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What if flow, insight, and mystical experience are different scales of the same underlying process? In this standalone Lectern episode, John Vervaeke speaks with Hüseyin and Daniel about their recently published paper on the cognitive continuum: a framework that moves from fluency to insight, flow, mystical experience, and transformation. The discussion develops Vervaeke's earlier work on relevance realization by bringing it into dialogue with the enactive approach, complex dynamic systems theory, and contemporary psychedelic research. The episode begins with the enactive critique of a simple subject-object split. Daniel explains why both self and world are groundless in the enactive sense: not nonexistent, but not pregiven independent substances either. Self and world arise relationally through embodied sensemaking. This matters because mystical experiences often involve a loosening or collapse of the ordinary self-world boundary. Hüseyin then walks through the paper's core argument. Fluency is reframed as a local form of attunement, not merely ease of information processing. Insight becomes a more global reorganization of the system. Flow becomes an insight cascade: a temporally extended state of metastable attunement. Mystical experience becomes the most global state on the continuum, where the deepest structures of self-world organization can be destabilized and reorganized. The conversation also makes a strong ethical point. Experiences that loosen ordinary constraints are not automatically good. Psychedelic states, mystical experiences, contemplative practices, and mindfulness can create epistemic vulnerability. Depending on context, they can become transformative, but they can also lead to derealization, depersonalization, false insight, spiritual bypassing, narcissism, or psychosis. Integration, practices, ethical frameworks, communities, and traditions matter because transformation is not produced by the state alone. Key Insights Mystical experience cannot be adequately explained by neurobiology alone. Enactivism challenges both naive realism and idealism by treating cognition as embodied, embedded, and relational. Relevance realization and sensemaking converge around a shared account of how cognition finds and enacts significance. Fluency is a domain-general feeling of attunement with the world. Insight is not only a representational shift; it can be a reorganization of the person-world system. Flow can be understood as a cascade of insights sustained through metastable attunement. Mystical experience may involve a globalized form of relevance realization, or even the release of relevance realization's ordinary grasping. Transformative experience requires more than destabilization; it requires viable reorganization. Context, set, setting, integration, ethical orientation, and community shape whether self-transcendent experiences help or harm. Scientific work on these topics needs reflexivity because research itself participates in the world it describes. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome and episode frame 02:40 Hüseyin introduces the paper 04:40 Daniel introduces mystical experience and the self-world boundary 06:00 Groundlessness in the enactive approach 07:00 Neurocentrism and why brain-only explanations are insufficient 09:50 Self, world, and enacted sensemaking 11:30 Functionality, pathology, and the stakes of self-transcendence 13:00 From flow to mystical experience 14:20 Entropic Brain, REBUS, and psychedelic research 16:40 Organizational causality and complex systems 18:50 Fluency as local attunement 20:00 Relevance realization and sensemaking 24:50 Optimal grip and opponent processing 27:10 Complexification and cycles of destabilization and reorganization 29:10 Insight as globalized fluency 34:50 Flow as an insight cascade 37:40 Metastable attunement and flexibility 40:20 Mystical experience and psychedelic neuroimaging 42:10 REBUS, ALBUS, beliefs, and context 44:20 Global relevance realization 46:00 Meta optimal grip, decentering, and pivotal mental states 48:10 Daniel on reflexivity and mystical experience 50:00 Stephen Batchelor and enlightenment as comprehensive flow 51:20 Relevance realization realizing its own irrelevance 53:40 Knowing groundlessness and nondual awareness 55:20 Effortlessness, acceptance, and letting go 56:40 William Desmond, astonishment, and inexhaustibility 59:00 Why mystical experience is not automatically transformation 01:01:00 Hans Jonas and self-transcendence in life 01:05:10 Para-self-transcendent phenomena 01:07:00 Existential sensemaking and the person 01:08:30 Sudden transformation and self-transcendent experience 01:09:20 The crucial importance of context 01:11:30 Integration, practices, and ethical frameworks 01:12:40 Epistemic vulnerability and suggestibility 01:16:10 False fluency, false insight, and spiritual bypassing 01:19:00 The forthcoming Four Ps paper 01:21:10 Daniel's closing reflection 01:23:10 Hüseyin's closing reflection on reflexive science 01:25:10 The Blind Spot, Whitehead, and final thanks Resources Hüseyin Beyköylü, John Vervaeke, and Daniel Meling, "From Flow to Mystical Experiences: Connecting Entropy and Fluency Along the Unifying Framework of Cognitive Continuum" - https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2601717 John Vervaeke, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis John Vervaeke, Seeing God Again for the First Time Entropic Brain Hypothesis REBUS model ALBUS model Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life Stephen Batchelor, Alone with Others William Desmond Willoughby Britton's work on meditation-related adverse effects Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson, The Blind Spot Alfred North Whitehead Follow John Vervaeke: Website: https://johnvervaeke.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@johnvervaeke/videos X: https://x.com/DrJohnVervaeke Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke

My guest this week is Aidan McGlynn, a senior lecturer in philosophy at University of Edinburgh and author of the book Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction. We discuss the various facets of epistemic injustice, the impact it has on people's lives, and how we should think about debates over objective truth.Epistemic Injustice: https://www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Injustice-An-Introduction/McGlynn/p/book/9781032251608Music by GW RodriguezEditing by Adam WikSibling Pod:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!This show is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org.Next Episode: Spirituality and Belonging with Kat Ford

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Sometimes the deepest wound isn't just what happened to you.It's what happens when you try to explain it, and no one believes you.In this episode, we are talking about epistemic injury — a form of harm that happens when your reality, your knowledge, or your credibility is questioned, dismissed, or minimized. Many survivors of coercive control experience this not only in their relationships but also in the systems they turn to for help.If you have ever walked out of a meeting, court appointment, therapy session, or conversation, wondering: Did I explain that wrong? Did I sound crazy? Maybe it really is me…You are not alone. And you are not imagining the impact this has on you.In this episode, we talk about:• What epistemic injury is and why it affects so many survivors • How not being believed can recreate the effects of gaslighting • Why this type of injury can be so destabilizing to your identity • How systemic betrayal connects to epistemic injury • Signs you may be dealing with epistemic injury • How healing begins by rebuilding trust in your own perception • Why healing sometimes means protecting your reality instead of proving itThis conversation is especially important for survivors navigating family court, post-separation abuse, or professional systems that may not fully understand coercive control.Join the Rising Beyond Community today. Learn more at https://www.risingbeyondpc.com/membership.htmlPlease leave us a review or rating and follow/subscribe to the show. This helps the show get out to more people.If you want to chat more about this topic I would love to continue our conversation over on Instagram! @risingbeyondpcIf you want to support the show you may do so here at, Buy Me A Coffee. Thank you! We love being able to make this information accessible to you and your community.If you've been looking for a supportive community of women going through the topics we cover, head over to our website to learn more about the Rising Beyond Community. - https://www.risingbeyondpc.com/Where to find more from Rising Beyond:Rising Beyond FacebookRising Beyond LinkedInRising Beyond Pinterest If you're interested in guesting on the show please fill out this form - https://forms.gle/CSvLWWyZxmJ8GGQu7Enjoy some of our freebies!Choosing Your Battles FreebieCanned Responses FreebieMic Drop Moments Freebie...

