Inside the Mind of a Psychotic - Dr. Ragy Girgis, DemystifySci #410

In this conversation, Columbia University psychiatrist Dr. Ragy Girgis joins DemystifySci to explore why psychological breakdowns appear to be rising in modern society. The discussion examines the limits of current mental health frameworks, the role of medication, and the importance of relationships and community in stabilizing people during periods of distress. The episode also looks at how social media and AI systems can unintentionally reinforce harmful patterns of thinking by mirroring users back to themselves. Together they ask whether the real crisis lies less in individual minds and more in the systemic cages enclosing them.Part 2: https://youtu.be/nBi72lYjmSEPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! 05:39 Have we ever understood psychological distress well?09:38 The culture of medication in modern mental health care13:55 The role of expectation and the therapeutic relationship17:34 Measuring outcomes in psychiatric treatment21:31 Why treatment effectiveness remains controversial22:27 Spiritual frameworks and historical approaches to psychological suffering25:08 What counts as a successful outcome in mental health care27:26 Ritual, belief, and psychological influence33:37 Community, belonging, and long-term stability34:48 Biological complexity behind severe mental conditions37:04 The limits of medication alone38:25 Early support and rebuilding a shared sense of reality41:22 Creativity, emotional intensity, and personality traits43:38 AI systems and the mirroring of unstable thinking46:10 Digital platforms as social infrastructure51:45 Algorithmic incentives and public well-being57:16 Governance, responsibility, and civic health01:00:21 Online cult dynamics and social fragmentation01:02:58 Digital echo chambers versus real community01:05:14 Cultural drivers of psychological distress01:08:41 Media, culture, and rising social instability#mentalhealthawareness #PsychologyPodcast#HumanBehavior#Psychology#SocialMediaPsychology#consciousness #physicspodcast #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Part 2 of our recent conversation with Andres Gomez Emilsson asks whether humanity should create machines capable of real consciousness and intention. We explore how artificial minds would feel, what they would desire, and why their motivations might drift far from human needs. The discussion examines the risks of building entities with their own internal harmony, suffering, and evolutionary direction. What emerges is a sober look at whether a machine god is something humanity actually wants.Part 1: https://youtu.be/sveAvEU9ZZQPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! 00:00:00 Framing of artificial consciousness00:05:39 Limits of simulation and what counts as real experience00:10:10 Architectures that might support unified consciousness00:13:17 Feeling, stakes, and the origins of motivation00:16:02 Binding and coherence in biological and artificial systems00:21:19 Intention, internal experience, and projected futures00:26:27 Should artificial consciousness be created00:29:58 Why people want AGI and how bias shapes belief00:35:29 AI as an amplifier of human intention00:41:14 Tools for autonomy versus creating synthetic beings00:47:04 Social divergence and the future of AI entrepreneurship00:51:17 Artificial consciousness as a new lineage of life00:57:06 Desire, autonomy, and alien motivation01:03:35 Long-tail dynamics of conscious experience01:10:47 Why standard suffering metrics miss the extremes01:12:10 DMT and the treatment of cluster headaches01:20:09 Consciousness distributed through the body01:21:48 Psychedelics and large-scale system recalibration01:26:13 Systems must contain a model of “better” to self-organize01:33:34 Physiological roots of consciousness and future directions #AGI #ArtificialConsciousness #MachineConsciousness #ConsciousnessStudies #QualiaResearch #AIPhilosophy #AIethics #AISafety #FutureOfAI #MindAndMachine #DemystifySci #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

