the Psychology of Technology Institute, an academic non-profit focused on improving research on the human-technology relationship. He is also a long term meditator.Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeOrthweinTimestamps: (1:12) - Jake's history with meditation(3:26) - Dzogchen (5:24) - Why is nonduality desirable? (8:30) - Noticing subjectivity (11:30) - Epistemology of nonduality(16:24) - 'The thinker' is another thought (19:36) - Self (22:46) - Shades of agency (27:15) - Creativity in involuntary feats of perception (35:56) - Perception as a computation (39:34) - The logical asymmetry of verification and falsification (41:26) - Jake's thoughts on CR (42:49) - David Deutsch's theory of truth
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