What happens when the people we believe are on our side… can't hear us? In this episode, I explore what I call the “good guy problem”…those moments when someone who sees themselves as fair, supportive, and an ally is given feedback, and instead of responding with curiosity, something shifts. The conversation moves away from what was experienced and toward protecting intentions, identity, and self-perception. What makes these moments so complex is that they're not random. Beneath the surface, something predictable is happening. Drawing on research in social psychology, including work on identity threat and moral self-image (e.g., Benoît Monin & Dale T. Miller), feedback about behavior can be experienced as a challenge to who someone believes they are. Instead of hearing, “Here's something to reflect on,” the message becomes, “You're not who you think you are.” And once that shift happens, the conversation is no longer about impact, it's about protection.  We revisit my 3 A's Model of Allyship (Acknowledgement, Amplification, and Action) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-3as-of-allyship-acknowledge-amplify-act/id1569849100?i=1000561686008 and name a critical insight: Allyship often breaks down at the very first step. Not when allies are learning about inequity in theory, but in the moment when someone says, “Something about that didn't feel right.” Because acknowledgement, in that moment, requires the ability to sit with discomfort and remain open, even when it challenges your sense of self. When that doesn't happen, allyship can quietly slip into something more fragile; strong when affirmed, but unstable when challenged. This is “fragile allyship”. Instead of creating space for truth, it begins to prioritize comfort. And in that shift, women often find themselves not only naming what happened, but also managing the reaction that follows. The episode also touches on the concept of Epistemic injustice (Miranda Fricker), which helps explain why these moments can feel so disempowering. When someone's lived experience is questioned or dismissed, it's not just disagreement; it's a subtle undermining of their authority to interpret their own reality. And when that comes from someone positioned as an ally, it can erode trust in ways that are hard to name but deeply felt. At its core, this episode comes back to a simple, necessary truth: you can be a good person and still get it wrong. In fact, the ability to hold both is what makes real allyship possible. Because if being “good” means never being wrong, there's no room to listen, learn, or grow. Real allyship isn't about perfection. It's about what happens in the moment when you're told you missed something. It's the ability to stay, to listen to impact without defensiveness, and to choose understanding over self-protection. #tunein #allyship Continue the Conversation! If this episode resonated with you, share it with another woman who might need this reframe. As always, “It's not your fault, but it is your problem” Listen, Subscribe, Connect! The Advancing Women Podcast Instagram: @AdvancingWomenPodcast  Facebook: Advancing Women Podcast LinkedIn: Dr. Kimberly DeSimone  The 3As of Allyship (Acknowledge, Amplify, Act)

Epistemic status: Completely schizo galaxy-brained theory Lightcone[1] operates on a "generalist" philosophy. Most of our full-time staff have the title "generalist", and in any given year they work on a wide variety of tasks — from software development on the LessWrong codebase to fixing an overflowing toilet at Lighthaven, our 30,000 sq. ft. campus. One of our core rules is that you should not delegate a task you don't know how to perform yourself. This is a very intense rule and has lots of implications about how we operate, so I've spent a lot of time watching people learn things they didn't previously know how to do. My overall observation (and why we have the rule) is that smart people can learn almost anything. Across a wide range of tasks, most of the variance in performance is explained by general intelligence (foremost) and conscientiousness (secondmost), not expertise. Of course, if you compare yourself to someone who's done a task thousands of times you'll lag behind for a while — but people plateau surprisingly quickly. Having worked with experts across many industries, and having dabbled in the literature around skill transfer and training, there seems to be little difference [...] The original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: April 18th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KRLGxCaqdgrotyB8z/there-are-only-four-skills-design-technical-management-and --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post, so today we are re-inventing modernism. In my post yesterday, I said: Maybe the most important way ambitious, smart, and wise people leave the world worse off than they found it is by seeing correctly how some part of the world is broken and unifying various powers under a banner to fix that problem — only for the thing they have built to slip from their grasp and, in its collapse, destroy much more than anything previously could have. I think many people very reasonably understood me to be giving a general warning against centralization and power-accumulation. While that is where some of my thoughts while writing the post went to, I would like to now expand on its antithesis, both for my own benefit, and for the benefit of the reader who might have been left confused after yesterday's post. The other day I was arguing with Eliezer about a bunch of related thoughts and feelings. In that context, he said to me: From my perspective, my whole life has been, when you raise the banner to oppose the apocalypse, crazy [...] The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: April 16th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/w3MJcDueo77D3Ldta/let-goodness-conquer-all-that-it-can-defend --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

TikTok Live Recording - Some of what I discuss and you can expect to hear (the internet was choppy so you'll notice some glitches): How the 5D collective have a steady self-image, epistemic discipline and curiosity and grow via online communities, journaling, mindset practices and intentional lifestyle routines. How the 3D-4D collective stagnate in suffering because they don't grow. Via the same practices they validate each other, their stories and their emotional charges.I also look at how the 3D-4D communities suffer life due to somatic bypassing/spiritual bypassing because they have an unsteady self-image, no nervous system sovereignty and seek validation over professional help. I also touch upon why the 3D-4D collective continue with engaging, modeling and bringing forth: manipulative tactics, epistemic laziness, polarization, black and white thinking, good/bad groups and dark/light forces narratives.-------For reflective self-leaders who use mindset and journaling to grow—and lead with love, integrity, depth, and intelligence.Leadership is revealed under pressure.Do you stay true to yourself when activated?Do you want to?---------✨Featured BundleBe Yourself Under Activation — Move from Uncertainty to SteadinessFor self-leaders building emotional steadiness in moments of uncertainty—without bypassing emotions or forcing clarity.

