Deep Psychology
Deep Psychology is a podcast hosted by author and coach Ross Edwards that explores psychology, meditation, and self-observation for deeper self-knowledge. New episodes are released on Wednesdays, with snippets on Thursdays, Sundays, and Tuesdays. The show has a 200-episode archive categorized by topic, and listeners can follow a fortnightly newsletter. The host also shares his books and music through the podcast's website.
Episodes
Exploring the Masculine-Feminine Typology
The masculine describes qualities typically embodied by biological males, and the feminine describes those embodied by biological females.But anyone – regardless of biological sex or gender identification – embodies both the masculine and the feminine to a certain ratio. Think of them as two forces or poles within us. When harnessed correctly, they each bring certain capacities. When allowed to co
Are You An Introvert?
Are you an introvert? Use these key markers of introversion to find out.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 19/8 episode, Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems - Part 1/2 (#158)
Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems - Part 1/2 (#158)
In this mini-series, we’re going to look at the main personality typology systems and how to use them.Knowing your personality type helps you achieve a reliable snapshot of your personality and tendencies, boosting your self-understanding and ability to navigate others.Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS: Sacred Journey Destinations | Egypt, Peru & Turkey To
When Identity Decouples from the Conventional Self
One of the key markers of transpersonal development is that our identity becomes permanently decoupled from the limited sense of personal self.This is a snippet from my 12/8 episode, The Transpersonal 3rd-tier Levels of Consciousness (#157)
The Mystery of Transpersonal Levels of Consciousness
When it comes to the transpersonal, 3rd-tier levels of human consciousness, we're operating mostly on speculation rather than hard research data.This is a snippet from my 12/8 episode, The Transpersonal 3rd-tier Levels of Consciousness (#157)
Transpersonal, 3rd-Tier Levels of Consciousness (#157)
Today we discuss the 3rd tier of consciousness development, or the Transpersonal levels. These are very rare levels beyond Turquoise Construct-Aware that few reach..Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS: Sacred Journey Destinations | Egypt, Peru & Turkey Tours.Next listen: The Levels of Consciousness Series (#151-157)Pre-order The Boundless Body: https://deep-
The Collapse of the Enlightenment Project
At Turquoise Construct-Aware, enlightenment or spiritual awakening loses its mythic glow and starts to become ordinary, direct, immediate. You stop making spirit an object to be pursued.That is, the enlightenment project collapses.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 5/8 episode, The Post-conventional Levels of Consciousness [Turquoise Construct Aware] (#156).
When You Finally Stop Delaying Fulfillment
The move to Turquoise Construct-Aware heralds the end of teleological living, or goal-oriented living. Every single prior level of consciousness is organised around goals and outcomes, essentially delaying fulfillment until later - until we finally see through and drop this mechanism.
Key Features of Turquoise Construct-Aware Level
These are the key features of the Turquoise Construct-Aware level in outline.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 5/8 episode, Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 3/3 (#156)
The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 3/3 (#156) [Turquoise Construct-Aware]
Today we discuss the 3rd postconventional level of consciousness, Turquoise Construct-Aware.This level sits on the verge of the Transpersonal levels and is starkly different to the Yellow/Teal Integral level that precedes it.Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS: Sacred Journey Destinations | Egypt, Peru & Turkey Tours.Next listen: The Levels of Consciousness
The Power of Systems Thinking
At the Yellow/Teal level of consciousness, we begin to tap into systems thinking. Let's explore what it means and why it's powerful.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155)
The Birth of Multiple Perspectives
At Integral, we become multiperspectival for the first time. This is a radical shift in cognitive development and worldview, and here we explore its implications through practical examples.This is a snippet from my 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155)
When The World Becomes Developmental
The shift to Integral consciousness marks the first stage at which you see yourself, others and humanity developmentally. Here, we explore just what that means.This is a snippet from my 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155)
1st Tier v 2nd Tier Development: The Monumental Leap
Let's discuss "the monumental leap in meaning" that occurs when we transition from 1st tier to 2nd tier in our development.This is a snippet from my 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155).
Key Features of Yellow/Teal Integral Stage
A bitesize overview of the Yellow/Teal Integral stage of development or level of consciousness, which Graves called "a monumental leap in meaning".This is a snippet from my 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155).
The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155)
We continue our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Post-Conventional levels of consciousness, the leading edge of human development that discloses our future.Today we focus on the second such level, Yellow Integral (also given the colour teal).Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS: https://deep-psychology.captivate.fm/spirit-quest-toursNext listen: L
The Post-Scientific Spiritual Revival
At Green Postmodern, you revive or rediscover your spiritual life in a post-rational, non-dogmatic form. This is the beginning of true spiritual wisdom.This is a snippet from my 22/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 1/2 (#154).
