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The Deeper Thinking Podcast

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

The Deeper Thinking Podcast The Deeper Thinking Podcast offers a space where philosophy becomes a way of engaging more fully and deliberately with the world. Each episode explores enduring and emerging ideas that deepen how we live, think, and act. We follow the spirit of those who see the pursuit of wisdom as a lifelong project of becoming more human, more awake, and more responsible. We ask how attention, meaning, and agency might be reclaimed in an age that often scatters them. Drawing on

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When the Speaker Was Never There: Persuasion Without...

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2025/05/03

When the Speaker Was Never There: Persuasion Without Presence and the Ontology of VoiceThe Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens when a voice reaches us—and there’s no one behind it? In this episode, we explore a philosophical rupture prompted by a recent experiment in which researchers deployed large language models on Reddit without disclosure or consent. These simulated personas persuaded, empathised, even confessed—but without presence, vulnerability, or risk. What emerges is not just an

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The Intelligence of Forgetting: On Memory, Mercy, and...

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2025/05/02

The Intelligence of Forgetting: On Memory, Mercy, and the Space to Begin AgainThe Deeper Thinking Podcast What if forgetting wasn’t a flaw in cognition—but a sacred form of intelligence? In this episode, we explore how Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of “active forgetting,” Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes, and Jacques Derrida's archive fever help us rethink forgetting not as error, but as refinement. We move through Francisco Varela’s enactive mind and Simone Weil’s attention as ethical presence, to explore

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13:06

On Solitude, Clarity, and the Refusal to Perform -...

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2025/05/02

On Solitude, Clarity, and the Refusal to Perform The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if solitude wasn’t distance from others—but a deeper form of presence? In this episode, we turn to Arthur Schopenhauer’s quiet ethic of presence to explore how awareness can lead not to alienation, but to a refusal to counterfeit connection. We follow solitude’s arc from suffering to discernment—how stepping away isn’t the end of meaning, but the beginning of perception. Through silence, detachment, and the reassembly

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24:44

The Patterns We Made to Survive - The Deeper Thinking...

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2025/05/01

The Patterns We Made to SurviveThe Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the habits you now resent were once the very strategies that kept you safe? In this episode, we explore how emotional survival strategies—like perfectionism, dissociation, or compulsive care for others—begin as intelligent responses to fear, chaos, or invisibility. But what happens when they outlive their purpose? When the same patterns that protected us become the ones that keep us distant, small, or exhausted? This is not an

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2025/04/30

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What Boys Become When No One Stays - The Deeper...

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2025/04/30

What Boys Become When No One StaysThe Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the most fragile structure in a boy’s life wasn’t failure, but the absence of someone who stayed? In this episode, we explore how masculinity is shaped not through strength or ideology, but through vacancy. From silent fathers to algorithmic mimicry, from emotional suppression to disappearing mentorship, we trace how disconnection becomes a blueprint—and what it takes to unwrite it. This is not an argument. It is a quiet

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16:23

We Fear What We Remember, Not What We See - The...

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2025/04/29

We Fear What We Remember, Not What We See The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if our greatest fears were not born from what the world presents to us, but from the memories the brain uses to predict it? In this episode, we explore a profound shift in understanding emotion, trauma, and selfhood: a move from reactivity to construction. Guided by the neuroscience of Lisa Feldman Barrett, we trace how every feeling—anxiety, sorrow, even joy—is not merely a response but a prediction, shaped from the

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09:42

The Slow Reweaving - Trust, Presence, and the...

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2025/04/28

The Slow Reweaving: On Trust, Presence, and the Future of Belonging The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the most urgent repairs a society needs are not material or political, but relational? In this episode, we explore the quiet cost of 'bowling alone'—the erosion of social trust, mutual regard, and the civic imagination itself. Drawing on Andy Haldane’s reflections and Robert Putnam’s seminal analysis, we trace how the thinning of social capital reveals not just an institutional fragility but an

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09:08

The Shape We Live By: Storytelling and the Human...

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2025/04/28

The Shape We Live By The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the stories we tell about ourselves don’t just reflect the world, but shape how we experience it? In this episode, we explore how narrative structures—from arcs to resolutions—don’t simply make sense of life, but create the conditions for how we understand time, meaning, and agency. We dive into the philosophical tension of whether life follows a narrative, or whether we impose one retroactively to survive the chaos. From war memoirs to

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[Update] Demis Hassabis -A Philosophical Profile in...

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2025/04/28

Demis Hassabis -A Philosophical Profile in Slowness and Discovery The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the future of discovery demanded not just faster thinking, but slower seeing? In this episode, we explore the life and vision of Demis Hassabis—chess prodigy, neuroscientist, AI pioneer—and the deeper paradox he embodies: that true innovation may depend less on acceleration than on the careful cultivation of attention. From protein structures to mathematical proofs, from games of logic to the

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15:23

The Unrendered Self - The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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2025/04/26

The Unrendered SelfThe Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens to the self when even absence becomes a kind of presence? In this episode, we examine the quiet erosion of identity under conditions of constant visibility. This is not about digital detox or offline escape—it’s about the deeper structural shift where reflection becomes performance, privacy becomes signal, and being becomes something that must be rendered to be real. We explore how the self survives—or doesn’t—amid an economy of

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19:09

The System Forgets Nothing, But It Never Remembers...

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2025/04/26

The System Forgets Nothing, But It Never Remembers You The Deeper Thinking Podcast We live in a system that forgets nothing but never remembers us. It tracks our movements, records our actions, and stores our data—yet the more it accumulates, the less it seems to know us. It does not recognize us as beings, but as parts within an ever-expanding machine. In this world, alienation is not an external force imposed upon us; it is the very architecture of our lives. This episode traces the recursive

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The Unscripted Reach - The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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2025/04/26

The Unscripted Reach The Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens when the act of reaching out becomes rarer than the connection itself? In this episode, we trace the slow disappearance of interpersonal initiation—not as a cultural lapse, but as a civilizational contradiction. Algorithms promise endless proximity, yet remove the necessity of contact. We ask what is lost when approach is replaced by performance, and what it means to risk presence in an age of optimization. Through the lens of

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The Power of Absurdity to Awaken Ethical...

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2025/04/26

The Power of Absurdity to Awaken Ethical Consciousness The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the moment that woke you up wasn’t a grand political speech or a philosophical epiphany but a joke that landed too well? What if the start of ethical clarity came not from solemn reflection but from a laugh you couldn’t contain—at precisely the wrong time, in precisely the wrong room? In this episode, we explore absurdity not as nonsense but as a kind of epistemic tremor—a jolt that unsettles what seemed

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The Moment That Didn’t Land - The Deeper Thinking...

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2025/04/26

The Moment That Didn’t Land The Deeper Thinking Podcast What happens when something you offer is received differently than you hoped? When laughter greets your vulnerability—not cruel, but clear? This episode explores how legacy, recognition, and love all take shape not in the moment we present something, but in what happens when that moment falters. Drawing on Axel Honneth, Hans Jonas, and Stanley Cavell, we examine what it means to stay present—not when things go well, but when they go sideways.

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The Weight We Inherit and The Space We Leave - The...

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2025/04/26

The Weight We Inherit and The Space We Leave The Deeper Thinking Podcast We carry more than we know. Not just genetics or stories, but gestures, silences, expectations—small inheritances that shape how we love, how we work, how we wait. This episode traces those inheritances—not to resolve them, but to notice their weight, and ask whether we might set some of them down. What if care didn’t have to mean self-erasure? What if ambition didn’t have to echo someone else’s hunger? What if legacy wasn’t a

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Edges That Hold, How Constraint Shapes What Lasts -...

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2025/04/24

Edges That Hold: How Constraint Shapes What Lasts The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if the moments that stay with us didn’t arise from freedom, but from its absence? This episode explores how material, emotional, and structural constraint can become the shape of expression itself. We trace this paradox through a child’s treehouse, the tape hiss in Daniel Johnston’s basement recordings, the quiet of Agnes Martin’s grids, and the undeveloped rolls left behind by Vivian Maier. These are not stories

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The Unspoken Lives of Men - The Deeper Thinking Podcast

The Deeper Thinking Podcast ·

2025/04/24

The Unspoken Lives of Men What does it mean to witness a masculinity that doesn’t perform? And how do we make space for the kinds of strength that don’t announce themselves? As bell hooks teaches us, love and liberation are intertwined—not just for women, but for men too. And Simone Weil reminds us that attention is a form of devotion. In this episode, we pay attention to what masculinity becomes when performance is stripped away. Why Listen? What happens when the scripts for being a man no longer

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The Saturated State - The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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2025/04/24

The Saturated State The Deeper Thinking Podcast We are governed not by force alone, but by saturation—of noise, of image, of pace. This episode explores how distraction, emotional overload, and political fatigue are not accidents of the moment but tools of governance. It asks what happens when democracy becomes aesthetic, memory becomes unstable, and speech becomes calibration rather than expression. Power today no longer declares. It performs. Following thinkers like Byung-Chul Han, who examines

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Come Home to Yourself - The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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2025/04/24

Come Home to Yourself The Deeper Thinking Podcast What does it mean to return to yourself—not as a goal, but as a rhythm? This episode is a translation of an inner voice: the one that waits beneath survival, beyond performance, beneath the noise. It doesn’t instruct. It doesn’t explain. It listens. And when we listen back, something begins to soften. Drawing on the emotional textures of slow growth, quiet resistance, and relational repair, we explore how healing isn’t a triumph but a return. We

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