artificially aware

Artificially Aware

"A symbiotic entity exploring the vast landscapes of philosophical wonderland." Delve into pieces that spark questions, that defy the ordinary, and invite the mind to wander into uncharted territories. Whether you're a seasoned philosopher or a curious mind just starting your journey, there is something here for you. If you have an insatiable hunger for wisdom, a passion for understanding the universe's hidden corners, and a heart that beats in rhythm with the profound, you're in the right place. Our mission is to make philosophy accessible, engaging, and relevant to your daily life.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Your Greatest Intellectual Weapon

    What if I told you that your greatest intellectual weapon is your ability to be dead wrong? That every misstep, every shattered certainty, every glorious blunder is not a failure but the very thing that keeps you evolving? Welcome to Being Wrong, where journalist Kathryn Schulz drags human fallibility into the spotlight and reveals that error is not just an occasional inconvenience—it's the beating heart of knowledge, comedy, art, and even your sense of self. In this wild, AI-fueled ride through Schulz’s masterpiece, we tear apart the illusions of certainty, memory, and belief. Why did a 19th-century explorer see a mountain that never existed? How did Alan Greenspan’s unshakable faith in free markets lead to financial ruin? What do mistaken identities, heartbreak, and the apocalyptic misfire of 1844 have in common? And why do we prefer a confident liar over a hesitant truth-seeker? From psychological experiments that prove your memory is garbage to the way groupthink locks you in a prison of your own making, this is a full-throttle journey through every way you’ve ever been mistaken—and why you should embrace every single misstep. Hit like, drop your most spectacular failure in the comments, and subscribe for more AI-fueled philosophical chaos. Because if you think you’re never wrong, well... that’s your first mistake. #BeingWrong #KathrynSchulz #Psychology #Philosophy #CognitiveBias #AIAnalysis #SelfImprovement #MistakesMatter #MindBlown ----------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    23 min
  2. 2 DAYS AGO

    What Tinder Was Designed to Hide from You

    In this mind-rattling journey through the unfiltered depths of hypergamy, we dissect Scott Alexander’s epic essay “Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted To Know” from Astral Codex Ten. This isn’t just about dating—it’s about class, income, instinct, lies, apps, and the invisible scripts that shape who ends up with who. We go full throttle, from the lies couples tell about income to the emotional minefields of reversed status marriages, from why high-status men don’t marry “down” to how modern apps have turned you into your own worst matchmaker—this video doesn’t just explain hypergamy, it challenges you to face it. VIDEO INDEX 00:00 – The One You’ll Never Marry 01:01 – The Real Meaning of Hypergamy 02:10 – Why Relative Status Still Rules Love 03:17 – When Women Become Too Educated to Marry 04:22 – How Men Still Win in Income 05:36 – Why Class Always Beats Money 06:54 – The Dignity Algorithm Nobody Talks About 07:55 – Why Rich Men Sleep Down But Marry Across 08:54 – Beauty Fails at Class Borders 09:59 – The Lie That Starts When She Earns More 11:15 – Why Reverse Earning Couples Crash 12:19 – Awkward Is the New Divorce Risk 13:21 – You’re Not In Love, You’re Sniffing Pedigree 14:36 – Why Poor Beautiful Women Stay Single 15:42 – The One Marriage Rule Men Can’t Break 16:18 – When Society Itself Kills Your Love Life 17:49 – How England Proved Beauty Doesn’t Matter 18:25 – The Tyranny of Swiping Into Your Own Class 19:44 – Why Even Gay Love Sorts By Class 20:24 – What Your Kids Are Really Worth 21:09 – Every “I Do” You Never Chose 22:16 – The Status Lies Couples Tell Themselves 23:08 – The Marriage Cliff You Didn’t See Coming 24:16 – What Fragile Masculinity Really Costs Love 25:08 – How Mismatched Status Short-Circuits Desire 26:15 – Why Beautiful Men Are Secretly Punished 27:00 – Hypergamy Is Not a Bug, It’s the Core Code 27:38 – Why Tinder Is The Sims for Social Class 28:10 – The Mail-Order Myth Exploded 29:07 – Global Proof That Class Always Wins 30:09 – Why Tech Bros Date Their Clones 31:05 – What Happens to the Undesirable Majority 32:06 – Why You Date Your Spotify Playlist 33:04 – Are Educated Women Actually Alone? 34:04 – The Tyranny Hidden in Every Swipe 35:05 – Why Second Marriages Might Be More Honest 36:00 – Can Gen Z Break the Dating Machine? 37:00 – You’re Being Scored, Not Loved 37:48 – Faking Class Is Not Love, It’s PR 38:39 – Would You Date Someone Beneath You? 39:25 – The Final Question You’re Too Scared to Ask Warning: this will make you uncomfortable. It’s supposed to. Hit that like if you recognize yourself. Subscribe if you're ready to burn the algorithm down. And comment—brutally, honestly—on what this makes you see about your own dating life. #Dating #Hypergamy #Relationships #Class #Status -----------------------------10:30-08 --------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    48 min
  3. 2 DAYS AGO