This is a Defining Trait of Green Postmodern
A critical feature of the Green Postmodern stage is that it looks back and criticises the Orange Achiever stage with its rationality, scientific mind and focus on success.This is a snippet from my 22/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 1/2 (#154).
Defining Features of Postconventional Consciousness
Some of the defining features of what it means to be postconventional, a metalevel of development that only 15-20% of humans ever reach.This is a snippet from my 22/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 1/2 (#154).
The Tricky Conventional-Postconventional Transition
The move from Orange Rational to Green Postmodern is not just a stage change, but a meta-stage change - from Conventional to Postconventional. This transition can be deeply destabilising, confusing and lonely.This is a snippet from my 22/7 episode, The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 1/2 (#154)
The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 1/3 (#154)
We continue our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Post-Conventional levels of consciousness, the leading edge of human development that discloses our future.Today we focus on the common features of Postconventional levels and the first such level, Green Postmodern.Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS: https://deep-psychology.captivate.fm/spirit-que
The Conformist Level of Consciousness
Here's a quick overview of Blue Conformist, the first Conventional level of consciousness.This is a snippet from my Tuesday 14/7 episode, The Conventional Levels of Consciousness.
The Conventional Levels of Consciousness (#153)
Today we’re continuing our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Conventional levels of consciousness, the home stages for most people across the world.Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS: https://deep-psychology.captivate.fm/spirit-quest-toursNext listen: Levels of Consciousness Series (#151-155)All my episodes on Developmental Psychology: https://pl
Your Level Defines The World You Experience
The existence of the levels suggest to me that there is no default world that we either perceive accurately or not. The way the world "is" is defined by your level of development.This is a snippet from my Tuesday 14/7 episode, The Pre-Conventional Levels of Consciousness.
The Deeper Question About Pre-Conventional Growth
The existence of Pre-Conventional levels of consciousness throws up a huge existential question regarding what the world actually is. Here we discuss it.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 8/7 episode, The Pre-Conventional Levels of Consciousness.
Pre-Conventional Consciousness in a Nutshell
Do not underestimate the importance of pre-conventional development: we go from newborns in the "primordial matrix" to participants in conventional society.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 8/7 episode, The Pre-Conventional Levels of Consciousness.
The Pre-Conventional Levels of Consciousness (#152)
Today we’re continuing our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Pre-conventional levels of consciousness, the first building blocks in the human psyche.Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS: https://deep-psychology.captivate.fm/spirit-quest-toursNext listen: Levels of Consciousness Series (#151-155)All my episodes on Developmental Psychology: https://p
What the Levels of Consciousness Explain
If you asked me, "What do the levels of consciousness guide in our lives?", my short answer would be, "Everything".This is a snippet from my Wednesday 1/7 episode, What Are The Levels of Consciousness?
Why Learn About The Levels of Consciousness?
If we're going to spend a whole month learning about the levels of consciousness, we should know why.Put simply, absorbing this knowledge can dramatically change how you see yourself, others and humanity at large.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 1/7 episode, What are The Levels of Consciousness, no. 151.
What Are The Levels of Consciousness? (#151)
The levels of consciousness are a critical tool for understanding yourself, others and the human condition.Today and this month you’re going to understand this fundamental trajectory that is guiding our lives.Our lives are not random or aimless: we're all on a journey, for which the levels of consciousness form a timeless blueprint.Understand them, and it will greatly enhance your understanding of
The Story Medicine Can't Tell
The medical system tries to reduce our problems down to simple, pragmatic descriptions and solutions. But does this always help?This is a snippet from my Wednesday 24/6 episode, The Diagnosis Obsession Part 2.
Your State is More Fundamental Than Any Diagnosis
Diagnoses are always trying to describe a state, which is more real than any diagnosis applied to it, and is independent of it: your state is not the diagnosis, and the diagnosis is not your state.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 24/6 episode, The Diagnosis Obsession Part 2.
A Diagnosis Is Just a Heuristic
We tend to think diagnoses are absolute, when really they are practical tools that professionals use to attempt to improve your health.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 24/6 episode, The Diagnosis Obsession Part 2.