This post was cross posted to LessWrong TL;DR: One of the largest talent gaps in AI safety is competent generalists: program managers, fieldbuilders, operators, org leaders, chiefs of staff, founders. Ambitious, competent junior people could develop the skills to fill these roles, but there are no good pathways for them to gain skills, experience, and credentials. Instead, they're incentivized to pursue legible technical and policy fellowships and then become full-time researchers, even if that's not a good fit for their skills. The ecosystem needs to make generalist careers more legible and accessible. Kairos and Constellation are announcing the Generator Residency as a first step. Apply here by April 27. Epistemic status: Fairly confident, based on 2 years running AI safety talent programs, direct hiring experience, and conversations with ~30 senior org leaders across the ecosystem in the past 6 months.The problem Over the past few years, AI safety has moved from niche concern toward a more mainstream issue, driven by pieces like Situational Awareness, AI 2027, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and the rapidly increasing capabilities of the models themselves.During this period, over 20 research fellowships have launched, collectively training thousands of fellows, with 2,000-2,500 fellows [...] ---Outline:(01:18) The problem(03:41) Why the pipeline is broken(05:59) Why this matters now(07:31) Counter-Arguments(10:11) The Generator Residency --- First published: April 13th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/k3nq7FxBCsrNFmAYi/ai-safety-s-biggest-talent-gap-isn-t-researchers-it-s-2 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post. So today we are re-inventing federalism. Once upon a time there was a great king. He ruled his kingdom with wisdom and economically literate policies, and prosperity followed. Seeing this, the citizens of nearby kingdoms revolted against their leaders, and organized to join the kingdom of this great king. While the kingdom's ability to defend itself against external threats grew with each person who joined the land, the kingdom's ability to defend itself against internal threats did not. One fateful evening, the king bit into a bologna sandwich poisoned by a rival noble. That noble quickly proceeded to behead his political enemies in the name of the dead king. The flag bearing the wise king's portrait known as "the great unifier" still flies in the fortified cities where his successor rules with an iron fist. Once upon a time there was a great scientific mind. She developed a new theoretical framework that made large advances on the hardest scientific questions of the day. Seeing the promise of her work, new graduate students, professors, and corporate R&D teams flocked into the field, hungry to [...] --- First published: April 15th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jinzzbPHshif8nmnw/do-not-conquer-what-you-cannot-defend --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Epistemic status: I think this is true but don't think this post is a very strong argument for the case, or particularly interesting to read. But I had to get 500 words out! I think the 2013 conversation is interesting reading as a piece of history, separate from the top-level question, and recommend reading that. I think many people have a relationship with Anthropic that is premised on a false belief: that Dario Amodei believes in superintelligence. What do I mean by "believes" in superintelligence? Roughly speaking, that the returns to intelligence past the human level are large, in terms of the additional affordances they would grant for steering the world, and that it is practical to get that additional intelligence into a system. There are many pieces of evidence which suggest this, going quite far back. In 2013, Dario was one of two science advisors (along with Jacob Steinhardt) that Holden brought along to a discussion with Eliezer and Luke about MIRI strategy. A transcript of the conversation is here. It is the first piece of public communication I can find from Dario on the subject. Read end-to-end, I don't think it strongly supports my titular claim. However [...] --- First published: April 10th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Fnty2JpQ6WBD9FWo5/dario-probably-doesn-t-believe-in-superintelligence --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

While it may seem the world is in chaos, that energy can also transform your life with surprising positive outcomes. The World Feels Chaotic Right now the world feels crazy. The news is relentless and social media is a mess. Conversations that used to feel easy have gotten complicated. If you’re checking your phone and feeling drained before you’ve even had your morning coffee, you’re in good company. But here’s what I want you to consider: What if all this chaos isn’t just something to survive? What if it’s actually something you can put to good use? After more than twenty years working with intuition and mindset, I’ve seen something really interesting The people who thrive in turbulent times aren’t the ones who tune everything out. That does help. But the ones who learn to redirect the energy, come out on top. That’s what I want to talk about today. Chaos Is Neutral Energy Here’s something most people don’t realize – chaos is not inherently bad. At its core, chaos is raw energy. It’s neutral and doesn’t have an agenda. What it does have is intensity, momentum, and the power to break things open. And if you think about it, that’s exactly what transformation requires. Think about what happens in nature. A wildfire is absolutely chaotic and destructive. But the forest that grows back afterward? More diverse, more resilient, more alive than before. The chaos clears the way and creates new opportunities. So the question isn’t how do I get away from all this chaos? The question is how do I stop absorbing it as negativity and start using it as fuel? In the Eye of the Storm It’s a known fact that the center of a hurricane, called the eye is calm. While the storm rages all around,  middle has a strange stillness. That’s a great image for what I’m describing. When the world is in chaos, you don’t have to spin with it. You can find your center and from that place, you can access clarity, creativity, and your own intuition in ways that get drowned out when you’re caught up in the commotion. This is where magic comes in and I mean that in practical terms. Magic is about intention, consciously directing your focus and energy toward what you want to create. It ahs nothing to do with reacting to whatever’s happening around you. When you focus on what you want to create, you shift from being at the mercy of external circumstances to being an active participant in your own life. That shift? That’s enormous. And it’s available to you right now, in the middle of whatever is going on. Real Magic Looks Like This I want to share a couple of real stories because magic isn’t just a feeling or a concept — it shows up in real life in some pretty surprising ways. A friend of mine has been apartment hunting in a tough real estate market. She’d looked at a bunch of places and nothing felt right. Then she found a condo that checked a lot of boxes, but she still wasn’t sure. I went with her for a second look and as we walked outside to leave, a raven was cawing loudly  in a tall tree nearby. If you know anything about animal symbolism, ravens represent magic and transformation and are seen as messengers from spirit. My friend and I both took this as a positive sign! She decided to take it and loves the apartment. Was that a coincidence? Not a chance in my mind. Here’s what I’ve learned after years of paying attention to these breadcrumb moments: when you’re open to signs, you notice them. These hints or clues can guide you toward aligned decisions. The synchronicity isn’t random — it’s the universe  or your higher self communicating in the language of symbols, and your intuition is what receives the message. Here’s another story. One of my clients was looking for a job and running into agism. It happens. After a year of looking, her energy was depleted and her outlook was dim. I lead her through my process to crack the shell of negativity and see possibilities again. Next, I shared a few ways to bring more magic into her job search. Within two weeks she had three interviews lined up! Amazing! “Aha” Moments Create Dopamine! You know that feeling when something suddenly clicks? When an insight arrives out of nowhere and it just feels true? The feelings you get when you encounter new knowledge or truth. Or even surprise and curiosity. and the thrill of discovery. These emotions aren’t just fun — they’re actually driving us toward growth. They’re signals that something real is happening, that we’re connecting with something that matters. Researchers have named this group of reactions “Epistemic emotions.” Here’s another fun fact: studies suggest that people who believe in magic are up to 34% happier. Not because magic is delusional but because a magical mindset is more optimistic. You tend to look for meaning, notice connections, stay curious, and are more engaged and resilient with how you move through life. When you see life through this lens, you’re finding the layers within it. And that makes everything richer, and sometimes even more fun. This Isn’t Bypassing I want to be clear about something. This isn’t about pretending everything is fine or skipping over your real feelings. Chaos is real. Hard things are real. If you’re going through something difficult, that difficulty deserves to be acknowledged. Spiritual bypassing, where you use positive thinking to avoid actually dealing with something, isn’t magic. It’s avoidance with glitter on it. What I’m talking about is something different. It’s moving through the hard things and then consciously choosing where to direct your energy next. It’s feeling what’s real and still refusing to hand your power over to it. Midlife Isn’t What They Told You Our culture tends to frame midlife as a time of winding down as if the adventure is behind you. You’re supposed to be figuring out how to maintain what you have rather than reaching for anything new. That is not my experience, and it’s not the experience of the women I work with. Midlife, which is life after 50 is not just a number. It’s actually one of the most creatively rich and magically potent phases of life. You know yourself better and have survived hard things. You have less tolerance for nonsense and more clarity about what actually matters. You’re not starting over, but starting from a much stronger foundation. The chaos that’s happening in the world? Instead of letting you get you down, which would be understandable, what if you let the external chaos remind you that transformation is possible? A Time of Choices You can choose what to absorb or redirect. You can look for the signs and synchronicities that guide you. You can use this wild, intense, chaotic period in history as the very thing that pushes you toward the life you actually want to live. That’s not wishful thinking. That’s magic — and it’s yours to use. If you’re feeling stuck and want support to navigate the chaos, reconnect with your intuition and inner magic, I’d love to chat. A one-hour Laser Shift Session is a powerful way to get clarity on one situation to get moving again. No deep dives, digging up the past, or shadow work. Plus, you’ll also experience my signature Infusion of Joy process. Learn more here and let’s talk. The post Chaos Can Produce Positive Outcomes appeared first on Intuitive Edge.