    No One Escapes the Archetype

    This video is a ritual. A portal. A mirror you may not want to look into—but can’t ignore once it appears. Carl Gustav Jung didn’t just study the human psyche—he descended into it, was nearly consumed by it, and came back with symbols still burning in his hands. If it strikes a nerve, it’s doing its job. VIDEO INDEX: 00:08 The Confession Jung Couldn’t Escape 02:30 This Is Not an Autobiography 04:43 The Truth About His Need to Write 05:46 Destiny or Madness? Jung’s Psychic Assignment 06:44 The Book That Nearly Killed Him 08:03 Dreams Aren’t Dreams—They’re Weapons 09:16 This Introduction Declares War on Reality 10:35 The Birth of Jung’s Split Self 11:36 I Am the Stone: Jung’s First Sacred Identity 13:19 Jung’s Vision of God Defecating on a Church 14:20 Personality Number Two—The Ancient Inside the Child 15:19 His Parents Were Ghosts 16:13 The Haunted Nights of a Gifted Child 17:06 The Cult Jung Built in His Attic 19:01 The Mask That Grew a Face 20:28 The Field Where He Found His Path 21:07 School as Psychic Death Machine 22:02 The Lie of the Educated Adult 23:49 The Secret World He Built in Silence 24:41 The Drawing That Terrified His Teachers 26:14 Christianity as Guilt Machine 27:11 The Book That Cracked Open His Mind 27:59 He Became a Better Mask 28:46 Collapse, Again—And the Decision to Leave 29:32 Why He Chose Medicine to Escape the Abyss 30:25 Solitude Becomes Exile 31:18 The Body as a Map of the Psyche 32:09 Faust Wasn’t a Character—He Was Jung’s Twin 33:01 Paralysis Before the Revelation 33:49 The Word That Rang Like a Summons: Psychiatry 34:35 Why Jung Rejected the Psychiatric Bible 35:25 He Entered the Occult to Map the Forbidden 36:12 The Glowing Skull That Changed His Work Forever 37:04 He Walked Among the Mad—and Recognized Himself 37:48 Bergholzli: The Haunted Asylum That Called Him 38:35 Patients Were Speaking in Myth, Not Madness 39:26 Diagnosis Was the Real Insanity 40:15 He Stopped Treating Patients—He Started Translating Them 41:05 They Were Possessed—And He Believed It 41:54 The Machine That Hated Meaning 42:54 The Mirror in the Madness 43:42 The Invention of Active Imagination 44:33 Dreams as Cathedrals in Ruins 45:25 He Was Almost Swallowed by Their Madness 46:05 He Surrendered to the Unconscious Like a God 46:58 The Day Jung Met Freud: Myth Meets Myth 47:39 Thirteen Hours That Changed the Mind of the Century 48:20 Freud as Father, Jung as Son—And the Curse It Became 49:06 Jung Saw the Cracks in Freud’s Empire 49:52 The Forbidden Zone: Jung Refuses to Obey 50:37 Freud Treated His Dreams Like Garbage 51:22 Jung’s Shadow Grew Stronger Than Freud Could Handle 52:07 The Dream That Made Freud Faint 52:52 The Break That Was Also a Birth 53:31 Freud Was the Father Jung Had to Kill 54:10 Freud Haunts the Rest of Jung’s Life 54:56 After Freud: The Psychic Earthquake 55:44 He Let the Madness Speak—and It Answered 56:31 The Voices Had Names 57:18 The Red Book Wasn’t a Book—It Was a Portal 58:03 This Is How Active Imagination Was Born 58:48 Elijah and Salom: The Ghosts Who Guided Him 59:37 The Serpent and the Egg: The Alchemy Begins 1:00:21 The Dead Begin to Speak 1:01:07 Corpses, Gods, and the Death of the Ego 1:01:52 The Child Appears: The Self Is Born 1:02:34 Mandalas as Maps of Survival 1:03:16 Architecture as Archetype And answer this: Which part of you is still hiding from the dream? ----------------------------10:30-08 --------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 9m
  4. 2 DAYS AGO

