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Feeling the meaning of life

Yves Sauve•podcasters.spotify.com
Science
Life Sciences
Dr. Sauvé puts forward that the lack of sensory awareness of the cellular activity that generates predictive mental models creates a void, and becomes a threat itself. Where do our thoughts come from, we cannot feel them being generated?He proposes that our potential to experience happiness is as infinite as our willingness to connect with our senses mindfully, letting thoughts be thoughts.Between sensors and effectors, the in-between becomes sense, trying to make sense, compelled to make sense. Let go, breathe, come back to your senses.
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Part 9: Concluding Remarks

Sometime I smile because I am happy, other times I am happy because I smile. Fell free to contact me at : ysauve557@gmail.com

Apr 14, 2023•26 min

Part 8: Making Sense in our Changing Environment

The oldest fossil records of Homo sapiens where found in Jebel Irhoud, Moroco; they date 300 thousand years. In only the last iota of its existence as distinct species – starting 3.5 thousand years ago, with the Mesopotamian civilization – humans changed their physical and social environments. The most drastic transformations correspond to the dawning of the industrial revolution, 250 years ago, culminating to the ubiquitous use of the Internet, social media and smartphones over the past 20 year...

Apr 14, 2023•39 min

Part 7: Ignorance and Convenience

“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”. Derek Bok “We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable”. Alexander Solzhenitzyn

Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 1 min

Part 6: Feeling the Meaning of Life

At various instances in this podcast, I mentioned, "breathe". My rationale was that paying attention to your breath connects you directly to your senses, allowing your thoughts to live their own life, accepting that thoughts are not entities, recognising that they captured your attention away from your breath and patiently reconnecting to the sensation of your breath, again and again, a thousand times. In this manner you develop a new relationship with your thoughts, you let them be, you acknowl...

Apr 10, 2023•31 min

Part 5: The Meaning of Life

You ask, what is the meaning of life? You do so because you can. Your inclination and ability to ask this question are incidental to the evolution of predictive mental models. These models emulate and predict the specific physical aspects of reality that have determined survival and passage of genetic information from and between species over 3.8 billion of years. The fact that you can ask this question is an offshoot of your brain's ability to model and predict a reality without requiring senso...

Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 31 min

Part 3: Between Sensors and Effectors

Between sensors and effectors, the in-between becomes sense, trying to make sense, compelled to make sense. Let go, breathe, and come back to your senses.

Apr 03, 2023•36 min

Part 2: Evolution Of The Senses (continued)

We are now at 1 billion years ago, unicellular algae thrive, forming complex structures, some of which will fossilize as multicellular and morphologically differentiated macrofossils.

Mar 31, 2023•34 min

Part 2: Evolution Of The Senses

“Nothing in Biology Makes Any Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.” Theodosius Dobzhansky According to Hoffman and Singh (2012), evolution “shapes perceptual systems to guide fitter behaviour, not to estimate truth”. They state that vision “rather favours fitness of the organism with the external world”.

Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 4 min

Part 1: Vision

Our brain constructs the visual reality we experience.

Mar 23, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Feeling the meaning of life: Introduction

How the evolution of the senses led humans to ask the question "what is the meaning of life"?Dr. Yves Sauvé approaches a fundamental question in a thought provoking, compassionate and poetic fashion, based on scientific facts. What is the meaning of life? He invites us to ponder why we can actually ask this very question. We are taken on a journey of how our brain creates the reality we experience, and how our senses evolved from single cells. Between sensing (input) and acting (motor output), n...

Mar 16, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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