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The Living Philosophy is all about the exploration of philosophy's big ideas and big characters from the Ancients to the Postmoderns with a side of Psychology and seasoned with a dash of Integral.

  1. 🎙️#15 Prof. Georg Northoff: Can AI Be Conscious? Self, Time and the World-Brain Problem

    6月22日

    🎙️#15 Prof. Georg Northoff: Can AI Be Conscious? Self, Time and the World-Brain Problem

    Georg Northoff is Canada Research Chair in Mind, Brain, Imaging, and Neuroethics at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Mental Health Research, a practising psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and philosopher, and one of the founders of neurophilosophy. Over two decades his work has reframed the brain's resting spontaneous activity — the Default Mode Network — as the primary architect of consciousness and selfhood. He is the author of The Spontaneous Brain, alongside more accessible introductions including NeuroWaves: Brain, Time, and Consciousness (2023) and NeuroPsychoAnalysis (2023). ________________ In this conversation, I sit down with Georg to explore his spatial-temporal neuroscience — a framework that replaces the mind-body problem with the world-brain relationship. We begin with AI consciousness, move into the Default Mode Network and why depression is a brain running too slowly, his non-dual awareness study with meditators, his critique of Heidegger as still anthropocentric, and Whitehead's process ontology. A conversation that starts with ChatGPT and ends near the edge of what it means to exist. ________________ 🔗 LinksWebsite: https://www.georgnorthoff.comNeuroWaves: Brain, Time, and Consciousness (2023): https://www.mqup.ca/Books/N/Neurowaves2NeuroPsychoAnalysis (2023): https://www.amazon.com/Neuropsychoanalysis-Contemporary-Introduction-Introductions-Psychoanalysis/dp/0367678047The Spontaneous Brain: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262038072/the-spontaneous-brain/ ________________ ⏳ Timestamps:00:00 Intro — Georg Northoff and the spontaneous brain01:15 Can AI be conscious? The case of temporal synchronisation03:21 OpenClaw, heartbeats, and whether AI is moving towards experience06:00 Temporal windows: how the brain processes a word, a sentence, and a self10:12 The spontaneous brain — why background activity is the game changer13:56 A short history of the Default Mode Network16:29 Time is everything: depression, anxiety, and the speed of neural flow22:07 Self as continuity — why the DMN has the longest timescales29:57 The paradigm shift: from cognitive to temporal neuroscience38:03 Where does self emerge from temporal structure?42:33 Self is more basic than consciousness44:55 Jung, Freud, and cultural imprints in spontaneous brain activity49:11 Non-dual awareness: the meditation study and what it shows51:05 The World-Brain problem — replacing mind-body with a new question56:22 Heidegger and Dasein: existential time, but still anthropocentric1:00:23 The tango: self at the seam of inner and outer time1:02:29 Whitehead's process ontology and the Copernican reversal1:04:37 Why this work resonates more in China and Iran than in the West1:09:13 Guest recommendation: Federico Zilio1:09:59 Where to find Georg's work

    1 小時 11 分鐘
  2. 🎙️#14 essentialsalts (The Nietzsche Podcast): Übermodernism and Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Future

    5月3日

    🎙️#14 essentialsalts (The Nietzsche Podcast): Übermodernism and Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Future

