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 ...
21 Apr 5min
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, whi...
19 Apr 5min
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 W...
16 Apr 7min
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...
15 Apr 52min
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
