Comment by adolph

Vervaeke makes a claim of parasitism explicit in the Meaning Crisis series.

  We call this Parasitic Processing because it's like a parasite in that it 
  takes up life within you, and it takes life away from you! It causes you to 
  lose your agency. It causes you to suffer. And here's what's important. This 
  capacity for your cognitive brain to be self organizing, heuristic using, 
  complexify, to create complex systems and functions with emergent abilities, 
  has a downside to it.

  This is a complex, self-organising, adaptive system! If you try and intervene 
  here the rest of the system reorganizes itself around your attempted 
  intervention. It can adapt and preserve itself as you tried to destroy it. 
  Why? Because it's making use of the very machinery by which You adapt, and 
  make use of the things that are trying to destroy You!

https://www.meaningcrisis.co/ep-13-awakening-from-the-meanin...