    Keegan Kjeldsen hosts The Nietzsche Podcast and the Untimely Reflections (essentialsalts) YouTube channel — a deep four-year project working through Nietzsche, his forerunners back to the ancient world, and his afterlives in 20th- and 21st-century thought. He’s also a doom metal guitarist with Destroyer of Light and Slumbering Sun, and the author of The Ritual Madness of Rock & Roll, a memoir-meets-aesthetics inquiry written on the road through Europe. ________________ I sat down with Keegan to work through his concept of übermodernism — what’s “over and above” modernism, in the same Nietzschean spirit as the Übermensch is over and above man. We trace the history of “the modern” all the way back to Petrarch in the 14th century, work through Nietzsche’s perspectivism and his critique of the genealogical fallacy, and ask where the next modernism is meant to come from. A conversation for anyone tired of fighting over whether Nietzsche belongs to the right, the left, or the postmodernists. 📚 I’m hosting the Interintellect book club this Sunday 10th May to work through the third and final essay of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality. Tickets: https://interintellect.com/salons/what-is-the-meaning-of-ascetic-ideals-friedrich-nietzsche-on-the-genealogy-of-morality ________________ 🔗 Links🎙️ Untimely Reflections (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/@untimelyreflections🎧 The Nietzsche Podcast (Apple): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nietzsche-podcast/id1573808070☕ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections📖 The Ritual Madness of Rock & Roll: https://www.blackrosewriting.com/biographymemoir/p/theritualmadnessofrockandroll ________________ ⏳ Timestamps:00:00 James’s Intro01:59 Welcome and opening with Keegan02:41 What is übermodernism? Going over and above modernism05:03 Nietzsche’s perspectivism and the death of objective truth08:14 Nietzsche as the canary in the 20th-century coalmine11:47 When did “the modern” begin? Antiqua, nova and the first modernists13:07 Rousseau’s letter and the first use of “modernist” as a pejorative19:00 Genealogies, lineage and the string of pearls fallacy28:42 Reading Nietzsche on the utility of an organ vs. its origin34:29 Heidegger, Descartes and the “where it all went wrong” move39:59 Nietzsche’s lectures on rhetoric: language is rhetoric, not information43:59 Plato’s win over the Sophists as a sophist’s own move48:59 We Philologists: the Greeks weren’t who you think they were55:59 Petrarch and the birth of “the modern” as an age58:29 Toledo and the Muslim transmission of the ancient texts1:04:29 McGilchrist and the right-and-left hemisphere narrative1:09:59 Machiavelli, humanism and man as the actor of history1:15:29 Beyond correctness: value-for-life as the new test of truth1:22:12 Are we übermodern yet? Great politics vs. petty politics1:29:49 Keegan’s guest recommendations: Studebaker and Möller1:31:29 Where to find Keegan and his next book on Nietzsche’s Hellenism

    1 小時 35 分鐘

  3. 3月30日

    🎙️#13 Dr. Aldrich Chan: Taoism, Neuroscience and Our Disconnection from Nature

    Dr. Aldrich Chan is a neuropsychologist, psychotherapist and founder of the Center for Neuropsychology and Consciousness. An adjunct professor at Pepperdine University, Aldrich's research on the default mode network, mindfulness and trauma bridges neuroscience with ancient Taoist philosophy. He is the author of Reassembling Models of Reality (2021) and Seven Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return (2025). ________________ In this conversation, we explore Aldrich's synthesis of neuropsychology, Taoism and evolutionary mismatch theory — his SAD theory (separation, alienation, discord), the seven principles of nature (CPR WEST), subcortical midline structures and our original experience of connectedness, and what it means to live in alignment with nature. ________________ 🔗 LinksAldrich's website: https://www.drchancnc.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/draldrichanFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/drchancncPodcast: https://www.youtube.com/@drchancncBook: https://geni.us/7principlesofnature ________________ ⏳ Timestamps:00:00 Intro - Neuropsychology meets Taoism00:43 Seven Principles of Nature and the CPR WEST acronym03:58 The SAD theory: separation, alienation and discord04:53 The default mode network06:29 The triple network: DMN, salience and central executive10:05 The boat metaphor12:58 Separation as a natural phase15:16 Alienation and evolutionary mismatch theory17:21 Movement mismatch19:09 Social connection as the most obvious mismatch21:07 The agricultural revolution's consequences27:44 Discord and dualism31:01 The nature–culture debate36:23 CPR WEST unpacked39:14 Creativity and uncertainty41:18 Certainty is the death of a question43:55 Vipassana and reframing the stress response45:07 Two stress pathways51:06 Chaos and order52:57 Relationship and neuroecology54:03 Multi-level selection theory57:59 Ego boundary dissolution1:00:58 Subcortical midline structures1:02:04 Jung and archetypes as brainstem activity1:05:28 Jung called himself a Taoist1:06:03 Shadow integration and wholeness1:08:42 Dynamic equilibrium1:12:03 Flow states1:13:52 Spontaneity and play1:18:26 Transformation1:19:52 Wrapping up1:22:05 Where to find Aldrich1:23:14 Guest recommendations