Digital systems can imitate intelligence, but they cannot form the unified inner world that makes a mind awake. Andres Gomez Emilsson explains why coherence, boundaries, and lived integration are essential features of consciousness that code alone cannot replicate...yet. The conversation explores the limits of simulation, the illusion of depth in generative models, and why machine behavior is not the same as experience. What emerges is a clearer picture of where digital minds stop and where our minds begin. If AGI is really our goal, we seem to be going about it all wrong. And that's a big "if."Part 2: https://youtu.be/zJ08l61JI58PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Rethinking intelligence in machines00:05:16 Introducing the Co-sentience Initiative00:08:24 Limits of digital consciousness00:13:03 Why simulated systems fall short00:17:24 Beyond local update rules00:22:32 PageRank and boundary-based consciousness00:29:10 Consciousness as boundary-constrained integration00:33:06 Why AI lacks human-like expression00:36:17 Will, personality, and authentic agency00:43:32 Consciousness as veilance optimization00:47:01 Harmony, surprise, and predictive filtering00:53:45 Will, intuition, and deeper internal drives01:00:18 Selfhood, subagents, and integrated experience01:07:28 Simulation vs physical implementation01:13:29 Power without consciousness #consciousness, #artificialintelligence, #agi, #machineintelligence, #philosophyofmind, #cognition, #neuroscience, #computationalmodels, #aisafety, #emergence, #complexsystems, #qualia, #intelligence, #technology #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

In this episode, part 2 of our latest chat with @Formscapes , we map the emerging landscape of modern aether theory, tracing the structural ideas proposed by researchers who’ve appeared on DemystifySci. What begins as a survey becomes a deeper look at why so many independent models are quietly aligning around similar mechanical principles. As the conversation unfolds, the old boundaries between fields dissolve, revealing a shared intuition about the medium beneath observable phenomena. Ultimately, the shadows feel less like obscurity and more like the place where a new framework is taking shape.Part 1: https://youtu.be/R8MbZ8DI1ZAPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Requirements for an Aether Theory04:11 Aether as Foundational Medium08:12 Structural Ether and Material Complexity13:16 Limits of Mathematical Modeling20:07 Material Principles and Subunit Configuration23:13 Elasticity, Shear, and the Mechanics of Light26:42 Subunit Connectivity and Solid Ether Models32:12 Mass as a Foundational Concept36:00 Relational Physics and Michelson–Morley Reconsidered41:16 Observational vs Controlled Science47:44 Questioning Particle Physics Paradigms50:58 Structural Failures in Stellar Models57:37 Abstraction, Mystery, and Scientific Authority01:11:22 Cosmological Patchwork and Theoretical Contradictions01:19:09 Reclaiming Comprehensibility Through Structural Thinking01:25:07 A Renaissance of Shared Understanding #Aether, #quantumphysics, #Physics, #FoundationalPhysics, #Reality #MechanicalModels #fields , #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

In this first part of our latest conversation with Kehlan Morgan of @Formscapes we trace the aether from ancient cosmology to its quiet removal from modern physics. More than a discarded medium for light, the aether once served as the bridge between mind and matter, form and force, perception and law. Its rejection marked a profound philosophical shift from material mediation to abstract formalism and reshaped how reality itself is defined. If the aether refuses to die, it may be because the questions it once posed are as relevant to the modern world of quantum physics as the ancient world of gods and magic.Part 2: https://youtu.be/q7I94A_vvtYPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Why the Aether Still Matters00:05:56 From Myth to Mechanical Substrate00:09:41 Descartes, Newton, and Early Limits00:12:57 The Philosophical Rejection of Aether00:15:28 Mind, Matter, and the Lost Bridge00:19:10 Consciousness and the Blind Spot of Modern Physics00:22:44 Physics vs Biology as First Principles00:26:36 Laws, Forms, and Perception00:31:08 Structure, Elements, and Mediation00:35:13 Geometry and the Inverse Square Law00:41:08 Material Causes vs Abstract Formalism00:47:26 Reuniting the Physical and Experiential00:51:34 Aether as Interface of Mind and Matter00:57:10 Agency and the Emergence of Life01:00:10 Interiority Across Scales01:06:10 Physics Trapped by Its Own Framework01:12:31 Randomness, Intention, and a Unifying Hypothesis #Aether, #Physics, #philosophy #Consciousness, #NatureOfReality, #quantumphysics , #TheoreticalPhysics, #PhilosophyPodcast, #panpsychism , #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

