The Deeper Thinking Podcast The Deeper Thinking Podcast offers a space where philosophy becomes a way of engaging more fully and deliberately with the world. Each episode explores enduring and emerging ideas that deepen how we live, think, and act. We follow the spirit of those who see the pursuit of wisdom as a lifelong project of becoming more human, more awake, and more responsible. We ask how attention, meaning, and agency might be reclaimed in an age that often scatters them. Drawing on insights stretching across centuries, we explore how time, purpose, and thoughtfulness can quietly transform daily existence. The Deeper Thinking Podcast examines psychology, technology, and philosophy as unseen forces shaping how we think, feel, and choose, often beyond our awareness. It creates a space where big questions are lived with—where ideas are not commodities, but companions on the path. Each episode invites you into a slower, deeper way of being. Join us as we move beyond the noise, beyond the surface, and into the depth, into the quiet, and into the possibilities awakened by deeper thinking.
We’re Summoning Ghosts: Andrej Karpathy
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to the edges of intelligence, the hum of machine consciousness, and the question of whether thought can outlive its host.
#AndrejKarpathy #AI #Consciousness #AlanTuring #DouglasHofstadter #NorbertWiener #MarshallMcLuhan #JaronLanier #JohnSearle #PhilosophyOfMind #Dwarkesh Patel
The Future of AI: The New Asymmetry
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to questions of cognition, asymmetry, and the quiet reorganization of thought.
#ArtificialIntelligence #DistributedCognition #AlgorithmicGovernance #SystemsTheory #Posthumanism #PhilosophyOfTechnology #PoliticalTheory
The asymmetry has already arrived. Intelligence no longer belongs to the subject that claims it. It circulates thr...
The Body Didn’t Leave: Embodiment, Memory, and the Quiet Refusal of the Nervous System
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For listeners drawn to the intelligence of the body, the limits of explanation, and the ethics of presence.
#Embodiment #SomaticTherapy #Trauma #PolyvagalTheory #Phenomenology #AttachmentTheory #EMDR
What if the body never left at all. This episode follows what lives beneath language and persists...
The Perilous Turbulence of Free Speech
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to the fragility of liberty, the paradox of dissent, and the hidden strategies of silence.
#FreeSpeech #Socrates #Galileo #McCarthyism #TiananmenSquare #PoliticalTheory
Free speech is praised as principle, but it survives only as struggle. This episode traces its paradox: that democracy must permit even voices intent on its de...
The Architecture of Time: Work, Security, and the Conditions of Freedom
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For listeners drawn to the lived texture of time, the ethics of stability, and the philosophies that make freedom more than a slogan.
#LabourRights #Precarity #Philosophy #Aristotle #SimoneWeil #HannahArendt #Nietzsche #Marx #Foucault #Derrida #Levinas #Bergson #JudithButler #Kant #WalterBenjamin
Ghost Citizenship: Digital ID, Irrelevance, and the Politics of Forgetting
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those concerned with digital governance, the ethics of recognition, and the politics of care in an age of automated systems.
#GhostCitizenship #DigitalID #PoliticalPhilosophy #Democracy #JamesCScott #Foucault #Malabou #Barad #Zuboff #Surveillance
Ghost citizenship names a new civic condition: to be reco...
Distortionism: The Crooked Horizon
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to truth in resonance, the crooked paths of bias, and the wonder of living within illusion.
#Distortionism #DayCart #ImmanuelKant #FriedrichNietzsche #Buddhism #CognitiveBias #Postmodernism #Philosophy
What if distortion is not the fog but the lens itself? In this episode we introduce Distortionism, a new philosophy that argues we...
Consequential Cognition: A New Philosophy of Thought in the Age of AI
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to the philosophy of mind, the edges of agency, and the cost of real thought.
#ConsequentialCognition #Agency #FreeWill #Consciousness #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilosophyOfMind
Can something count as thought if it changes nothing in the thinker? In this episode, we explore the concept of conseque...
The Law of Self-Simulated Intelligence: Why Minds Can Never Fully Know Themselves
For those who suspect that every form of self-awareness—human or artificial—is haunted by the same paradox.
