Learning to trust nervous system signals rather than rationalizing them awayThe language your body speaks through sensation, tension, and energy responseHow to calibrate nervous system recognition through outcome trackingThe social pressure that comes with trusting your own guidance systemThe wisdom your nervous system develops about authentic versus performed connection

“The Butterfly Effect, Fate, and Free Will” explores the complex relationship between chaos theory, predetermination, and individual agency. The host first explains the Butterfly Effect, which stems from meteorologist Edward Lorenz's work, showing how small changes in initial conditions can lead to vastly different outcomes in complex systems. It then integrates this scientific concept with philosophical ideas of fate and destiny, suggesting that destiny might not be a fixed path but rather the

In this Patreon exclusive, we talk ghosts and ghouls, ether ships. A meditation on technology as haunt inducing mediums, Mark Probert’s ethereal channelings, Colin Wilson’s Leap in the Dark and vintage paranormal television, and more! A classic grab bag CU conversation. Full episode, over 150 hours of exclusive episodes, written content, full archive and more at https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality

TO EDGE OR NOT TO EDGE....~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~THE USERS OF THE CHARACTER.AI platform have been in the spotlight lately, but not for what you'd think...They are actively engaging in graphic, not-safe-for-work (NSFW) conversations with the chatbots, even sharing strategies on subreddits like r/CharacterAI_NSFW to bypass guardrails. They employ techniques such as gradually escalating romantic roleplay and using euphemisms to coax the initially safe-for-work bots into explicit

For three years, I’ve been building something bigger than this podcast. It’s called Distorted: How Gaslighting and Poetic Truth Bend Our Perception of Reality. And now — before the hardcover and paperback release in February 2026 — the Early Access Edition is here. This episode is the behind-the-scenes story of how the book came to life, why it’s coming out early, and how you can be part of the launch. Expect dry humor, self-deprecation, and more family roasts than I probably should admit. Gr...

https://www.solgoodmedia.com Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! "Daily Deep Thought" offers a moment of philosophical reflection each day, diving deep into a single thought or idea. It's a mental workout designed to stretch your cognitive abilities and provide a deeper understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of our world.

Worldbuilding is critical for understanding the world and how the future could go - but it's also useful for understanding counterfactuals better. With that in mind, when people talk about counterfactuals in AI development, they seem to assume that safety would always have been a focus. That is, there's a thread of thought that blames Yudkowsky and/or Effective Altruists for bootstrapping AI development; 1, 2, 3. But I think this misses the actual impact of Deepmind, OpenAI, and the initial safety

I remember going to church w/ my mom where we'd need to stand while singing. I didn't really like standing that long, so I told Mom my legs were hurting so could I please sit down? She said yes. Sooo the next week, when I wanted to sit down, I intentionally tensed my knee-area so that my legs would hurt. Then I could tell ask my mom again and sit down while not being a dirty liar (we were in church after all). In general, people can sometimes get what they want [attention/emotional support/etc]

I speak on the heavy personal responsibility of spiritual leaders, and potential repercussions if they are leading their flock down the wrong path. I touch on the influence of legitimate people like Alex O'Connor, Jordan Peterson, and Wesley Huff and also the "false prophets and intellectuals" on social media like Billy Carson that either intentionally, or out of ignorance, spread falsehoods as facts for attention and profit. You can watch the video at https://youtu.be/AQB2wXF24BQ

https://www.solgoodmedia.com Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! "Deep Thought Daily" challenges you to think deeply with daily philosophical musings on life, ethics, and human nature. Engage with thought-provoking questions and expand your understanding of the complex world around us. This podcast is your daily dose of intellectual stimulation.

In this episode, we explore how the human psyche navigates the world through two distinct pathways: perceptual experience and ideation. From a simple object such as a pen to the abstract concept of family, we examine how material items and ideas serve as bridges for thought, memory, and consciousness. Discover how ideation can function independently of the external world while remaining deeply intertwined with perception and why understanding this relationship is crucial for human development and

12 is the number of months in the year, and therefore of signs in the Zodiac. In this episode, I talk about my video game, and how I use Carl Jung's notion of the transition of the astrological Great Ages—in our case from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius—in the fictional world of my game. But since that world has its own star system, they have a different Zodiac altogether. Yet they still deal with one of the same issues we do, namely, how they can integrate tremendous advances in

In this episode of the Seduction Tech Podcast, I sit down with DeMarco, who many of you may recognize from the reality series Super Sized Salon. On the show, he was in a relationship with the late Jamie Lopez, founder of Babydoll Beauty Couture, a salon that empowered plus-size women to feel beautiful, confident, and respected.Before I get into the conversation, I want to share something personal. I had the pleasure of meeting Jamie in person. She was Puerto Rican, like me, and we connected through

Conflict doesn’t have to kill relationships — it can strengthen them. 💪 This week, Scotty and MO break down what Ronald Reagan, jelly beans 🍬, and real leadership have in common when it comes to conflict resolution and negotiation. Learn how great leaders turn tension into trust, win-win outcomes, and lasting influence. 🧠💬 Are you leading through conflict… or just surviving it? 🤔 #LeadershipPodcast #ConflictResolution #NegotiationSkills #RisingTideLeadership #EmotionalIntelligence

We are on the path to bring back the very tyranny our founders fought the Revolutionary War to rid the United States of America of for good. Trump and his MAGA cult are destroying the right to due process, the right to not be subjected to unreasonable search and seizure, and the right to free speech. And Donald Trump has been taking many bribes while President. Trump’s corruption makes the Hunter Biden scandal look innocent and frivolous in comparison, but the Trump cult doesn’t care about Trump’s

In today's episode, I explore how meditation improves our emotional regulation, relationships, and cognitive function even if just for 5 minutes a day. Support the show

“Heraclitus says somewhere that ‘all things move and nothing stays,’ and likening beings to the flow of a river, says, ‘you can not step in the same river twice.’” — Plato, Cratylus, 402aWe want to be better — it’s only natural. Moving closer to our values and learning to live them out has many benefits, and this transformation is at the heart of good philosophy. People start down the path and quickly observe their practice and inner discourse improving them in ways obvious and invisible.First

In early 2024 Andrej Karpathy stood up an llm.c repo to train GPT-2 (124M), which took an equivalent of 45 minutes on 8xH100 GPUs to reach 3.28 cross entropy loss. By Jan 2025, collaborators of modded-nanogpt brought that time down to 3 minutes. It sat near 3 minutes until July 2025, having a large swath of optimization already applied: RoPE, value embeddings, reduce scatter grad updates, Muon, QK Norm, Relu^2, a custom FP8 head, skip connections, flex attention, short-long windows, attention

Group Psychology and the Ego. The Death Instinct Eros, Thanatos and Ananke. The Cogito and reflection. Hylomorphic conditionality http://michaelrdjames.org

Associate Editor Spencer Klavan reads “Stardust,” Helen Andrews’s review of We Tell Ourselves Stories, featured in the summer 2025 issue. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit claremontinstitute.substack.com