In Part 2 of our conversation with Leo Gura, the discussion moves from abstract truth into the territory most people avoid: morality, evil, love, and survival. If everything is one, what becomes of good and bad? If reality is infinite consciousness, are our moral systems discoveries or inventions shaped by fear and self-preservation? The episode wrestles with whether absolute truth dissolves morality or reveals a deeper foundation beneath it, and what it would mean to live from that realization without collapsing into nihilism.Part 1: https://youtu.be/rLYFHXf1xXUPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go!00:03:55 Good, Bad, and Absolute Ontology00:06:17 Stages of Moral Development00:09:41 Expanding the Self to Infinity00:12:03 Relative vs Absolute Morality00:17:24 Accountability Within Oneness00:21:35 Law, Consent, and Moral Relativism00:27:22 When Love Becomes Naive00:30:24 Survival Corrupts Pure Ideas00:33:02 Radical Open-Mindedness00:37:13 Good and Evil as Human Constructs00:42:01 Can Evil Exist Ontologically?00:46:16 Trauma, Awakening, and Survival00:51:10 Jesus, Suffering, and Infinite Love00:55:06 Ontology of Love and Infinity00:59:05 Infinity, God, and Absolute Reality01:06:40 Unity in Nature and Daily Life01:11:18 Integration and Practical Awakening01:16:23 Consciousness Beyond Humanity01:19:41 Immortality Through Infinity01:21:20 Closing Reflections and Invitation #Nonduality, #Consciousness, #Awakening, #AbsoluteTruth, #PhilosophyOfMind, #MoralPhilosophy, #InfiniteLove, #SelfInquiry, #SpiritualAwakening, #TruthSeeking, #PhilosophicalDebate, #skepticism , #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

This conversation confronts a tension most people avoid: the conflict between experiencing the full truth and survival. Leo Gura argues that pursuing absolute truth dismantles identity, morality, and even humanity’s instinct to preserve itself. The discussion explores nonduality, awakening, institutional rot, and the psychological cost of radical skepticism. At stake is a stark question: do we ultimately serve truth, or does it serve us?Part 2: https://youtu.be/zeHVGPS56BMPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Nonduality00:02:18 Reality as One: Nonduality Explained00:05:33 Meaning Beyond Materialism00:07:58 Rationality, Intuition, and the Infinite00:10:01 Fundamentalism in Religion and Physics00:16:20 Survival, Truth, and Cultural Systems00:19:51 Awakening and Absolute Consciousness00:23:20 Truth Versus Survival Instincts00:27:12 The Cost of Pursuing Absolute Truth00:30:00 Total Skepticism and Institutional Limits00:35:18 Intuition, Fallibility, and Discovery00:39:52 Truth Obsession Versus Curiosity00:42:43 The Book That Triggered the Shift00:49:00 Post-Survival Malaise in Modern Life00:53:08 Truth as Anchor in Cultural Collapse00:57:45 Evolution Through Consciousness01:00:25 When Survival Undermines Truth01:04:50 Absolute Good Versus Human Morality01:08:22 Projection, Duality, and Value01:13:08 The Risk of Anti-Human Philosophy01:15:54 Two Competing Truth Systems01:18:39 Truth as Liberation and Moral Reconstruction #Nonduality, #Awakening, #Consciousness, #truthseekers , #Philosophy, #Existence, #SelfRealization, #Metaphysics, #Morality, #EgoDeath, , #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

In part two of our conversation with Dmitry Osenilo, we dive deeper into his gaseous aether model and its attempt to unify light, electromagnetism, and gravity through hydrodynamics. Photons become vortex streets, electric and magnetic fields reduce to pressure gradients and rotational flow, and gravity emerges from thermodynamic imbalance in a compressible medium. Rather than treating fields as abstract entities, this framework insists on mechanical motion, viscosity, density, and conserved flow as the true foundations of physical law. It is a wager that if nature makes sense, it will do so in motion you can picture, not symbols you must accept.Part 1: https://youtu.be/eGBmuwI7X6IPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Return to the aether framework00:05:54 When a gas can carry transverse waves00:09:31 Mass, conservation laws, and hidden assumptions00:14:14 Why gaseous aether fits extreme conditions00:20:31 Atoms as toroidal vortices00:27:48 Vortex stability and atomic longevity00:32:49 Photon as a vortex street00:35:01 Light versus electromagnetic radiation00:41:13 Flow-based light emission and reflection00:50:50 Electromagnetism as aether flow00:53:26 Electric and magnetic fields redefined01:02:27 Gravity as thermo-diffusion in aether01:05:31 Entanglement and faster-than-light claims01:08:06 Experimental predictions and new designs01:11:14 Reflections#physics, #aether, #vortex , #fluiddynamics, #hydrodynamics, #electromagnetism, #gravity, #photon , #theoreticalphysics, #quantumphysics , #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

