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10 episodes mention this concept
DrTraceyMarksApr 8, 2026Why You Feel Nothing With Your Partner: Understanding Relational Emotional Numbness
PsychologyEmotional numbnessProtective program/mechanismNervous system shutdownVulnerability as expensive
PredictiveHistoryOct 15, 2025Challenging Scientific Paradigms: A Vibrational Theory of Reality and the Nature of Consciousness
ScienceBig Bang theoryTheory of EvolutionSurvival of the fittestGenetic mutation
psychacksApr 26, 2024The Gift of Nothingness: Seeing the Everyday Miracle Through Radical Perspective Shift
PsychologyNothingnessInfinite VoidUndifferentiated ExperienceConsciousness as an empty field
lexfridmanMay 9, 2023Stephen Wolfram on ChatGPT, Deep vs. Shallow Computation, Computational Irreducibility, and the Nature of the Observer
ScienceLarge Language Models (LLMs)Wolfram AlphaWolfram LanguageNeural Networks- psychacksNov 14, 2022
The Myth of Completion: Why Nothing Ever Truly Ends and How Perspective Shapes Our Understanding of "Done"
PsychologyMyth of completionPerspective biasCreator perspectiveObserver perspective 
HealthyGamerGGMay 5, 2022How to Actually Handle Rejection: Mastering Perception and Communication
Self-DevelopmentRejection sensitivitySelf-perceptionThick skin approachExposure therapy (as a parallel)- HealthyGamerGGApr 4, 2022
Reconnecting with Your Inner Self: Overcoming the 'Dead Inside' Feeling and Finding New Motivation
PsychologyInternal voice/selfIntellect vs. fulfillmentDopaminergic pleasureSurface-level mind 
NewEconomicThinkingOct 1, 2020The Shifting Balance of Control: Human and Machine Agency in the Modern World
Technologythought experimentmachine agencyhuman controltechnological influence- lexfridmanNov 5, 2019
Sean Carroll on the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Alternatives
ScienceQuantum mechanicsMany-Worlds Interpretation (MWI)Schrodinger equationWavefunction - lexfridman
Lex Fridman Discusses Nick Bostrom's Simulation and Doomsday Arguments, Anthropic Reasoning, and Observer Selection Effects
PhilosophySimulation ArgumentBland Principle of IndifferenceAnthropic ReasoningDoomsday Argument