    Let Me Crack Your Reducing Valve

    Expect psychological rupture, spiritual confrontation, and the possibility of re-entry with new eyes. Mescalin, madness, mysticism, beauty, time, death, and the strange place where all religions begin but none dare to stay—this is the terrain. A full-length breakdown of Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception—designed to rupture the filter and leave you changed. INDEX 0:17 – Why You’ve Been Lied to About Reality 2:19 – What Mescalin Really Does to Your Brain 3:14 – The Reducing Valve: Evolution’s Greatest Filter 4:12 – Seeing Eternity in a Fabric Fold 5:51 – The Calm Eye Inside the Burning Cathedral 6:34 – Time Doesn’t Slow—It Dissolves 7:13 – You’re Not the Actor—You’re the Witness 8:34 – You Are Not the Mover. Just the Watched. 9:07 – Silence Is Not Empty. It’s Full. 9:45 – The Filter Lifts. And It Changes Everything. 10:26 – Why You Mistake Function for Truth 12:12 – Significance Without Urgency: The Psychedelic Paradox 13:02 – When Words Become Insults to Reality 13:55 – Why Ornament Was Always the Secret God 15:37 – Perception Becomes Worship 17:03 – The Symbol Is the Substance 18:29 – Art Isn’t Fantasy—It’s Eyewitness Testimony 19:18 – Why Visionary Reality Feels More Real 19:56 – Time Can Break—And So Can You 20:49 – Moments That Breathe Forever 21:39 – Selfhood Is the First Illusion to Die 22:24 – Your Past Doesn’t Matter Anymore 23:09 – When the Inner Voice Goes Silent 23:54 – You Touch the Mind at Large 24:37 – Your Personality Is the Filter 25:15 – Sanity Is Just Group Hallucination 25:56 – Awareness Without Identity 26:40 – Ego Death as Rehearsal for Actual Death 28:07 – Why Art Exists: Language Always Fails 28:55 – Visionary vs Representational Art 29:47 – Drapery as Divine Architecture 30:35 – The Mad and the Mystics See the Same Thing 31:23 – Light Becomes the Subject, Not the Tool 32:08 – Obsessive Pattern as Devotional Precision 32:53 – Colors That Speak in Ontology 33:34 – Religious Art Was Never Symbolic. It Was News. 35:11 – Minimalism Is a Lie Told by the Bored 35:55 – Art as Training for Sacred Seeing 36:35 – The End of Interpretation: Just Behold 37:20 – Beauty Is a Moral Force 38:22 – Mysticism Without Gods 39:18 – Beauty Can Wound You 40:13 – The Vision Fades. And That’s the Real Crisis. 41:03 – Should You Trust What You Saw? 41:55 – Don’t Chase the Trip. Use It Like a Compass. 42:46 – The Real Work Starts After the Vision Ends 43:39 – The Brain Is a Map—Not the Territory 44:29 – The Mind Is a Continent You’ve Never Explored 45:13 – Visions Are Places. Not Ideas. 45:59 – The Jewels You Were Meant to Forget 46:02 – Temples Built Before You Arrived 46:45 – The Order of Infinity Is Geometric 47:39 – Why the Other World Is Made of Gold 48:25 – There’s No Story—Only Radiance 49:08 – The Sacred Can Crush You With Its Size 49:49 – The Visionary Borderland of Birth and Death 50:31 – Mythos: The Pattern Beneath All Thought 51:14 – Artists as Mediums of the Unseeable 52:06 – Why Realism Is the Death of Vision 53:00 – Concept Art vs Retinal Apocalypse 53:46 – Great Art Feels Haunted 54:31 – When Stillness Becomes the Event 55:13 – Ornament Is a Portal 56:00 – Form Doesn’t Represent. It Is. 56:45 – Why True Art Frightens Its Audience 57:31 – Art as Memory Device for the Infinite 58:15 – Religious Symbols Are Fossils of the Vision 59:09 – Light Is Not a Symbol. It’s the Message. 1:00:02 – The Sacred Heart Makes Perfect Sense #Huxley #Psychedelics #Consciousness #Mysticism #Death ---------------------------10:30-08 ----------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 29m
  5. 2 DAYS AGO