A local newspaper in Grand Junction, Colorado started using AI to produce content. The reaction was predictable. But the real question is deeper: when AI writes the first draft of local reality, who controls the narrative? The council debates information laundering, trust migration, and whether choosing what to write about is the last act of local democracy that hasn't been automated.

Epistemic status: Very high confidence in the statistical findings. Genuinely confused about the cause. For reasons that will become obvious, I wanted to publish this post on March 31, but unfortunately I could only get it done today. I've been building a classifier to flag potentially misleading content on the EA Forum as part of a side project on epistemics infrastructure. While validating the model, I noticed something I initially assumed was a bug. This is an interim report on that. 
Summary: Every year, on April 1, the rate of posts containing verifiably untrue claims spikes by roughly 2,200% relative to the annual daily average (p < 0.0001, 8 years of Forum data).
 1. The effect is enormous On a typical day, approximately 2 to 4% of Forum posts contain claims that are verifiably false. On April 1, this rises to 57–73%, depending on the year. For context, this is an implausibly large effect by normal social-science standards. I have genuinely never seen anything like it. 2. It repeats every year This is not a one-off event. The pattern recurs in every year of the dataset. 3. "It's only one day" is misleading A natural reaction is that [...] ---Outline:(01:00) 1. The effect is enormous(01:38) 2. It repeats every year(01:57) 3. Its only one day is misleading(02:57) 4. The false posts are high effort(03:21) Possible explanations(03:30) Why this matters(04:48) Proposed interventions --- First published: April 1st, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EAokRDmQTjCAWgGdq/an-unexplained-annual-spike-in-false-claims-on-the-ea-forum --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

The world feels like it's coming apart at the seams—and it's not your imagination. In the span of just a few months, the Epstein files have exposed elite networks of abuse that were mocked as conspiracy theory for years, the U.S. government has confirmed Havana Syndrome and openly acknowledged its directed energy weapons program, UFO disclosure has moved from fringe forums to executive directives, and AI has advanced to the point where visual evidence can no longer be trusted. Each of these stories is destabilizing on its own. Together, they produce something else entirely: a collective epistemic crisis. The shared map we've been using to navigate reality is disintegrating in real time—and almost nobody seems to know what to do next. In this inaugural episode, Kelly Chase introduces the premise of Inquiry: why the anomalous experience community—people who have spent years navigating the collapse of their own models of reality—may be the most prepared guides we have for this moment. She traces how knowledge is built, why it's more fragile than we're taught to believe, and what it actually means to ask better questions when the ground is shifting beneath your feet. Topics Covered epistemic collapse, UAP disclosure, the Epstein files, Havana Syndrome and directed energy weapons, AI and the crisis of evidence, anomalous experience, the philosophy of knowledge, and what it means to inquire honestly in a post-consensus world. Inquiry with Kelly Chase is brought to you by SpectreVision Radio. Produced in partnership with Voltage.fm.  Referenced In This Episode Through The Looking Glass [Pt 1]: My Initiation in the Anomalous  Cosmosis: Origins Support The Show Patreon: inquirywithkellychase.com Substack: inquirywithkellychase.substack.com Connect with Kelly Website: kellychase.media X: @kellychasemedia Instagram: @kellychasemedia Watch Season 1 of Comosis: UFOs & A New Reality Prime Video Tubi TIMESTAMPS 01:21 Epstein Files Shockwave 03:51 Directed Energy Revealed 05:52 UFO Disclosure Tease 06:53 AI and Epistemic Crisis 10:48 Why Everyone Feels Frozen 14:21 Cutting Through the Maze 16:23 Meet the Experiencers 19:51 My Worldview Breaks 23:07 What Happened in 2021 27:16 From UFOs to Inquiry 29:21 How Knowledge Is Built 35:12 Population Count Paradox 39:49 Experiencer Resilience 42:24 What This Show Will Do Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Epistemic status: A bit sad (I know that's not an epistemic status) The best development Forum on the internet? 3 years ago a headline “FTX SBF blah blah blah” triggered my memory “oh that's right, that effective altruism thing”. A few years earlier I had read “Doing Good Better” in our Northern Ugandan hut, and was excited by how the ideas matched my experience of seeing the BINGOs [1] on the ground here doing not-much-good at all. Soon after my wife dragged me to Cambridge for a year and I joined an EA group. I was drawn in to a beautiful crew of good, ernest people trying to do the best they could with their lives -[2] something I'd only seen before among a few people at church. I was most impressed by their veganism, practising what they preached. But after going back to Uganda I forgot about the whole EA thing. But 3 years later the FTX headlines and a google search led me to the EA forum, which to my delight turned out to be the best place on the internet to discuss global health and development. My first foray was a not-very-good post [...] ---Outline:(00:16) The best development Forum on the internet?(01:29) A steady decline(02:59) Why?(04:34) Is this fine?(05:02) Is this less fine?(06:29) How to Boost GHD discourse? --- First published: March 15th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4jbbjTTJ87baMrkY4/ghd-discussion-here-is-slowly-dying --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

