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What Models Actually Are & Their Fundamental Flaw
A model is about a phenomenon. It is not the phenomenon. By definition. Therefore, models do not actually describe phenomena, because fundamentally t…
1 month ago
Science is Addicted to Explanations (#140)
Episode 140
What if models were not the only way to understand reality? What if they created deep blind spots, biases and paradigm lock?
We continue our April ser…
1 month ago
The Brain Is In Experience
We tend to think that our experience arises inside the brain, but in fact the opposite is true.
All we know of our brain is our experience is it, and …
1 month, 1 week ago
Your Brain Does Not Think
Our thought patterns: “my brain thinks”, “my brain goes round in loops”. These are cliches. Have you ever thought about this?
No, your brain does not …
1 month, 1 week ago
Your Brain Is Not the Source of Fear
Our usual thinking is to pin the cause of the fear on the brain.
So we say “we feel fear because x area of the brain activates. If it didn’t activate,…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Limits of Brain Science: Why Correlation Isn’t Explanation (#139)
Episode 139
This episode examines the relationship between the brain and experience, and challenges the common view that the brain explains our experience.
We exp…
1 month, 1 week ago
Science’s Hidden Black Hole
Science does not truly question the idea of self. Even though neuroscience itself would say that the self is simply a result of brain activity and is…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Main Blind Spot in Science
Science does not pay attention to epistemology and philosophy - it focuses exclusively on calculation and application.
It is also highly skeptical, bu…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Echo Chamber of Science
A key and mostly overlooked issue is that science is an echo chamber.
Much of science operates through repetition, imitation, and inherited frameworks…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Hidden Dogma In Scientific Thinking (#138)
Episode 138
Scientific practice contains certain philosophical assumptions. These are treated as facts and then passed on. And they are unexamined. That is, they…
1 month, 2 weeks ago