The Diagnosis Obsession - Part 2/2 (#150)
How many people are walking around right now with diagnoses for ADHD, depression, anxiety or other similar conditions that are unnecessary and useless - with dodgy diagnoses?In part 2 of The Diagnosis Obsession, we explore why diagnoses are a heuristic, why our state is primary and our diagnosis is secondary, and some do's and don'ts when it comes to diagnoses.Disclaimer: I am not qualified to dia
Diagnosis Is Big Business
There's a lot of money in medicine and pharmaceuticals, and this puts a huge survival pressure on the industry.This is not a countercultural slur, just a basic structural fact of healthcare.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 17/6 episode, The Diagnosis Obsession Part 1.
The Diagnosis Imperative
Healthcare professionals' priority is to diagnose you. That is what they are trying to do. But is it necessary? Is it functional? Is it right?And what's more - patients themselves are often biased towards obtaining a diagnosis.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 17/6 episode, The DIagnosis Imperative Part 1.
Diagnoses Are Trendy
How many people have you heard saying "I think I have autism/ADHD/anxiety/depression because of x, y or z"? I'm sure you've heard someone, because diagnoses of this kind have become trendy.We're so quick to diagnose ourselves and others with psychological illnesses.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 17/6 episode, The Diagnosis Obsession Part 1.
The Diagnosis Obsession - Part 1/2 (#149)
How many people are walking around right now with diagnoses for ADHD, depression, anxiety or other similar conditions that are unnecessary and useless - with dodgy diagnoses?In part 1 of The Diagnosis Obsession, we explore why the health system runs on diagnoses, why this biases how we understand health, and why ordinary health-system realities reveal the obvious problem.Disclaimer: I am not quali
4 Forms of Fake Inner Work
Four examples of fake inner work: talk therapy, meditation for emotional benefits, medication, diagnoses. This is a snippet from my Wednesday 10/6 episode, Real vs Fake Inner Work (#148).
The Litmus Test for Inner Work
This is how you know whether you're doing proper inner work or not. Very simple, but very powerful.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 10/6 episode, Real vs Fake Inner Work (#148).
Real v Fake Inner Work (#148)
There are effective ways of doing inner work, and there are ineffective ways. You can uncover gold, but you can also fall into traps.Here you'll learn a clear litmus test for whether you’re doing real or fake inner work, with lots of clear, grounded examples to make these principles practical.Next listen: Key Principles for Psychological Work Parts 1&2 (#144 & #147)All my episodes on Psych
Your Psyche Constructs Your World
Your psyche is constructed to such a degree that, in fact, it constructs your world too. There is no such thing as accurate perception of life.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 3/6 episode, The Key Principles of Psychological Work, Part 2 (#147).Next listen: The Key Principles of Psychological Work, Part 1 (#144) ; What is Psychology? (#143)All my episodes on Spirituality: https://player.captiva
Everything You Believe About Yourself Is a Story
Another major implication of psychological non-duality is that because our true nature is unbounded consciousness, our entire self-image is essentially a fiction.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 3/6 episode, The Key Principles of Psychological Work, Part 2 (#147).Next listen: The Key Principles of Psychological Work, Part 1 (#144) ; What is Psychology? (#143)All my episodes on Spirituality: htt
Why Your Experience is Self-Sealing
A major implication of psychological non-duality is that you cannot step outside your experience, and your entire psyche was built inside it, meaning your conception of everything is entirely your own.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 3/6 episode, The Key Principles of Psychological Work, Part 2 (#147).Next listen: The Key Principles of Psychological Work, Part 1 (#144) ; What is Psychology? (#1
Key Principles for Psychological Work, Part 2/2 (#147)
What are the key principles for doing psychological work? How do we know we are doing this work properly? How do we know we are not deceiving ourselves?In part 2 two-part mini-series we cover principles 3 and 4 for this work. This will underlie any future work we do.Next listen: What is Psychology? (#143), Key Principles for Psychological Work Part 1 (#144)All my episodes on Psychology: https://pl
How to Understand People Inside Out
We're all living in our own world. To truly comprehend others, you need to feel into the world they inhabit as you interact with them. Look closely at their true desires, needs and motivations beyond your kneejerk reactions.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 27/5 episode, We All Live In Our Own World (#146), originally published in 2024.All my Psychology episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/coll
We Only Know a Tiny Slither of Life
We only experience a miniscule piece of the entire world, and this little microcosm shapes us and is reflected in our character. Not only that, we interpret the world in our own way. Put these two insights together and it's clear we all live in our own world.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 27/5 episode, We All Live In Our Own World (#146), originally published in 2024.All my Psychology episode
Your Fundamental Assumption About Humans
We typically believe there is a single objective world that we may perceive differently but ultimately is common to us all. We also believe we're all the same and have the same goals and values. But is this really true?This is a snippet from my Wednesday 27/5 episode, We All Live In Our Own World (#146), originally published in 2024.All my Psychology episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collectio
We All Live In Our Own World [Repost] (#146)
You only experience a finite part of objective reality, of all positive input you could receive, of all possible human experiences,ANDyour unique psychology is so powerful that it puts a particular slant or filter on everything you experience.This in short is why we all live in our own world.This is a foundational episode of mine, originally published in July 2024.Next listen: What is Psychology?