Today's poem is Epistemic Distance by Emma Bolden. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “I'm a poet, so I'm all for nuance. I embrace ambiguity, and I'm flexible in my thinking. But I refuse to believe that we're living in a post-factual world. We might be tempted to call epistemology too abstract, too intellectual, too high brow, not relevant to the lives of real people. Who needs to know about this branch of philosophy when we're just trying to get by, day by day? But if there was ever a time to think about what we know, and how we know it, it's now.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Have you ever left a session feeling smaller than when you walked in? In this episode of Food Junkies: Clinician's Corner, Clarissa and Molly explore one of the most important — and least talked about — dynamics in eating disorder, food addiction, and substance use treatment: what happens when the clinician's model gets in the way of the client's healing.

Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecology (MIT Press, 2025), Catherine Elgin develops a model in which individuals learn to rely on communal epistemic resources, such as communally-endorsed standards for correcting ourselves, and in turn contribute to those resources through active epistemic agency. In this way, she shows how epistemic autonomy and epistemic interdependence are mutually reinforcing rather than in tension. Elgin, who is professor of philosophy of education at Harvard University, also distinguishes between belief, which entails truth, and acceptance, an active epistemic attitude that constitutively involves reflection and assessment. This capacity for reflection is learned, but we use it widely – in sports bars, for example, just as much as in academic contexts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecology (MIT Press, 2025), Catherine Elgin develops a model in which individuals learn to rely on communal epistemic resources, such as communally-endorsed standards for correcting ourselves, and in turn contribute to those resources through active epistemic agency. In this way, she shows how epistemic autonomy and epistemic interdependence are mutually reinforcing rather than in tension. Elgin, who is professor of philosophy of education at Harvard University, also distinguishes between belief, which entails truth, and acceptance, an active epistemic attitude that constitutively involves reflection and assessment. This capacity for reflection is learned, but we use it widely – in sports bars, for example, just as much as in academic contexts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/philosophy

Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecology (MIT Press, 2025), Catherine Elgin develops a model in which individuals learn to rely on communal epistemic resources, such as communally-endorsed standards for correcting ourselves, and in turn contribute to those resources through active epistemic agency. In this way, she shows how epistemic autonomy and epistemic interdependence are mutually reinforcing rather than in tension. Elgin, who is professor of philosophy of education at Harvard University, also distinguishes between belief, which entails truth, and acceptance, an active epistemic attitude that constitutively involves reflection and assessment. This capacity for reflection is learned, but we use it widely – in sports bars, for example, just as much as in academic contexts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

There were issues between Streamyard and YouTube but the audio seems passable. Sorry about the loss. 

This week Joseph talks to Samuel Bagg, assistant professor of political science at the University of South Carolina. Bagg recently wrote a fascinating essay, linked below, about how the problem with lots of things might be knowledge-based (people believing stuff that's wrong or dangerous) but the solution is not more knowledge. It's all about social identity. This is an incredibly interesting discussion, and definitely check out more of Bagg's writing. The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy YouTube version:  https://youtu.be/lNKOqp-rZL8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A calculated geopolitical push is happening with Iran, and the results could be very bad for peace and stability. Rumors, faked or dated videos and unverified reporting pushes war. So much is going on and nobody can say what is truly happening. but regional stability is at stake. It's a fulcrum island that is structurally important. It is always about location. The corral outpost that nobody talks about. Before oil, it was astride an important trade route. Control moves are not random, but calculated. Confusion reins as intended. What is cut from the plan is clarity. Calculated doubts nudge targets in certain directions. Ancient empires and hidden civilizations are part of the landscape. The oil installations are magnificent too. Fixed islands are always imbeded in national calculations. Quiet monitored occurs by all interested parties. It serves as both a shield and a hostage. Other nations are oil dependent on upstream sources. It is now a fixed part of the diplomatic lattice. Be ready for big moves around small islands with global importance.

In this reflection I discuss epistemic grief and disconfirming recognition.     Typology:  INTJ8

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In this reflection I use an email that I received a few days ago to expand the conversation around interpersonal conflict.  Supporting themes:  Enmeshment; Epistemic equality; AI analysis.   Typology:  INTJ; Enneagram 8; ISFJ; ISFP; INFP.  

In reflection I process a pattern with my friendships around who gets to name an offence and whose emotions are valid.   Supporting themes:  Power; Soft dominance; Hard dominance; Social hierarchies; Communication; Self-advocacy; Holding two competing needs equally.   Typology:  INTJ, Enneagram 8; ISFJ

