Seeing Clearly

Christian Gonzalez
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Exploring different philosophical frames for understanding what is and what we ought to do. Hosted by Christian Gonzalez. cxgonzalez.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Has consciousness already been solved?

    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. physics 27:05 — What does God want? 29:15 — Darwinism applied to super organism 31:06 — Fractal reality, hyper minds  36:40 — Moral intuition and psychological/spiritual development 48:56 — The ladder of purpose, utility function coupling through love 1:05:27 — 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 hard 1:36:46 — Purpose Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 41min

  2. 13 MAR

    [Podcast] Moral realism, Kantian ethics and veganism

    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 religion 5:39 — What is truth? 8:15 — Morality without God 10:39 — Obligation 11:50 — Reasons 20:05 — Morality grounded in consciousness (Valence realism) 27:33 — Morality without God cont. 30:00 — Kantian ethics 36:44 — Why universalize? 42:18 — Kantian Contractualism 43:10 — 4 categories of moral theories 46:36 — Logic as bedrock 47:25 — Is everything intuition? 50:44 — What is philosophy? 52:53 — Are there objective moral facts? 56:29 — The Kantian argument for veganism 1:02:53 — Applying to grad school Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 4min
  3. Embodiment, flow, creating a golden age, Neo-Hermeticism, God — Seeing Clearly episode 3

    10 FEB

    Embodiment, flow, creating a golden age, Neo-Hermeticism, God — Seeing Clearly episode 3

    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-doing 35:36 — Chakras 43:00 — Translating and communicating woo concepts 48:55 — Acting from your body, not your mind 51:40 — When is conceptual thought useful? 55:58 — Flow-maxxing as a meta-desire 1:08:27 — Creating a golden age, distributed cognition 1:14:45 — Preserving agency within a fractal super organism 1:17:35 — Psychological development 1:19:15 — What is Neo-Hermeticism? Why this podcast? 1:30:08 — House of Hyperstition, social roles, healing 1:41:25 — The Self (top-down vs. bottom up) 1:47:10 — Good vs. bad egregores 1:51:58 — What is God? 2:00:27 — Divine coordination 2:04:42 — Love is gravity 2:06:52 — Virtue ethics Leona Twitter: https://x.com/dismaien House of Hyperstition: hyperstitio.us Christian Twitter: https://x.com/cxgonzalez Substack: https://substack.com/@cxgonzalez Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez/ Relevant links Visualizing narratives: https://www.community-archive.org Neo-Hermeticism: Meta-rationality: https://metarationality.com Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

    2h 10m

  4. 14 JAN

    Predictive processing, morality, religion, tpot — Seeing Clearly episode 2

    1:24 — Live music 3:33 — Predictive processing and normativity 17:41 — Identity 22:07 — Emotions as an error signal 24:40 — Is/ought gap 27:50 — Abstraction, conceptual scaffolding, pragmatism 31:47 — Morphic field, civilizational development 38:37 — Coordination as a coordination mechanism 43:14 — The Kingdom of God, moral convergence 45:06 — Superorganisms, coordination, and utility functions 47:21 — Bioelectricity as cellular intuition, morphic field 52:01 — Narratives, archetypes, the .story filetype 57:01 — Astrology and The Cycles, personality types 1:01:01 — Platonic Forms 1:02:17 — tpot, Community Archive Xiq’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-159900848 Xiq (“Chic”): X: https://x.com/exgenesis/highlights Substack: https://substack.com/@xiqo Community Archive: https://www.community-archive.org Christian Gonzalez: X: https://x.com/cxgonzalez Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@WorldviewUpdatesPod Spotify: Apple Podcasts: Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 12min
  5. Rebuilding a high trust society, super organisms, fractal agency, Seeing Clearly episode 1

    6 JAN

    Rebuilding a high trust society, super organisms, fractal agency, Seeing Clearly episode 1

    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 society 5:45 — Bottom-up coordination, village life 7:56 — Microsolidarity as social physics 10:00 — Taxonomy of superorganisms 19:20 — Self-help is a scam 21:06 — Social roles, groups as error correcting 28:02 — The fractal self, IFS therapy 37:37 — The goal is maturity 40:22 — How to find meaningful work 45:15 — Doing vs. Becoming 48:58 — Casa Tilo 1:00:55 — Do egregores/superorganisms strip agency? 1:07:13 — Christianity and Vervaeke Rich X — https://x.com/RichDecibels Substack — https://substack.com/@richdecibels Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/richarddbartlett/ TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@rich_decibels Personal Website — https://richdecibels.com Stay at Casa Tilo — https://www.eltilo.casa Christian X — https://x.com/cxgonzalez Substack — https://substack.com/@cxgonzalez Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/c.x.gonzalez TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@cxgonzalez Get full access to Seeing Clearly at cxgonzalez.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 10min
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Exploring different philosophical frames for understanding what is and what we ought to do. Hosted by Christian Gonzalez. cxgonzalez.substack.com

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