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 experien...
14 Apr 4min
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...
12 Apr 4min
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”Ho...
9 Apr 5min
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 (tis...
8 Apr 47min
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...
7 Apr 6min
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 Wednes...
5 Apr 3min
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 ...
2 Apr 3min
The Hidden Dogma In Scientific Thinking (#138)
Scientific practice contains certain philosophical assumptions. These are treated as facts and then passed on. And they are unexamined. That is, they are dogma.In episode 1 of my April series on the p...
1 Apr 1h 9min