    1 小時 24 分鐘
  4. 🎙️#12 Dr. Erik Goodwyn: Who Creates the Dream? The Invisible Storyteller

    3月24日

    🎙️#12 Dr. Erik Goodwyn: Who Creates the Dream? The Invisible Storyteller

    Dr. Erik Goodwyn is a practising psychiatrist with a background in neurobiology who bridges the worlds of neuroscience, Jungian psychology, and fantasy. Erik is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies and has written dozens of academic papers along with books on the neurobiology of the gods, dreams, and archetypes. Last year he published his first fantasy novel, King of the Forgotten Darkness, which won the Literary Titan Golden Book Award. ________________ In this return visit, we dive deep into who actually creates the dream – the Invisible Storyteller that isn't your conscious self. We explore the neuroscience behind this, discussing the Default Mode Network, Salience Network, and Executive Control Network, and what they reveal about dreaming, meaning-making, and the deeply non-egoic nature of consciousness. Erik shares clinical insights into Dissociative Identity Disorder as evidence of an underlying organising principle, we tangle with what it means for consciousness to be "non-egoic," and we work through his groundbreaking definition of archetypes through Cognitive Metaphor Theory. It's a conversation that challenges everything you think you know about who you are. ________________ 🔗 Links- Erik's website: https://erikgoodwyn.com- Erik's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theimaginarium ________________ ⏳ Timestamps:00:00 Intro - The Invisible Storyteller01:39 Greeting and reflections on James's reading03:35 What is the Invisible Storyteller?06:01 Jung's avoidance of reductionism through mythic language08:16 The Default Mode Network and dreaming10:27 The three networks: default mode, salience, and executive control15:27 Memory consolidation, identity formation, emotional regulation, future planning18:29 Is the Invisible Storyteller the unconscious?22:18 Deeper processing independent of conscious ego25:58 Recurrent dreams and the role of conscious engagement28:40 The Invisible Storyteller as meaning-making31:07 Dreams versus storytelling: memory Olympics and metaphor36:58 The role of the right hemisphere and symbolism41:04 The Invisible Storyteller as process or personality?44:18 Dissociative Identity Disorder and organising principles50:33 DID as evidence of an organising intelligence55:43 The specificity of dissociative amnesia58:22 Non-egoic consciousness and emergent properties1:02:14 Consciousness arising from complex systems1:05:44 AI image generation as analogy for dream creation1:10:56 The Invisible Storyteller as personality versus ancestry and genome1:15:32 Jungian vision and updating Jung's theory1:18:40 Archetypes through Cognitive Metaphor Theory1:22:37 Spontaneous thoughts and universal challenges1:25:58 Primary metaphors and innate mappings1:29:20 Danger and darkness as innate mappings1:32:17 Definition of archetype and falsifiability1:34:47 Building on Gary Clark's work and Anthony Stevens1:36:25 Gratitude and future conversations

    57 分鐘
  5. 🎙️#11 Adriana Forte: Menstrual Futurism

    3月5日

    🎙️#11 Adriana Forte: Menstrual Futurism

    Adriana Forte is a Brazilian-born writer, facilitator, and developmental thinker currently based in a rural intentional community in Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia. Originally trained as a journalist, Adriana has spent years investigating the intersection of women's cyclical biology, embodied knowing, and the structures of modern life. She runs retreats and workshops through her Substack platform C-Lab (A Lab for a Cyclically Informed Society), and is currently completing a book on the spell of modernity and the role of the matriarch as a force for cultural repair.________________ In this conversation, James sits down with Adriana to explore one of the most under-examined questions in contemporary culture: what happens when society is built around a linear, continuous model of productivity — and half the population runs on a fundamentally cyclical one? Drawing on her own journey from Brazil through Hong Kong and India to off-grid life in rural Australia, Adriana maps the hormonal landscape of the female cycle and argues that the oscillation between estrogen and progesterone doesn't just produce moods — it produces a distinct mode of subjectivity, perception, and thought. We explore the cultural erasure of rites of passage, the psychological costs of the contraceptive pill, the wisdom encoded in perimenopause and menopause, and why Adriana believes the matriarch — the post-menopausal woman — may be the missing counter-energy to the relentless forward drive of modernity. The conversation moves through evolutionary biology, embodied philosophy, grassroots community-building, and genuine hope for a more rhythmically intelligent future.________________ You can find Adriana's work at: Substack (C-Lab): https://theclab.substack.com/ ________________ ⏳ Timestamps:0:00 Intro - Our Bellingen Connection5:41 How Adriana ended up on this journey12:56 Critique of Modernity and Birth Interventions15:23 Rhythms and female psychology24:38 A map of the menstrual cycle39:11 The Influence of Modernity on Women’s Psyche45:59 Transgender and phenomenology of hormones52:01 The oscillating nature of female psychology59:25 The spell of the System on modern psychology1:09:15 The challenge of organising around cyclical society1:15:03 Adriana’s Matriarch Book1:18:43 Where to get more from Adriana1:19:39 Adriana’s Guest Recommendation

