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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aperture/subscribe Your window to the Bigger Picture. Aperture is about philosophy, psychology, and society, where we explore the deep questions of existence and where humanity is headed. If you’ve ever wondered why we exist, what shapes our reality, or where all of this is going, this is for you. Subscribe to Aperture and be part of thinking about humanity’s next chapters.

  1. 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

    Human civilization is built on pyramids. Not just the stone ones baked under the Egyptian sun, but invisible structures of thought, meaning, and awareness. From raw impulse to true revelation, most people never make the climb. Despite unprecedented access to information and powerful tools, society still operates at the lowest levels of thinking. Not learning, but repeating. Not understanding, but regurgitating. Why that is, and what it takes to move upward, is the question.

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

    20 JAN

    How Therapy-speak is Destroying Your Mental Health

    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. Words that were meant to heal are now being weaponized, used to confuse, divide, and shut people down. Therapy-speak has become social currency. Emotional intelligence has turned into a performance. And everyday disagreements are increasingly framed as abuse. When did self-awareness become a competition?When did healing language turn into a way to win arguments?And what happens when normal human conflict gets pathologized? This video explores how our emotional vocabulary is changing and what it’s costing us. 🎧 Watch, reflect, and decide for yourself.

    35 min
  3. Every Level of Consciousness

    13 JAN

    Every Level of Consciousness

    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? Why is there a voice in your head, a sense of self watching the world go by?And how does a single life turn into a continuous story, unfolding through time? This episode explores the strange, unsolved mystery of consciousness and what it means to be aware at all.

    31 min
  4. 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’ve probably felt it before. You take a photo after a great night out. You’re about to post it… and then something twists in your stomach. A quiet voice asks, “Why am I doing this?” Some people ignore it and post anyway.Others pause and choose something different. They put the phone away. They keep the moment to themselves. This episode explores the psychology of people who don’t post their lives on social media, in a world where sharing no longer feels like a choice. Why do some people resist the urge to post? What do they see that others don’t? And what can the rest of us learn from them? To understand that, we first have to understand how we got here.

    15 min
  5. The 7 Levels of Reality

    02/12/2025

    The 7 Levels of Reality

    Reality doesn’t make any sense. And I don’t mean that as an exaggeration. 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 that govern black holes than we do about 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 of reality, it’s simultaneously the most familiar and the most mysterious thing we’ll ever encounter. 00:00 The 7 Levels of Reality02:09 Level One - Consensus Reality06:23 Level Two - The Realm of Perception09:00 Level Three - The Realm of Belief11:30 Level Four - The Realm of Science14:50 Level Five - The Simulation Layer17:04 Level Six - Mystical Reality19:02 Level Seven - The Unknowable Realm

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

    25/11/2025

    The AI Takeover Is Closer Than You Think

    AI experts from all around the world believe that given its current rate of progress, by 2027, we may hit the most dangerous milestone in human history. The point of no return, when AI could stop being a tool and start improving itself beyond our control. A moment when humanity may never catch up. 00:00 The AI Takeover Is Closer Than You Think01:05 The rise of AI in text, art & video02:00 What is the Technological Singularity?04:06 AI’s impact on jobs & economy05:31 What happens when AI surpasses human intellect08:36 AlphaGo vs world champion Lee Sedol11:10 Can we really “turn off” AI?12:12 Narrow AI vs Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)16:39 AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)18:01 From AGI to Superintelligence20:18 Ethical concerns & defining intelligence22:36 Neuralink and human-AI integration25:54 Experts warning of 2027 AGI

    29 min
  7. Why Nihilism is Taking Over Modern Society

    18/11/2025

    Why Nihilism is Taking Over Modern Society

    When trying to understand nihilism holistically, we run into some problems. The first is that the concept is ambiguous. It can refer to a lack of belief or ideology, and it can also refer to this lack of ideology as an ideology. That’s the difference between someone being disillusioned and rejecting a belief system and someone choosing to embrace nothingness as a belief system.

    28 min
  8. The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment: Roko's Basilisk

    04/06/2025

    The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment: Roko's Basilisk

    If you knew you’d be subjected to eternal torture because you DIDN’T do something, you’d do it, right? What if that something was aiding in the development of superintelligent AI? Would you still step up and help? This question is presented in one of man's most terrifying thought experiments.

    24 min
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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aperture/subscribe Your window to the Bigger Picture. Aperture is about philosophy, psychology, and society, where we explore the deep questions of existence and where humanity is headed. If you’ve ever wondered why we exist, what shapes our reality, or where all of this is going, this is for you. Subscribe to Aperture and be part of thinking about humanity’s next chapters.

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  • Creator
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  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    67
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