What if the self is a necessary fiction? This episode explores the Law of Self-Simulated Intelligence, a philosophical hypothesis that proposes no system—human or machine—can ever fully model itself. Drawing from Göde...
Karl Popper – The Open Society and Its Enemies (The Fragile Lamp)
For those drawn to the struggle between prophecy and freedom, the fragility of democracy, and the vigilance required to keep societies open.
#KarlPopper #TheOpenSociety #PoliticalPhilosophy #Pluralism #Democracy #CriticalRationalism
What keeps democracy alive when prophecy promises certainty? In this episode, we return to Karl Popper’s wartime masterpiece, The Open...
The Deeper Thinking Podcast – What Steadies Us
A meditation on connection, presence, and the quiet gestures that hold us together
This episode explores what truly steadies us when life feels uncertain. Beneath the noise of achievement, there are smaller, quieter acts that anchor us: a hand resting on another, a bowl of soup left on a doorstep, the low hum of a room transformed by presence.
Entrelationalism: Carbon, Code, Capital, and Culture – An Ethic for an Interdependent Age
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to climate ethics, AI governance, global justice, and the tangled threads of our shared future.
#Entrelationalism #ClimateEthics #AIGovernance #GlobalJustice #PoliticalPhilosophy
What ethic fits a world where carbon emissions in one country flood homes in another, where lines ...
The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt on Ideology, Terror, and the Fragility of Freedom
For those seeking deeper understanding of power, history, and the conditions that protect or destroy human plurality.
What makes totalitarianism unlike any tyranny before it? In this episode, we explore Hannah Arendt’s landmark work The Origins of Totalitarianism, examining how ideology and terror combine to a...
Who is Leading, Who is Learning?: AI at Work
A new report from MIT has sent shockwaves through the enterprise AI world. According to the State of AI in Business 2025 study, 95% of generative AI pilots deliver zero return on investment.
#ArtificialIntelligence #MultimodalAI #ExplainableAI #PhilosophyOfTechnology #DigitalEthics #NarrativeStructures
What if the real question of AI was not how powerful it becomes, but what kind of stor...
The Weight of Meaning: Horizons, Thresholds and The Unfinished.
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to liminality, ethical responsiveness, and the quiet power of the pause.
#Liminality #Suspension #Bridges #EthicalResponsiveness #PoliticalPhilosophy #HannahArendt #JudithButler #GiorgioAgamben #PhilosophyOfCare
What if the most revealing moments were the ones in which nothing seemed to move? This epis...
How To Live, Given What We Know
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to what resists easy speech—fear, grief, madness, and the strange dignity of love in a mortal world.
#Existentialism #HannahArendt #SimoneWeil #Levinas #Nietzsche #Kierkegaard #MichelFoucault
Beneath the surface of ordinary life move currents we rarely name—fear, silence, madness, love, death, revenge. This episode follows those unde...
The Tyranny of the Unseen: Hidden Architectures of Power, Conscience, and Survival
For anyone drawn to hidden structures, moral courage, and the ethics of seeing.
#PoliticalPhilosophy #HannahArendt #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #SimoneDeBeauvoir #JeanPaulSartre
What do unseen architectures of power ask of us, and what do they take when we do not answer? In this episode, we move past labels and slogans ...
The Present That Won't Leave
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to the strange persistence of the present, the architecture of time, and the politics of repetition.
#Foreverism #GraftonTanner #MarkFisher #CulturalTheory #PoliticalThought
What happens when the present stops passing through us and begins to hold us in place? In this episode, we explore Grafton Tanner’s concept of foreverism—a cultural...
Freedom Requires Form: Ordoliberalism and the Architecture of Care
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to the ethics of structure, the fragility of freedom, and the quiet politics of care.
#Ordoliberalism #WalterEucken #FranzBöhm #WilhelmRöpke #AlexanderRüstow #PoliticalTheory
What keeps freedom alive? In this episode, we look beyond slogans of liberty or the reflex to deregulate, and explore the dee...
Autism: Complete As We Are
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those who sense that truth is not what’s said the loudest—but what survives unedited.
What happens when autistic truth is told without translation? This episode steps outside diagnosis, explanation, or accommodation and enters the lived, rhythmic world of autistic embodiment—on its own terms. Through narrative fragments, sensory precision, and ethical...
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