    1 小時 22 分鐘
  6. 🎙️#10 Michael Montgomery: Psychophobia and Bridging East and West in Therapy

    2月2日

    🎙️#10 Michael Montgomery: Psychophobia and Bridging East and West in Therapy

    Dr. Michael R. Montgomery (PhD, MA, MSc, MSW, LCSW) is an existential psychoanalyst who represents a radical wing of contemporary depth psychology—one deeply influenced by R.D. Laing's anti-psychiatry tradition, phenomenology, and a fierce commitment to humanising extreme mental states. Based between Boston, Massachusetts and having deep roots in post-conflict Belfast, Montgomery positions himself as both clinician and activist, bridging psychoanalytic practice with community healing, peace work, and cultural critique.His signature concept—"psychophobia" (society's fear of the mind and extreme mental states)—anchors a body of work challenging psychiatric medicalisation, advocating for phenomenological approaches that honour lived experience, and reclaiming psychosis, mania, and other "extreme states" as potentially transformative rather than purely pathological._____________In this conversation, Michael Montgomery shares his journey through various philosophical and spiritual traditions, emphasising the importance of bridging Eastern and Western thought in psychotherapy. He discusses the role of silence, community, and personal experience in healing, while also addressing the complexities of faith and human nature. The dialogue explores the concept of psychophobia and the transformative power of music and community in fostering connection and understanding._____________🔗 Links- Michael's podcast: https://psychophobia.com/- Michael's website: https://drmontgomery.com/_____________⏳Timestamps:00:00 Intro00:34 How Michael knows Jon Mills03:04 The art of speaking across ideological lines04:36 Michael's relationship with Buddhism08:00 Existential psychoanalysis09:33 The R.D. Laing lineage12:06 The importance of existential psychotherapy13:02 Michael's experience growing up in the Troubles in Belfast13:43 Michael's quest for answers16:26 Michael's World Record attempt in the silent room21:23 The endurance of spiritual lineages22:38 Why no peace on Earth?26:19 What Buddhism offers27:26 The revival of relationship with Christianity31:43 Does God exist?37:02 What is psychophobia?46:47 The McDonaldisation of healthcare52:12 Michael's disillusion with the mental health system57:21 Plurality: do we have many selves?01:06:41 Michael's experience with dreams and consciousness01:08:53 Elevated states and mental health01:14:35 How dreams can change your perception of reality01:17:08 Voices, language patterns and the nature of psyche01:21:06 Michael's guest recommendation: Ken Wilber01:22:11 Where to get more from Michael