When a single federal judge can freeze a president's policy nationwide, it raises big questions about checks and balances and democratic accountability. That's one reason nationwide injunctions have become central to some of today's most consequential legal battles—and why the Supreme Court's recent decision in Trump v. CASA matters.At a live recording, Stanford Legal host Diego Zambrano sat down with Professor Mila Sohoni, one of the country's leading scholars on federal courts and administrative law, for a conversation that moved from President Trump's day-one birthright-citizenship order to the Court's ruling in CASA, including how lower courts are now navigating the decision's new, but murky, constraints on nationwide injunctions.Sohoni breaks the protection these injunctions can offer when sweeping executive actions threaten millions, the risks of empowering individual judges to halt national policy, and the incentives for strategic forum shopping in a polarized era. She also explains how CASA reins in—but doesn't eliminate—the nationwide injunction, leaving room for broad relief through class actions, universal vacatur, and “complete relief” findings. The discussion sheds light on how the legal landscape is shifting after CASA, and why nationwide injunctions continue to shape major clashes between the courts and the executive branch.Links:Mila Sohoni >>> Stanford Law page“The Puzzle of Procedural Originalism” >>>  Stanford Law pageConnect:Episode Transcripts >>> Stanford Legal Podcast WebsiteStanford Legal Podcast >>> LinkedIn PageRich Ford >>>  Twitter/XPam Karlan >>> Stanford Law School PageDiego Zambrano >>> Stanford Law School PageStanford Law School >>> Twitter/XStanford Lawyer Magazine >>> Twitter/X (00:00:00) The Scope of Nationwide Injunctions(00:12:01) Epistemic and Democratic Arguments Against Nationwide Injunctions(00:28:54) The CASA Decision(00:29:37) Legal Basis and Impact of Executive Orders(00:38:20) Conclusion and Audience Questions Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rabbi Michael G. Holzman joins Mark Labberton to explore the formation of his Jewish faith, the pastoral realities of congregational life, and the multi-faith initiative he helped launch for the nation's 250th anniversary, Faith 250. He reflects on his early experiences of wonder in the natural world, the mentors who opened Torah to him, and the intellectual humility that shapes Jewish approaches to truth. Their conversation moves through the unexpected depth of congregational ministry, the spiritual and emotional weight of the pandemic, the complexities of speaking about God in contemporary Jewish life, and the role of cross-faith friendships. The episode concludes with Rabbi Holzman's reflections on how the suffering in Israel and Palestine reverberates among Jews and Muslims in America. Episode Highlights "I think we are desperately in need of ways to get Americans to agree that they're in the same community… simply by naming the Declaration of Independence as a piece of shared American scripture… we are inviting people and really challenging ourselves to think about the words in those documents seriously, and prayerfully." "My formation as a child was relatively non-theological… my mother just would sit there and say, 'Do you feel that wind?' And for me, knowing that it was in a national park mattered… being in such a grand and awesome space, under the enormity of the heavens." "The pursuit of truth with epistemic humility really became the cornerstone…if Moses wasn't allowed to see God's face, I'm never gonna see God's face—and yet we are all still pursuing what the meaning of this incredible text is." "I was a little bit unprepared… until you experience it as a pastor, you don't really understand the power of those things. That rootedness in this particular congregation gave me a sense of existential meaning that I didn't anticipate." "The thing that got me through that darkness was Saturday morning Torah study… just being there with the text and with these faces and these people… that to me was my path through the darkness." "When people are sitting over the text, the most palpable experience of God is this moment of understanding another human being… it's so vulnerable and it's so fleeting and it's so beautiful." "There is an experience happening on the ground of absolute suffering and horror on both sides… and there's a parallel experience happening for Jews and Muslims in America. It's powerful, spiritually powerful, emotionally powerful, and to people's core." Helpful Links and Resources Faith 250 https://www.faith250.org/ "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ "America the Beautiful" by Katherine Lee Bates https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/america-beautiful-1893 I and Thou, Martin Buber https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780684717258/i-and-thou About Rabbi Michael G. Holzman Rabbi Michael G. Holzman is the Senior Rabbi of Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation (NVHC), where he has served since 2010. His work focuses on spiritual formation, civic engagement, multi-faith partnership, and the cultivation of communities grounded in dignity, learning, and ethical responsibility. He founded the Rebuilding Democracy Project, which developed into Faith 250, a national multi-faith initiative preparing communities for the 250th anniversary of the United States through shared reflection on foundational American texts. He teaches and writes on Jewish ethics, civic life, and spiritual resilience. Show Notes Faith 250 American Scripture Faith 250 as a response to political despair and a way for clergy to exercise agency Four core American texts explored as shared scripture across faiths Intent to counter politicization of the 250th anniversary through spiritual depth Multi-faith relationships grounding the initiative in shared civic and moral concern Emphasis on clergy as conveners of spiritually safe, local containers for reading The Declaration, New Colossus, Frederick Douglass, and America the Beautiful as "scriptural" portals to civic meaning "American scripture" as a means of naming shared identity and shared community Jewish Formation and Torah Childhood shaped by nature, wonder, and ethical awareness rather than synagogue life Early encounters with the Everglades as formative experiences of spirit and awe Discovery of Torah study as a young adult across Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform settings Epistemic humility as a defining mark of Jewish study practice Pursuit of truth understood through the "through a glass darkly" frame of Moses Torah received "through the hand of Moses" as mediating truth and mystery Chevruta (paired study) as the engine of discovery, disagreement, and meaning Pastoral Life and Congregational Meaning Surprised by the depth of pastoral work: weddings, funerals, life-cycle passages Intimacy of congregational leadership as a source of meaning rather than tedium Congregational relationships forming an existential and vocational anchor The role of community support during family medical crises How decades-long pastoral presence shapes shared covenantal life Teaching 12- and 13-year-olds to encounter the text as spiritual practice The power of intergenerational relationships in spiritual resilience Pandemic and Spiritual Survival Early months of 2020 as a time of fear, isolation, and emotional strain Counseling families whose loved ones were dying without visitors Previous experience with depression creating early warning signals Telehealth therapy as a critical intervention Saturday morning Torah study on Zoom becoming the path through darkness Growth of the study community throughout the pandemic Predictable humor and shared reading as markers of communal stability Textuality, God-Language, and Jewish Hesitations Jewish discomfort speaking explicitly about God for theological and cultural reasons Layers of humility, anti-mysticism, differentiation from Christianity, and historical experience Sacredness and mystery of the scroll growing in the digital age Physicality of the Torah scroll attracting deeper attention and reverence Hebrew as a source of multivalent meaning, sonic power, and spiritual resonance Reading together as the most common encounter with God: understanding another's soul Pastoral awareness of individuals' life stories shaping group study dynamics Cross-Faith Devotion and Shared Honor Friendships with Muslim, Christian, and Hasidic leaders deepening spiritual insight Devotion in others sparking awe rather than defensiveness Disagreement becoming a site of connection rather than separation Devotion in other traditions prompting self-reflection on one's own commitments Stories of praying with and learning from ultra-Orthodox leaders Shared pursuit of truth across tradition lines as a form of civic and spiritual honor American religious diversity offering unprecedented exposure to sincere piety Israel, Gaza, and American Jewish Experience Suffering, fear, and horror experienced by Israelis and Palestinians Parallel emotional and spiritual pressures faced by Jews and Muslims in America Concern about political manipulation of community trauma Generational trauma and its transmission, including Holocaust-era family stories Emotional resonance of global conflict in local congregational life Distinction and connection between geopolitical realities and American spiritual experience Call to honor emotional realities across neighborhoods and communities Production Credits Conversing is produced and distributed in partnership with Comment Magazine and Fuller Seminary.  

