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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aperture/subscribe Your window to the Bigger Picture. Aperture explores the questions that keep you up at night. Consciousness, reality, free will, nihilism, stoicism, AI, death, and where humanity is headed. Philosophy and psychology for the curious mind. If you've ever wondered why we exist, what shapes our reality, or where all of this is going, you've found your people. New episodes weekly. Topics: existentialism, simulation theory, meaning of life, human behavior, self-improvement, critical thinking, society.

  1. The Depressing Psychology of Deep Thinkers

    1 DAY AGO

    The Depressing Psychology of Deep Thinkers

    What if your greatest strength was slowly destroying you? To know more than others can feel like both a blessing and a curse. You notice patterns others overlook. You recognize problems long before they're acknowledged. Yet slowly, quietly, your mind gets crushed under the weight of truths it has no way to resolve. This is the hidden cost of awareness and it's more common than you think. 🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking episodes that explore the science and psychology behind how we think, feel, and make sense of the world. 💬 Share this episode with someone who always seems to "just know" . #Psychology #Overthinking #SelfAwareness #MentalHealth #DeepThinking #Podcast #WhatIf

    40 min
  2. The Highest Levels of Thinking | Why Society is Stuck at the bottom

    27 JAN

    The Highest Levels of Thinking | Why Society is Stuck at the bottom

    You have access to more information than any generation in human history. So why is society still stuck at the bottom? Human civilization is built on pyramids. Not just the stone ones baked under the Egyptian sun, but invisible structures of thought, meaning, and awareness. Layers of cognition that separate impulse from insight, repetition from understanding, reaction from revelation. Most people never make the climb. Despite every tool, every library, every search engine at our fingertips, the majority of society still operates at the lowest levels of thinking. Not learning but repeating. Not understanding but regurgitating. Consuming information without ever transforming it into knowledge. Forming opinions without ever questioning where they came from. The pyramid is right there. The path upward is open to anyone. So why do so few people take it? What keeps us trapped at the base? Is it the education system? Social media? Comfort? Fear? And what does it actually take to start thinking at the levels most people never reach? This episode maps out the full hierarchy of human thought, from the bottom to the very top, and asks the uncomfortable question: where are you on it? 🎧 This one will either inspire you or frustrate you. Probably both. 🔔 Subscribe to Aperture for episodes that refuse to think small.💬 Share this with someone who's ready to stop repeating and start understanding. #CriticalThinking #Psychology #Philosophy #Education #Consciousness #HumanBehavior #BloomsTaxonomy #Society #Intelligence #DeepThinking #SelfImprovement #Podcast

    32 min
  3. How Therapy-speak is Destroying Your Mental Health

    20 JAN

    How Therapy-speak is Destroying Your Mental Health

    The words designed to heal you are now being used against you. There's a strange shift happening in how we talk about emotions. On the surface, it sounds healthy. Emotionally intelligent. Even enlightened. But beneath the polished language is something far more unsettling. "Setting boundaries." "Holding space." "That's gaslighting." "You're being toxic." Words that were created in therapy rooms to help people heal are now being weaponized in everyday conversations. Used to win arguments. Used to shut people down. Used to frame normal human disagreement as abuse. Therapy-speak has become social currency. Emotional intelligence has turned into a performance. And the people using these words the most confidently are often the ones who understand them the least. When did self-awareness become a competition? When did vulnerability turn into a strategy? And what happens to a society that pathologizes every uncomfortable emotion and labels every disagreement as trauma? This episode explores how our emotional vocabulary is changing, who benefits from the shift, and what it's costing us in the relationships, conflicts, and conversations that actually matter. 🎧 Watch, reflect, and decide for yourself. 🔔 Subscribe to Aperture for episodes that question what everyone else accepts.💬 Share this with someone who's tired of walking on eggshells. #TherapySpeak #Psychology #MentalHealth #EmotionalIntelligence #Gaslighting #Boundaries #Narcissism #Relationships #Communication #SelfAwareness #CriticalThinking #Podcast

    35 min
  4. Every Level of Consciousness

    13 JAN

    Every Level of Consciousness

    Right now, something inside you is reading these words and experiencing them. No one can explain why. Consciousness doesn't make sense. Sights. Sounds. Smells. Texture. The warmth of love. The sting of sadness. The cold weight of heartbreak. Why do we experience any of it? Why does it feel like something to be you? Atoms don't feel. Molecules don't care. Neurons are just electrical signals firing in the dark. And yet somehow, when you put enough of them together, something wakes up. Something that has opinions. Something that falls in love. Something that reads a sentence like this and wonders what it all means. Why is there a voice in your head? Where does your sense of self come from? How does a single life turn into a continuous story, unfolding through time? And if science can explain nearly everything in the universe, why is the one thing we experience every second of every day still a complete mystery? This episode explores every level of consciousness. From basic awareness to self-reflection. From the hard problem that has stumped philosophers for centuries to the cutting-edge neuroscience that's getting closer to an answer but might never arrive. 🎧 The deepest mystery isn't out in the universe. It's behind your eyes. 🔔 Subscribe to Aperture for episodes that explore what it means to be aware.💬 Share this with someone who's ever asked themselves why they exist. #Consciousness #Philosophy #Neuroscience #Psychology #HardProblem #SelfAwareness #Brain #Existence #QuantumMind #DeepThinking #Science #Podcast

