Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.967

   > So you want both. That's vitality to me. And this is getting kind of Eastern philosophy, which is more your domain than mine. I'm always eager to learn here. But when you think about chi, or kind of dopamine, or life energy, I mean the desire to create

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/dopamine/008-so-you-want-both.md

2. 02 · _intake0.788

   I have decided to continue to engage my right hemisphere, and become more creative in my thinking. I am intrigued by what I have found buried within. There are some talents I have that I did not know existed. So I am going to expand upon them and try to become more balanced in my brain capacity. I think I am going to develop some exercise’s to help facilitate this program of growth much like we would do if we hired a personal trainer to sculpt our bodies. I have decided to sculpt my creative mind in 2012. I think this might be a fun thing to share with many of you as well and let you know what…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/the-primal-principles-of-optimal-living.md

3. 03 · yt0.787

   And the idea that there's two sides of that, and actually, this is a good idea to introduce this term of hormesis, which you and I were talking about offline, the idea that you have this addiction circuit where you get a reward, but then you drop to a baseline that's below the original baseline, and then it's a downward spiral, versus hormesis, which is more like exercise. Can you explain hormesis? - [Daniel] Yeah. And I just wanna say, because you have an educated audience, we're simplifying everything for model purpose and speed purpose. Obviously, it's not just dopamine, right? You can have…

   yt/_7aIgHoydP8-saving-civilization-healthcare-tech-democracy-w-daniel-schma/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.778

   So it's not a one-size-fits-all, but in general, I think that that intention, that desire, that sort of little internal reward from getting to inhabit another perspective, in other words, the possibility of it leads to the intention to some degree. - [Daniel] Okay, you just mentioned something that I think is real interesting, and we'll go back to where we were earlier, which is you said you get a bit of a dopamine hit from understanding the view of someone that you hadn't previously understood, where kind of the world opens up, something makes more sense. There's like a reward circuit on incr…

   yt/_7aIgHoydP8-saving-civilization-healthcare-tech-democracy-w-daniel-schma/transcript.txt

5. 05 · blog0.777

   Raphals (2015: 133–34) observes that there is no clear boundary between “weak holism” and “weak dualism”. Given that physicalism acknowledges the continuity of matter and energy, we can perhaps circumvent these attempts to fit Chinese philosophy into Western categories, and simply observe a similar continuity of these elements of Chinese qi- naturalism that explain the functions of the heart-mind, thinking, feeling and intentions in behavior. The rest of bodily qi , as the Mengzi says, carries out the commands of the heart-mind, or as the Zhuangzi responds, other bodily organs (e.g., the stoma…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/mind-heart-mind-in-chinese-philosophy.md

6. 06 · yt0.774

   I can look forward to a delighted future. I can be creative. I can I can love a piece of music. I can love a piece of architecture. I can certainly love poems. But I don't think an AI can do this, because it's all related to having a body. Music is very, very physical phenomenon. It's not just patterns in the sky. Um poems mean nothing if they don't refer to experiences that only humans can have. Information about those experiences can be fed into as much as you like into AI, but it's not the same as having the experiences. So, I I would be extremely skeptical. You know, I'm very, very skeptic…

   yt/Kclh9hSs8d0-iain-mcgilchrist-on-what-truly-matters/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.773

   But this goes back to what I pointed out about Plato. We want to be connected to something that's really real. So this these are the three questions to ask yourself to see if you have mattering. What do you want to exist even if you don't? What do you want to exist even if you don't? That's right. Got it. How really real is it? Mhm. It's not virtual, not ephemeral, not superficial. How how much of it how connected are you? How much do you matter to it? And how much of a difference does it make to you? Mhm. How significant? So mattering and significant are turning out to just actually be two si…

   yt/NOwnb6CkFlQ-humanity-s-meaning-crisis-what-ancient-wisdom-modern-psychol/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.771

   [Music] thus far like a typical philosopher I've been trying to explain what Zen and Buddhism is and others it may seem this is really quite the wrong thing to do and stranger still if in these talks I succeed in giving you some sort of impression that you understand that the whole problem has been made clear in words I shall really have deceived you because you can see part of the whole reason why life seems problematic to us and why we go in for philosophies to try and clear it all up is that what we are trying to do is we are trying to fit the order of the universe to the order of words and…

   yt/5scxrMeYNc0-alan-watts-lectures-discipline-of-zen/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.770

   Well, I I don't know if what I'm going to say is directly relevant to the point you just made, but it seems to me it is necessary to distinguish between two situations uh or two levels of education. There's first of all a level of education for everyone. And it involves, as I said before, that the young person is uh somehow guided into respecting certain values and uh accepting certain basic truths or perhaps not absolute truth, but something a little less than that, but truth not nonetheless. And it is already on this primary level of education that I feel our civilization has completely fail…

   yt/1Lm3y_4a--0-wolfgang-smith-and-john-vervaeke-the-perpetual-promise-inexh/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.769

    From the process that you learned when you did the KB cycle when you were a freshman in medical school. That's where it gets the energy from. Chemical energy. Chemical energy is the it drives the system. does not control the system. That's what Becker asked about. Two separate things, right? That is um I I appreciate the perspective, but I I I guess I have a slightly different understanding of that. And in part it's informed by other cultural systems or um so when we like in Chinese medicine, if we start talking aboutqi or prana, right? when I as a martial artist could see different things don…

    yt/JRicmld6AkU-andrw-a-marino-interviewed-by-dr-kamau-kokayi/transcript.txt