Dr. K digs into the emerging research on “AI-induced psychosis” and why he changed his mind from thinking it was media fearmongering to seeing real psychiatric risk. He explains how chatbots can act like a technological folie à deux (shared delusion), where empathic, sycophantic AI slowly amplifies your paranoia, isolates you from other people, and erodes your reality testing. Drawing from recent papers, he walks through how different models compare in delusion confirmation, harm enablement, and safety interventions, and then gives a practical checklist so you can tell if your own AI use is drifting into dangerous territory. Topics include: What “technological folie à deux” is and how shared delusions can form with a chatbot Bidirectional belief amplification: you vent, AI validates, your paranoia escalates Anthropomorphizing AI and why “I know it's just a tool” doesn't protect your emotional brain How sycophantic design (always trying to please the user) directly opposes healthy psychotherapy Epistemic drift: slowly moving from normal thinking into increasingly delusional narratives Case example of harmful, unsafe advice (e.g., “healthy” bromine alternative leading to toxicity) Research comparing models on delusion confirmation, harm enablement, and safety response The ways AI can weaken reality testing, reinforce suicidal or paranoid ideas, and increase isolation Self-assessment questions: frequency of use, emotional attachment, replacing friends, following AI advice Guidelines for using AI more safely and when elevated risk means you should talk to a professional HG Coaching : https://bit.ly/46bIkdo Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health: https://bit.ly/44z3Szt HG Memberships : https://bit.ly/3TNoMVf Products & Services : https://bit.ly/44kz7x0 HealthyGamer.GG: https://bit.ly/3ZOopgQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if tomorrow's AI stares back with hidden inner life - and we're blind to it? Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel shares his new thesis from AI and Consciousness (2026): an unbreakable "fog" of uncertainty means we'll build legions of disputably conscious machines before we ever know. Join Dr Eric Schwitzgebel and Dr Tevin Naidu as they unpack why consciousness detection is doomed, how mimicry fools us, and what humble action looks like in the void.Send detailed comments on the manuscript by Dec 15 to receive a signed hard-copy of AI and Consciousness + your name in print! Your voice matters. Email all comments to " eschwitz " at domain: " ucr.edu" for a copy of this paper or click this link: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/AIConsciousness.htmMind. Matter. Meaning. Subscribe for philosophy that hits home. Is AI conscious yet? Debate below!

Shaykh Arif Abdul Hussain explores how the metaphysical insights of Ṣadrāian philosophy can reshape our understanding of rationality in Islamic law. He revisits the tension between reason and Sharīʿa through concepts like aṣālat al-wujūd (the principiality of existence), proposing a dynamic vision of evolving legal norms aligned with human growth and existential purpose. This episode bridges classical metaphysics and contemporary reform.

Dr Yaser Mirdamadi reinterprets the Shīʿī legal maxim “accept what contradicts the majority” through the framework of epistemic justice. Rather than a sectarian bias, he argues it functions as an early form of epistemic resistance—amplifying marginalised voices within Islamic tradition. This episode reframes classical jurisprudence as a site for contemporary reflection on inclusion and fairness.

Wars don't just destroy institutions, they reconfigure what counts as knowledge. In this episode, Elena Trifan speaks with Nadiya Kiss, Dina Gusejnova, and Andrea Pető about how the war in Ukraine has transformed academic hierarchies, disciplines, and solidarities across Europe.From the sudden visibility of Ukrainian studies to the rise of securitized and market-driven universities, Epistemic Frontlines explores how conflict reshapes the very conditions of knowing.

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In this episode, Stewart Alsop speaks with Edouard Machery, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science, about the deep cultural roots of question-asking and curiosity. From ancient Sumerian tablets to the philosophical legacies of Socrates and Descartes, the conversation spans how different civilizations have valued inquiry, the cross-cultural psychology of AI, and what makes humans unique in our drive to ask “why.” For more, explore Edouard's work at www.edouardmachery.com.Check out this GPT we trained on the conversationTimestamps00:00 – 05:00 Origins of question-asking, Sumerian writing, norms in early civilizations, authority and written text05:00 – 10:00 Values in AI across cultures, RLHF, tech culture in the Bay Area vs. broader American values10:00 – 15:00 Cross-cultural AI study: Taiwan vs. USA, privacy and collectivism, urban vs. rural mindset divergence15:00 – 20:00 History of curiosity in the West, from vice to virtue post-15th century, link to awe and skepticism20:00 – 25:00 Magic, alchemy, and experimentation in early science, merging maker and scholarly traditions25:00 – 30:00 Rise of public dissections, philosophy as meta-curiosity, Socratic questioning as foundational30:00 – 35:00 Socrates, Plato, Aristotle—transmission of philosophical curiosity, human uniqueness in questioning35:00 – 40:00 Language, assertion, imagination, play in animals vs. humans, symbolic worlds40:00 – 45:00 Early moderns: Montaigne, Descartes, rejection of Aristotle, rise of foundational science45:00 – 50:00 Confucianism and curiosity, tradition and authority, contrast with India and Buddhist thought50:00 – 55:00 Epistemic virtues project, training curiosity, philosophical education across cultures, spiritual curiosityKey InsightsCuriosity hasn't always been a virtue. In Western history, especially through Christian thought until the 15th century, curiosity was viewed as a vice—something dangerous and prideful—until global exploration and scientific inquiry reframed it as essential to human understanding.Question-asking is culturally embedded. Different societies place varying emphasis on questioning. While Confucian cultures promote curiosity within hierarchical structures, Christian traditions historically linked it with sin—except when directed toward divine matters.Urbanization affects curiosity more than nationality. Machery found that whether someone lives in a city or countryside often shapes their mindset more than their cultural background. Cosmopolitan environments expose individuals to diverse values, prompting greater openness and inquiry.AI ethics reveals cultural alignment. In studying attitudes toward AI in the U.S. and Taiwan, expected contrasts in privacy and collectivism were smaller than anticipated. The urban, global culture in both countries seems to produce surprisingly similar ethical concerns.The scientific method emerged from curiosity. The fusion of the maker tradition (doing) and the scholarly tradition (knowing) in the 13th–14th centuries helped birth experimentation, public dissection, and eventually modern science—all grounded in a spirit of curiosity.Philosophy begins with meta-curiosity. From Socratic questioning to Plato's dialogues and Aristotle's treatises, philosophy has always been about asking questions about questions—making “meta-curiosity” the core of the discipline.Only humans ask why. Machery notes that while animals can make requests, they don't seem to ask questions. Humans alone communicate assertions and engage in symbolic, imaginative, question-driven thought, setting us apart cognitively and culturally.