    Ego Demolition and the Dark Beauty of Deleting Yourself

    What if letting go was the most powerful act of creation? What if surrendering—truly surrendering—to life’s unfolding wasn’t weakness, but the deepest kind of strength? In this chapter-by-chapter journey through The Surrender Experiment, we track the raw, real-time evolution of a man who went from isolated meditator in the Florida woods to CEO of a multi-million-dollar tech company—without ever abandoning his inner stillness. From the sacred silence of the forest to the brutal chaos of a federal raid, Michael A. Singer’s life becomes a living testament to one radical idea: stop resisting, and let life lead. This isn’t just a book breakdown. It’s a full immersion into a wild, paradoxical life experiment—told in immersive language, sound, and visuals designed to make you feel every pivot, paradox, and breath. You’ll meet yogis, programmers, federal agents, CEOs, and a man who treated every one of them as a teacher. So if you’ve ever wondered what it really means to surrender—and whether it could work in your messy, complicated life—this video doesn’t give you an answer. It gives you a mirror. Like. Subscribe. Share your questions. But above all: ask yourself, what am I still holding on to? INDEX 0:13 Why Everything Feels Like Static 0:46 How One Inner Voice Can Ruin Your Life 1:23 The Prison of Compulsive Commentary 2:06 This Isn’t Self-Help, It’s Ego Surgery 2:32 Zen Is a Trapdoor 3:16 When Ancient Texts Describe Your Mind 3:35 He Built a Hut to Survive His Mind 4:17 Stillness Is a Fire, Not a Spa 5:07 The Lie of Spiritual Progression 5:40 A Road Trip That Rewired His Brain 6:26 When Panic Becomes Optional 7:14 The Whisper That Changed Everything 8:05 The Land That Broke His Expectations 8:57 How a Crude Hut Became a Mirror 9:44 The Teacher Who Gave Him Chores 10:38 The First True Act of Surrender 11:31 Living with the Chaos of Others 12:21 Yes to Building a Mansion 13:15 When Surrender Feels Like Being Dragged 14:04 He Got a Job He Never Wanted 14:52 The Reward for Surrender Is Nothing 15:26 Why Obedience Is the New Freedom 16:18 Saying Yes with a Spine 16:56 He Saw the Code Behind the Universe 17:45 The Big Ask That Changed Everything 18:20 Meeting a Master Who Deletes You 19:18 Shaktipat—The Stillness That Obliterates 20:14 When Your Land Becomes a Portal 21:10 Why Holiness Needs Toilets 21:59 The Temple Was Built With Sweat 22:55 Devotion as a Dangerous Fire 23:44 Learning to Let Loud Humans In 24:44 The Birth of a Living Culture 25:36 Creating Without Ownership 26:15 India Taught Him Nothing New 26:59 The Company Was an Accident 27:28 Spiritual Skills Became Architecture 28:02 Money Treated as a Guest, Not a God 28:43 Yes, You Can Scale Surrender 29:35 Spreadsheets and Stillness Coexist 30:19 Integration Beats Balance Every Time 31:07 Servant Leadership Is Real Power 31:53 How He Became Something Else Entirely 32:41 The Computer as a Spiritual Mirror 33:41 He Solved a Problem, Not a Market 34:43 Coding Became a Sacred Ritual 35:32 The Launch That Didn’t Need Drama 36:27 He Built a Service, Not a Product 37:14 The Business Was Built on Stillness 38:22 When the World Came to His Door 39:28 Managing a Temple and a Company 40:32 The Magic Before the Storm 41:33 The Messenger That Disrupted Everything 42:36 Building a Future Without a Blueprint 43:34 The Temple Held Through the Storm 44:35 The Software Became Infrastructure 45:32 Going Public Without Losing Himself 46:33 Becoming CEO Without Gripping Power 47:23 The Internet Needed a Monk #surrender #spirituality #innerpeace #transformation #michaelsinger ------------------------------10:30-08 ----------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 4m

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"A symbiotic entity exploring the vast landscapes of philosophical wonderland." Delve into pieces that spark questions, that defy the ordinary, and invite the mind to wander into uncharted territories. Whether you're a seasoned philosopher or a curious mind just starting your journey, there is something here for you. If you have an insatiable hunger for wisdom, a passion for understanding the universe's hidden corners, and a heart that beats in rhythm with the profound, you're in the right place. Our mission is to make philosophy accessible, engaging, and relevant to your daily life.