Tackling The Brain Hack - What's Making You Tick? - a podcast by Ant Biggs

Ant Biggs explores the cognitive, narrative landscape; A human condition of unavoidable complicity, as both hacker and hacked is exposed. A landscape full of danger that appears to be at the same time both difficult to escape but also one in which individuals may still yet claim to be fully responsibility.
This is Episode 11 of COW - the podcast "Tracking The Brain Hack" in which as Yuval Noan Harari might say, the myths that frame our reality are revealed, the deep biological nature of our narrative landscape, the mechanisms that drive social adoption, evolution and extinction. The function of the individual in that dynamic process show how we have been glued together, how our abilities have been turned into superpowers and how we have risen to great heights. But we are more than static automata, simple products of our past. We are an ultimately adaptable species, able to switch from one narrative to another within a moment of evolutionary time.
Uniquely able to swap from niche to niche when required. The trick is to know when the narratives that bind us, are no longer relevant. And to know where these superpowers must take us...

Further episodes of COW - the podcast

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