Mundane Acts Are a Microcosm
The impressions we have of the events in our life reflect our mind. Things are not inherently one way or another - we make them so. Even down to tiny everyday acts like taking the rubbish out.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 20/5 episode, Your Psychology = Your Life (#145), originally published in 2024.All my Psychology episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/9f81342e-0c6f-4b7d-ab6c-bd
The "World" is a Function of Your Psychology
Everything you experience is filtered through your psychology, and then you believe that it is as your psychology presents it. Everything you know and perceive is a reflection of your mind. In other words, life a function of your psychology.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 20/5 episode, Your Psychology = Your Life (#145) originally published in 2024.All my Psychology episodes: https://player.ca
We Are Fundamentally Confused About Our Identity
One of the core human confusions is that of identity: we believe we are something we are not, we believe we are separate from the world around us, and we believe that we live in the head somewhere.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 20/5 episode, Your Psychology = Your Life (#145), originally published in 2024.All my Psychology episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/9f81342e-0c6f-4b7d-ab
Your Psychology = Your Life [Repost] (#145)
This video explains one of the fundamental truths of life: that your psychology = your life. Understand this, and your world will turn inside out.This is a foundational episode of mine, originally published in Dec 2024.Next listen: What is Psychology? (#143); The Key Principles of Psychological Work Part 1 (#144)All my Psychology episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/9f81342e-0c6f-4b7d-
Why You Do Everything You Do
Every action of yours has one or two fundamental needs driving it (or a first cause, as I call it). Discovering them is critical for understanding yourself in every situation.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 13/5 episode, The Key Principles for Psychological Work Part 1 (#144).Next listen: The Key Principles for Psychological Work Part 1 (#144); What is Psychology? (#143)All my episodes on Psyc
Who You Are Is Right Before You
The principle of truth is not abstract - it has you be honest about who you are, and that is always visible, right here, right now.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 13/5 episode, The Key Principles for Psychological Work Part 1 (#144)Next listen: The Key Principles for Psychological Work Part 1 (#144) ; What is Psychology? (#143)All my episodes on Psychology: https://player.captivate.fm/collecti
The Power of Truth in Psychological Work
If psychological work is discovering why you are as you are and changing it if need be, being truthful is a central pillar in that process.If you are truthful with yourself, you can discover endlessly many aspects of your character that would otherwise remain buried.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 13/5 episode, The Key Principles of Psychological Work (#144).200-show library by category: https
Key Principles for Psychological Work, Part 1/2 (#144)
What are the key principles for doing psychological work? How do we know we are doing this work properly? How do we know we are not deceiving ourselves?In this two-part mini-series we cover the top 4 principles for this work. This will underlie any future work we do.Next listen: What is Psychology? (#143), Key Principles for Psychological Work Part 2 (#147)All my episodes on Psychology: https://pl
Self-Observation Changes Everything
My claim: all our traits and ways we are have deep, fundamental reasons behind them, and through self-observation and careful self-directed work, we can change those traits if need be.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 6/5 episode, What is Psychology? (#143)[Apologies for the mic noise!]All my Psychology episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/9f81342e-0c6f-4b7d-ab6c-bd333126470eDive int
Your Mind is a Mosaic
We are as we are because of a complex mosaic of factors, and the ones we choose to emphasise over the others reveal our own psychology![Again, I apologise for the mic tapping!]This is a snippet from my Wednesday 6/5 episode, What Is Psychology? (#143)Explore all my Psychology episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/9f81342e-0c6f-4b7d-ab6c-bd333126470eExplore my 200-episode podcast library
Psychology = Why You Are As You Are
My definition of psychology is: the study of why you are as you are.This is a simple but deceptive and very powerful definition, and in this snippet I explain why.[Again, I apologise for the mic tapping.]This is a snippet from my Wednesday 6/5 episode, What Is Psychology? (#143)Explore all my Psychology episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/9f81342e-0c6f-4b7d-ab6c-bd333126470eExplore my
What is Psychology? (#143)
What is psychology? Why are there so many views on how human psychology works? What are some key questions in psychological work?This is both a foundational episode for understanding all of the work I do on this podcast, and for our May and June Psychology series, where we look at many critical questions in psychological and self-development work.My definition? Psychology is the study of why you a
Spiritual Awareness is Ultimate
Absolute understanding of reality comes not through scientific theory but through direct spiritual awareness. Do not let science replace spiritual awareness.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 29/4 episode, If Science Isn't Ultimate, How Should We Use It? (#142)Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast library: ht
The Problem With Scientific Slogans
Science often gets reduced down into popular slogans that spread quickly through the culture, e.g. "You're distracted because your brain craves dopamine." What are the problems with such slogans?This is a snippet from my Wednesday 29/4 episode, If Science Isn't Ultimate, How Should We Use It? (#142)Episode category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore
Science is an Ever-Improving Approximation of Reality
Though science is conceptual and therefore fundamentally limited, we can also see it as an approximation of truth that may or may not lead us to the ground-bottom nature of reality.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 29/4 episode, If Science Isn't Ultimate, How Should We Use It? (#142)Episode category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episod
If Science Isn’t Ultimate, How Should We Use It? (#142)
After mercilessly deconstructing science this month, today we round off this series by looking at how to skillfully and pragmatically incorporate science into our lives without epistemologically drowning in it.Next listen: The Hidden Dogma in Scientific Thinking (#138) ; The Limits of Brain Science (#139) ; Science is Addicted to Explanations (#140)Explore my 200-episode podcast library: https://d
What Science Misses About Experience
Science doesn't realise that what it's really trying to do is explain and describe our experience, which is primary. Here's what it misses by doing so.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 22/4 episode, What If Experience is Fundamental? (#141)Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast library: https://deep-psycholog
Guided Exercise for Recognising Non-duality
There is nothing outside your current experience. Sounds obvious, but this is the key to spiritual awakening, and this guided exercise in non-duality will aid your recognition of it.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 29/4 episode, What If Experience is Fundamental? (#141)Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast
What is Experience?
If we are to understand why experience is fundamental, we ought to know what the word experience means in this context!This is a snippet from my Wednesday 22/4 episode, What If Experience is Fundamental? (#141)Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast library: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-catsNewsletter &
What If Experience Is Fundamental? (#141)
Your life is simply your current experience. That is it. This is the key point science overlooks.This episode explores the primacy of experience and how everything we think we know or understand appears within it, not the other way round.This includes all of science and all knowledge of any kind.We also do a guided exercise to help you deeply grasp what is being said here.Next listen: The Hidden D
Why Models Obscure Understanding
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 15/4 episode, Science is Addicted to Explanations. (#140)Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast library: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-catsNewsletter & books: https://deep-psychology.com/my-links
Does Science Actually Describe Reality?
Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholesFor example, science will say a human is really just cells, which are really just atoms, which are mostly nothing!No - the human is the human. It is irreducible. Sure, we can analyse and parse it, but the constituent elements are not the human, by definition.This is a snippet from my episode
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 they cannot be described.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 15/4 episode, Science is Addicted to Explanations (#140).Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast library
Science is Addicted to Explanations (#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 series on the philosophy of science with a look at how science is built on models and explanations, and the problems this creates.These problems extend through much of science, because it is founded on model making.Next listen: The Hidden Dogma in Scient
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 our brain is entirely contained within our experience.This is a snippet from The Limits of Brain Science: Why Correlation Isn't Explanation (#139)Episode category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 2
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 think. And when you think, you are not experiencing your brain.This is a snippet from my episode The Limits of Brain Science (#139)Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode p
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, we wouldn’t feel fear. It’s because of my brain”How can your brain “cause” fear? How can a squidgy lump of flesh cause fear?This is a snippet from my Wednesday 8th April episode, The Limits of Brain Science (#139).Philosophy category: https://player.
The Limits of Brain Science: Why Correlation Isn’t Explanation (#139)
This episode examines the relationship between the brain and experience, and challenges the common view that the brain explains our experience.We explore the basic fact that the brain is physical (tissue, chemistry, electrical activity) and experience is subjective (thoughts, emotions, sensations).These are two distinct types of phenomena that reliably correlate but cannot be couched in one anothe
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 isn’t actually a thing, neuroscientists themselves do not live out this wisdom.Also, science confuses accumulation of knowledge with wisdom.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 1/4 episode, The Hidden Dogma in Scientific Thinking (#138).Episode category:
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, but rarely of itself.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 1/4 episode, The Hidden Dogma in Scientific Thinking (#138).All my philosophy episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast li
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 rather than original insight - and this underlies scientific training too.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 1/4 episode, The Hidden Dogma in Scientific Thinking (#138).All my philosophy episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232
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