This episode asks a simple question: if forces act, what is actually moving? Physicist Dmitrii Osenilo revives a gaseous aether model built from hydrodynamics, vortex motion, and mechanical principles rather than abstract fields. Light, charge, and spin are reframed as structured flows in a compressible medium, with Maxwell’s equations emerging from fluid dynamics instead of postulated forces. It is an argument that physics should not stop at mathematics, but push toward a coherent, visualizable account of what the vacuum is made of and how it moves.Part 2: https://youtu.be/7F9bwPm_iQMPATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Aether Returns: A Hydrodynamic Alternative00:02:07 Building a Gaseous Aether Model00:06:04 Vortices and the Michelson-Morley Revisit00:09:46 Why Mechanical Models Were Abandoned00:17:09 What Do We Actually Measure in Physics?00:20:08 Aether Drift, Relativity, and Interpretation00:23:20 The Metaphysics Behind Modern Physics00:26:24 Should Nature Make Mechanical Sense?00:28:40 Mathematics vs Physical Reality00:31:14 What Makes a Good Scientific Theory?00:34:08 Computational Limits and Lost Hydrodynamics00:39:04 Vortices as the Basis of Electrodynamics00:43:51 Why Aether Must Be a Gas00:48:48 The Problem with Elastic Solid Aether00:53:19 Why Transverse Waves Matter00:55:14 Electromagnetism as Vortex Flow01:00:04 Particles as Toroidal Vortices#physics #aether , #fluiddynamics , #vortex , #hydrodynamics , #quantumphysics, #gravity #Electrodynamics, #toroid , #astrophysics #physicspodcast, #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

DemystifySci is the place where we bring people together in search of the theories that will change the world, and Paradigm Drift is your chance to have a hand in that future. Theorists, randomly chosen, get 60 seconds to present their revolutionary idea... and then we see if it's gonna stand the test of time or if it's back into the tank for a little while longer.PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! Paradigm Drift: how the show works00:02:18 Returning guest and research updates00:03:34 Death, meaning, and the limits of mortality00:07:32 Consciousness, fear, and letting go of death00:13:53 Morality, judgment, and life review myths00:19:25 Quantum choice, discreteness, and randomness00:25:06 Least action as a discrete network00:29:39 Dimensional analysis, Higgs energy, and constants00:36:13 Cosmology, observation limits, and evolving universes00:40:22 Time as the fundamental unit of measurement00:43:21 Free will, attention, and inhibition00:51:12 Willpower as a trainable physical resource00:55:02 Edge theory and topological particle models01:03:00 Human experience behind abstract theories01:09:05 Kundalini, electromagnetism, and physiology01:18:50 Physics metaphors for spiritual experience01:24:45 Dark matter as compressed wavelength states01:31:10 Self-taught physics and interdisciplinary thinking01:39:36 Consciousness as matter and intelligent evolution01:47:36 Thought, embodiment, and physical reality01:54:41 Substrate physics and unified mechanics02:05:36 Vortices, pressure, and force mediation02:14:21 Closing reflections on first-principles inquiry#ParadigmDrift, #FirstPrinciples, #FoundationalPhysics, #QuantumFoundations, #FreeWill, #Consciousness, #AlternativeTheories, #PhysicsBeyondMath, #SubstratePhysics, #Vortices, #TimeIsFundamental, #DarkMatter, #Cosmology, #IndependentThinkers, #RethinkingReality #physicspodcast, #openmic #philosophypodcast MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaDSUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rssMAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671