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What Models Actually Are & Their Fundamental Flaw
Episode 209
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, 3 weeks ago
Science is Addicted to Explanations
Episode 208
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, 3 weeks ago
The Brain Is In Experience
Episode 207
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, 4 weeks ago
Your Brain Does Not Think
Episode 206
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, 4 weeks ago
Your Brain Is Not the Source of Fear
Episode 205
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,…
2 months ago
The Limits of Brain Science: Why Correlation Isn’t Explanation
Episode 204
This episode examines the relationship between the brain and experience, and challenges the common view that the brain explains our experience.We exp…
2 months ago
Science’s Hidden Black Hole
Episode 203
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…
2 months ago
The Main Blind Spot in Science
Episode 202
Science does not pay attention to epistemology and philosophy - it focuses exclusively on calculation and application.It is also highly skeptical, bu…
2 months ago
The Echo Chamber of Science
Episode 201
A key and mostly overlooked issue is that science is an echo chamber. Much of science operates through repetition, imitation, and inherited framework…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Hidden Dogma In Scientific Thinking
Episode 200
Scientific practice contains certain philosophical assumptions. These are treated as facts and then passed on. And they are unexamined. That is, they…
2 months, 1 week ago