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Back to SearchInterlude LIV: Attention as Reality Selection - Salience Networks, Attentional Gating, and the Construction of Experience
Episode 104
What if reality isn't something you perceive, but something you select?
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores the…
3 months ago
Interlude LIII.5: The Things You Do Not See - Inattentional Blindness, Attention, and the Limits of Perception
Episode 103
What are you missing right in front of you?
In this provocative interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores one of the most qui…
3 months, 1 week ago
Interlude LIII: The Illusion of the Self - Narrative Identity, Default Mode Network, and the Constructed Mind
Episode 102
What if the “self” you trust most is not something you are, but something your brain is doing?
In this intellectually rigorous interlude of The Obser…
3 months, 1 week ago
Mailbag Installment XX: Why Sad Music Feels Addictive - Emotional Loops, Nervous System Regulation, and the Cost of What We Return To
Episode 101
Why do some people keep returning to music that makes them feel worse?
In this Mailbag Installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey res…
3 months, 1 week ago
Interlude LII: The Brain That Guesses - Predictive Processing, Perception, and the Illusion of Reality
Episode 100
What if you are not perceiving reality, but predicting it?
In this unsettling and intellectually charged interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Jua…
3 months, 1 week ago
Salima Adelstein
Episode 99
Sufism, Neuroscience, and the Regulated Heart: A Conversation with Salima Adelstein
What happens inside the human nervous system when spiritual pract…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Stacy James
Episode 98
Stacy James: Conservation, Consciousness, and the Psychology of Witnessing the Wild
What happens to human consciousness when survival is no longer th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Spencer Delisle
Episode 97
Breath, Regulation, and High Performance - The Neuroscience of Meditation with Spencer Delisle
What if clarity is not a personality trait, but a trai…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Mailbag Installment XIX: Health Anxiety, Hypochondria, and Learning to Trust the Body Again
Episode 96
In this profoundly relatable Mailbag Installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a moving listener letter about chronic he…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Interlude LI: The Integrated Self - Regulation as Freedom
Episode 95
In this contemplative interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey brings the recent arc on altered states to a refined point of synthesi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago