The Musing Mind Podcast with Oshan Jarow

September 2023

Psychedelic politics and humanities

Oliver Davis

Exploring the politics and humanities of psychedelics as they continue their march into the mainstream, through the lens of French artist Henri Michaux

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April 2023

How algorithms undermine consciousness

Eran Fisher

How is the rise of algorithms transforming consciousness?

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November 2022

Emancipatory Social Science

Christian Arnsperger

How might economics become an emancipatory social science?

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August 2022

An Evolutionary Economic Paradigm

David Sloan Wilson

What can evolutionary science teach economics?

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May 2022

Scaling Selfhood: Collective Intelligence from Cells to Economies

Michael Levin

On collective intelligence and biological principles for economic design...

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December 2021

Meditation & Predictive Processing

Ruben Laukkonen

Ruben discusses his new model that unifies meditation & predictive processing

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July 2021

Digital Capitalism to Acid Communism

with Emma Stamm

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March 2021

Unselfing: Philosophy of Psychedelics

with Chris Letheby

Why do psychedelics change the way we experience ourselves? Can 'unselfing' teach us anything about a spirituality fit for the 21st century?

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March 2021

Consciousness & Fiction

with Erik Hoel

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December 2020

Capitalism and the Self

with Barnaby Raine

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October 2020

Self Transformation for Post-Capitalism

with Katherine Gibson

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September 2020

What if Capitalism Isn't the Problem?

with Julie Nelson

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July 2020

Leisure, the (Lost) Basis of American Progress

with Benjamin Hunnicutt

For 100 years, Americans thought economic progress would mean rising leisure time for all. Today, we hardly question the unchanging 40 hour workweek. What happened?

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June 2020

Politics and Consciousness

with Michael Brooks

How do politics and consciousness intersect?

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April 2020

Reclaiming Adam Smith, the Zen Priest

with Gustav Peebles

Adam Smith is widely misunderstood. In fact, his writing on "splenetic philosophy" makes him sound more like a Zen priest than the father of capitalism.

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March 2020

The Myth of Individualism

with Glen Weyl

If we gaze through the myth of individualism, how might we reimagine social and economic institutions that recognize our interdependence?

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February 2020

Four Futures of Democratic Socialism

with Peter Frase

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February 2020

Power in Complex Economies (Where did the Future Go?)

with Alex Williams

Power is the unseen engine of the human world. How does it work, why did it erase the future, and how might we reclaim it?

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January 2020

The Cognitive Science of Capitalist Realism

with John Vervaeke

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November 2019

The Basic Income Episode

with Karl Widerquist

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October 2019

Social Miracles For a Time Between Worlds

with Zachary Stein

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August 2019

Finding a New Center

Andrew Taggart

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August 2019

Beyond McMindfulness

with Ron Purser

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August 2019

Entering the Supersensorium

with Erik Hoel

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