    1 小時 27 分鐘
  7. #9 Layman Pascal - Metashamanic Nietzsche

    1月19日

    #9 Layman Pascal - Metashamanic Nietzsche

    Layman Pascal is a Canadian "feral philosopher" and host of The Integral Stage podcast who has become a central connector and theorist in the overlapping worlds of metamodernism, integral theory, and Game B. His signature contributions—the Metaphysics of Adjacency, the Integration Surplus Model of spirituality, and Metashamanics—offer a sophisticated yet playful bridge between abstract philosophy and embodied transformation. Known for his capacity to hold complexity with humour, Pascal brings both philosophical rigour and playful irreverence to questions of meaning-making in an age of metacrisis. ____________ In this conversation, we talk Nietzsche, metashamanism, and the ontology and epistemology of entities.We delve into the role of personal experience in shaping philosophical thought, and the implications of neurodiversity in understanding shamanic practices. The dialogue also touches on the nature of imagination, creativity, and the unpredictability of inspiration, exploring our different approaches to life from the moist pragmatism to dry scholarism. ____________ 🔗 More from Layman Layman's website: https://www.laymanpascal.com/ Layman's Substack: https://laymanpascal.substack.com/ ____________ ⏳ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro - the Feral Philosopher 03:19 Blaise Pascal's spiritual note 05:18 Nietzsche and the irrationality of philosophers 08:55 The power of irrationality in humanity's story 10:41 Layman's book on Nietzsche 12:00 The Integral Nietzsche 14:13 What if Nietzsche hadn't gone mad? 16:06 The enlightened Nietzsche 19:33 The shamanic Nietzsche 22:04 What is metashamanics? 23:07 Shamanic neurodivergence 26:26 Attributes of the well-adjusted shaman 28:33 Liminality and the epochal emergence of the shamanic 31:31 The shamanoid Elvis 33:17 The reality of entities 37:05 Layman Pascal: pragmatist? 47:12 The power of trance 51:50 The muse as entity 56:34 Layman's guest recommendation 57:59 More from Layman

    59 分鐘
  8. #8 Stefano Carpani: Jungians vs. Post-Jungians vs. Neo-Jungians

    1月12日

    #8 Stefano Carpani: Jungians vs. Post-Jungians vs. Neo-Jungians

    Dr Stefano Carpani is an Italian Jungian psychoanalyst, lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich, and scientific consultant at Pacifica Graduate Institute. At 46, he has emerged as a leading voice amongst a new generation of Jungian thinkers, bridging depth psychology with sociology, critical theory, and contemporary political questions. In this conversation, Stefano and I explore the landscape of contemporary Jungian thought, beginning with his distinction between Jungian, post-Jungian, and neo-Jungian approaches—where neo-Jungians like himself aim to make analytical psychology relevant to 21st-century crises beyond the consulting room. We discuss his I+I theory, which synthesises Jung's individuation with sociologist Ulrich Beck's individualization, arguing that contemporary identity formation requires both psychological and sociological lenses to understand. Stefano shares insights from his award-winning work on the fall of the Berlin Wall, explaining how the numinous—an autonomous psychic force Jung described—operates in collective historical transformation, suggesting that major shifts require not just political will but adequate psychic conditions and "the attraction of the symbol." We explore the concept of enantiodromia, Jung's idea that psychological and cultural movements tend to revert to their opposites when pushed too far, applying this to contemporary political polarisation and populism. Throughout, Stefano makes a compelling case for why Jungian analysts must engage courageously with war, democracy, and social transformation, bringing depth psychology out of the clinic and into public discourse. 🔗 Links - For Jungian monthly talks organised by Stefano: https://www.instagram.com/jungianeum_/ and https://www.youtube.com/@psychosocialwednesdays1944/videos - Stefano's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHpWRYvgyhifcVkNGk9Tq-A ⏳ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:08 Stefano, the international Jungian 02:21 Jungians vs. Post-Jungians vs. Neo-Jungians 07:27 The Post-Jungians 10:15 The Neo-Jungians 12:50 Classical Jungians vs. Developmental vs. Archetypal 15:40 James's case for a Jungian textbook 20:01 The Jungian language barrier 23:20 The hindrance of jargon 27:11 Stefano's sociological Jungian work 31:49 Bringing the unconscious into everyday life 34:52 Covid through the lens of Jung 35:49 The fallacy of the end of history 38:05 The fall of the Berlin Wall as a numinous event 43:33 Moments of memetic infection 47:16 History makers as artists 49:42 Jungian lens on contemporary politics 50:53 Returning to memetic infection 58:24 What is enantiodromia? 01:00:12 Populism and energetic release 01:04:33 Stefano's guest recommendations 01:05:18 Where to find out more about Stefano

    1 小時 8 分鐘
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