Musing Mind Podcast

Conversations at the crossroads of the social and contemplative sciences, from capitalism and social theory to consciousness and philosophy of mind.

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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.

April 2023

How Algorithms Undermine Consciousness

Eran Fisher

How is the rise of algorithms transforming consciousness?

November 2022

Emancipatory Social Science

Christian Arnsperger

How might economics become an emancipatory social science?

August 2022

An Evolutionary Economic Paradigm

David Sloan Wilson

What can evolutionary science teach economics?

May 2022

Scaling Selfhood: Collective Intelligence from Cells to Economies

Michael Levin

On collective intelligence and biological principles for economic design.

December 2021

Meditation & Predictive Processing

Ruben Laukkonen

Ruben discusses his new model that unifies meditation & predictive processing.

July 2021

Digital Capitalism to Acid Communism

Emma Stamm

March 2021

Unselfing: Philosophy of Psychedelics

Chris Letheby

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

March 2021

Consciousness & Fiction

Erik Hoel

December 2020

Capitalism and the Self

Barnaby Raine

October 2020

Self Transformation for Post-Capitalism

Katherine Gibson

September 2020

What if Capitalism Isn't the Problem?

Julie Nelson

July 2020

Leisure, the (Lost) Basis of American Progress

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?

June 2020

Politics and Consciousness

Michael Brooks

How do politics and consciousness intersect?

April 2020

Reclaiming Adam Smith, the Zen Priest

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.