    31 min
  5. The Psychology of People Who Don't Post Their Photos on Social Media

    8 JAN

    The Psychology of People Who Don't Post Their Photos on Social Media

    You took the photo. Your thumb hovered over "post." Then something in your stomach said don't. You've felt it before. A great night out. A perfect moment. You open the app, pick the filter, start typing a caption. And then a quiet voice asks, "Why am I doing this? Who is this actually for?" Some people ignore that voice and post anyway. Others listen. They put the phone away. They keep the moment for themselves. And in a world where sharing your life online has become the default, that quiet act of resistance says something powerful. Who are these people? What do they see that the rest of us don't? Are they more self-aware, more secure, or just wired differently? And in a culture where not posting almost feels like not existing, what does it cost to stay invisible by choice? This episode explores the psychology of people who don't post their lives on social media. Not the ones who can't be bothered. The ones who actively choose not to. Why they resist when everything around them is designed to make them share. And what the rest of us can learn from people who decided that some moments are worth more when nobody else sees them. 🎧 You'll either feel seen by this episode or start questioning everything you've ever posted. 🔔 Subscribe to Aperture for episodes that explore the things everyone does but nobody examines.💬 Share this with someone who never posts. They'll finally feel understood. #SocialMedia #Psychology #DigitalDetox #MentalHealth #Instagram #Privacy #SelfAwareness #HumanBehavior #OnlineIdentity #Mindfulness #CriticalThinking #Podcast

    15 min
  6. The 7 Levels of Reality

    02/12/2025

    The 7 Levels of Reality

    You experience reality every second of every day. But do you actually understand it? We know more about the surface of distant planets dozens of light years away than we do about our own existence. We understand more about the forces governing black holes than why we have a sense of self. The thing we call "reality" collapses under even the slightest scrutiny, yet it's something every single person who has ever existed has experienced. That's the paradox. It's simultaneously the most familiar and the most mysterious thing we'll ever encounter. 🎧 This episode pulls apart the fabric of everything you think you know — and asks whether any of it was ever real to begin with. 🔔 Subscribe for episodes that make you question everything.💬 Share this with the overthinker in your life. #Reality #Philosophy #Consciousness #Simulation #Psychology #DeepThinking #Existence #WhatIf #Science #Podcast

    21 min
  7. The AI Takeover Is Closer Than You Think

    25/11/2025

    The AI Takeover Is Closer Than You Think

    By 2027, we may cross the most dangerous milestone in human history. And there's no coming back. AI experts from around the world are sounding the same alarm. At its current rate of progress, artificial intelligence could stop being a tool and start improving itself beyond our control. Not in some distant future. Within the next few years. This isn't science fiction. AlphaGo already defeated the world's greatest player at a game humans spent 3,000 years mastering. AI is already writing, creating art, composing music, and replacing jobs faster than anyone predicted. And that's just narrow AI. What happens when it becomes general intelligence? What happens when it surpasses us entirely? Can we turn it off? Will we even want to? And if we merge with it through technology like Neuralink, do we save ourselves or lose what makes us human? This episode covers the full spectrum of artificial intelligence. The technological singularity, the difference between narrow AI and AGI, the race to superintelligence, and why some of the smartest people alive believe we're running out of time to get this right. 🎧 The conversation about AI is moving faster than AI itself. This episode will get you up to speed. 🔔 Subscribe to Aperture for episodes on the ideas shaping humanity's future.💬 Share this with someone who uses AI every day but hasn't thought about where it's heading. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AGI #Singularity #Superintelligence #Technology #Neuralink #MachineLearning #Future #Ethics #DeepThinking #Science #Podcast

    29 min
  8. Why Nihilism is Taking Over Modern Society

    18/11/2025

    Why Nihilism is Taking Over Modern Society

    Nihilism has a problem. It's a belief system about believing in nothing. And that contradiction is just the beginning. There's a difference between someone who loses faith in everything and someone who chooses nothingness as their philosophy. One is broken. The other is deliberate. And both are spreading faster than ever. An entire generation is quietly drifting toward the idea that nothing matters. Not work. Not love. Not purpose. Not the future. And when you look at the state of the world right now, it's hard to blame them. But nihilism is more complex than it appears. It's not one idea. It's a spectrum, from passive despair to radical freedom, and understanding where you fall on it might be the most important thing you do for yourself. This episode breaks down nihilism from its philosophical origins to its grip on modern society. What it actually means, why it's taking over, and whether the belief in nothing might be hiding something unexpected underneath. 🎧 If you've ever caught yourself thinking "what's the point," this one's for you. 🔔 Subscribe for philosophy that doesn't flinch.💬 Share this with someone who's been feeling like nothing matters lately. #Nihilism #Philosophy #Existentialism #MeaningOfLife #Psychology #Absurdism #MentalHealth #FriedrichNietzsche #DeepThinking #ModernPhilosophy #Consciousness #Podcast

    28 min
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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aperture/subscribe Your window to the Bigger Picture. Aperture explores the questions that keep you up at night. Consciousness, reality, free will, nihilism, stoicism, AI, death, and where humanity is headed. Philosophy and psychology for the curious mind. If you've ever wondered why we exist, what shapes our reality, or where all of this is going, you've found your people. New episodes weekly. Topics: existentialism, simulation theory, meaning of life, human behavior, self-improvement, critical thinking, society.

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  • Creator
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  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    68
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    © Underknown
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