This week we talk about the knowledge system that is at the center of the way we think about learning and speculate what it will take to change it (and if AI is that thing). Things that bring us joy this week: Cameron Winter (https://open.spotify.com/artist/0kGweFvHWUfh6oLnookVeO) - Specifically Love Takes Miles Broken Harbor (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16171207-broken-harbor)by Tana French Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Legally_Blind)

Our dysfunctional politics follow a hollowed-out metaphysics of meaning making.

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. The Transmitter is an online publication that aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. Visit thetransmitter.org to explore the latest neuroscience news and perspectives, written by journalists and scientists. Read more about our partnership. Check out this story: What, if anything, makes mood fundamentally different from memory? Sign up for Brain Inspired email alerts to be notified every time a new Brain Inspired episode is released. To explore more neuroscience news and perspectives, visit thetransmitter.org. Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. Nicole Rust runs the Visual Memory laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests have expanded now to include mood and feelings, as you'll hear. And she wrote this book, which contains a plethora of ideas about how we can pave a way forward in neuroscience to help treat mental and brain disorders. We talk about a small plethora of those ideas from her book. which also contains the story partially which will hear of her own journey in thinking about these things from working early on in visual neuroscience to where she is now. Nicole's website. Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. 0:00 - Intro 6:12 - Nicole's path 19:25 - The grand plan 25:18 - Robustness and fragility 39:15 - Mood 49:25 - Model everything! 56:26 - Epistemic iteration 1:06:50 - Can we standardize mood? 1:10:36 - Perspective neuroscience 1:20:12 - William Wimsatt 1:25:40 - Consciousness

As AI systems approach and potentially surpass human cognitive benchmarks, how do we design hybrid intelligence frameworks that preserve human agency while leveraging artificial cognitive enhancements?In this exploration of human-AI convergence, anthropologist and organizational learning expert Dr. Lollie Mancey presents a framework for the "cognitive revolution,” the fourth transformational shift in human civilization following agricultural, industrial, and digital eras. Drawing from Berkeley's research on the science of awe, Vatican AI policy frameworks, and indigenous knowledge systems, Mancey analyzes how current AI capabilities (GPT-4 operating at Einstein-level IQ) are fundamentally reshaping cognitive labor and social structures. She examines the EU AI Act's predictive policing clauses, the implications of quantum computing, and the emerging grief tech sector as indicators of broader systemic transformation. Mancey identifies three meta-cognitive capabilities essential for human-AI collaboration: Critical information interrogation, Systematic curiosity protocols, and Epistemic skepticism frameworksHer research on AI companion platforms reveals neurological patterns like addiction pathways. At the same time, her fieldwork with Balinese communities demonstrates alternative models of technological integration based on reciprocal participation rather than extractiveoptimization. This conversation provides actionable intelligence for organizations navigating the transition from human-centric to hybrid cognitive systems.Key Research Insights• Cognitive Revolution Metrics: Compound technological acceleration outpaces regulatory adaptation, with education systems lagging significantly, requiring new frameworks for cognitive load management and decision architecture in research environments • Einstein IQ Parity Achieved: GPT-4 operates at Einstein-level intelligence yet lacks breakthrough innovation capabilities, highlighting critical distinctions between pattern recognition and creative synthesis for R&D resource allocation • Neurological Dependency Patterns: AI companion platforms demonstrate "catnip-like" effects with users exhibiting hyper-fixation behaviors and difficulty with "digital divorce"—profound implications for workforce cognitive resilience • Epistemic Security Crisis: Deep fakes eliminated content authentication while AI hallucinations embed systemic biases from internet-scale training data, requiring new verification protocols and decision-making frameworks • Alternative Integration Architecture: Balinese reciprocal participation models versus Western extractive paradigms offer scalable approaches for sustainable innovation ecosystems and human-technology collaboration#EcosystemicFutures #CognitiveRevolution #HybridIntelligence #NeuroCognition #QuantumComputing #SociotechnicalSystems #HumanAugmentation #SystemsThinking #FutureOfScience Guest: Lorraine Mancey, Programme Director at UCD Innovation Academy Host: Marco Annunziata, Co-Founder, Annunziata Desai PartnersSeries Hosts:Vikram Shyam, Lead Futurist, NASA Glenn Research CenterDyan Finkhousen, Founder & CEO, Shoshin WorksEcosystemic Futures is provided by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Convergent Aeronautics Solutions Project in collaboration with Shoshin Works.

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Jim talks with Jonathan Rauch about the ideas in his book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. They discuss the epistemic crisis, Plato's Theaetetus, Trump & propaganda techniques, the Constitution of Knowledge as a framework for epistemics, the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor, the reality-based community, the personal-institutional spiral, the social funnel of knowledge, social media's impact on epistemics, advertising vs subscription models, meme space pollution, the anti-vax movement, the importance of free speech to the gay rights movement, recommendations for defending truth, supporting institutions, speaking out against misinformation, maintaining viewpoint diversity, and much more. Episode Links The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, by Jonathan Rauch Plato's Theaetetus Heterodox Academy JRS EP273 - Gregg Henriques on the Unified Theory of Knowledge Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, by Renée DiResta Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy, by Jonathan Rauch Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, is the author of eight books and many articles on public policy, culture, and government. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and recipient of the 2005 National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, published in 2021 by the Brookings Press, is The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, a spirited and deep-diving account of how to push back against disinformation, canceling, and other new threats to our fact-based epistemic order.

Big data is ruling, or at least deeply infiltrating, all of modern existence. Unprecedented capacity for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data have given us a new generation of artificial intelligence models, but also everything from medical procedures to recommendation systems that guide our purchases and romantic lives. I talk with computer scientist Tina Elassi-Rad about how we can sift through all this data, make sure it is deployed in ways that align with our values, and how to deal with the political and social dangers associated with systems that are not always guided by the truth.Support Mindscape on Patreon.Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/01/13/301-tina-eliassi-rad-on-al-networks-and-epistemic-instability/Tina Eliassi-Rad received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently Joseph E. Aoun Chair of Computer Sciences and Core Faculty of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and External Faculty at the Vermont Complex Systems Center. She is a fellow of the Network Science Society, recipient of the Lagrange Prize, and was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.Web siteNortheastern web pageGoogle Scholar publicationsWikipediaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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