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Minding Global Mental Health: Empowering the (Extra)Ordinary with Vikram Patel

In this episode of See See by Ceci, we're joined by Vikram Patel, global mental health leader, psychiatrist, and the Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He confronts a contradiction at the heart of the twenty-first-century mind: why mental health is declining in the wealthiest nations, with record resources at hand, while some of the most effective solutions are emerging from communities that have almost none. In this wide-ranging conversation, Professor Patel walks us through what he calls the great mental health paradox and its two roots: a reductionist system that answers suffering with a prescription, and an individualism in which "disconnection is like a virus." He traces the asylum and the diagnostic manual; fifty years and tens of billions of dollars that have yielded no biomarker and no new drugs; the loneliness epidemic; the grip of poverty and inequality; and India's rise in youth suicide. Then comes his own answer: the community health worker, most often a woman, most often unpaid, trained to deliver a six-session treatment that cured two-thirds of people with severe depression and kept well years on. With reflections from criminologist Stephen Schoenthaler, neuroscientists Rudolph Tanzi and John Cryan, jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, writer Andrew Solomon, psychiatrist Richard Mollica, philosophers Paul Thagard and Stephen Cave, choreographer Alexander Whitley, sixteen-year-old activist Alexander Schmitz of Young Minds for Global Health, and three-Michelin-starred chef Eric Vildgaard, the episode gathers voices you would rarely find in one room. How minds this different meet on common ground is what we leave for the listening to reveal. This episode is about a scientist fluent in the resources of both the biomedical clinic and the community's own healing knowledge, and about the richness of a simple truth he keeps returning to, that what makes a life well is connection, and who reminds us that when it comes to mental health, we are all developing nations. Above all, this conversation is about the most quietly radical proposition medicine can make: that the cure for much of our suffering is not somewhere out of reach, but near at hand, in the bonds we build between us. *Vikram Patel is the Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He co-founded Sangath, the Indian NGO honored with WHO and MacArthur awards, has co-led two Lancet Commissions on global mental health, and is a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. His honors include the Pardes Humanitarian Prize, an Honorary OBE, the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, and a place on Time's 100 most influential people (2015). Vikram Patel, M.B.,B.S., Ph.D. Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/vikram-patel https://www.centreforglobalmentalhealth.org/about-us/our-team/professor-vikram-patel/ Recommended: BOOK: Where There Is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual (2nd ed.) by Vikram Patel and Charlotte Hanlon, Cambridge University Press, 2018. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1909726834 PAPERS: Patel, V., & Rahman, A. (2023). Empowering the (extra)ordinary. Dædalus, 152(4), 245–261. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_02041 Patel, V., & Kleinman, A. (2003). Poverty and common mental disorders in developing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 81(8), 609–615. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14576893/ Patel, V., Saxena, S., Lund, C., Thornicroft, G., Baingana, F., Bolton, P., … UnÜtzer, J. (2018). The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development. The Lancet, 392(10157), 1553–1598. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31612-X https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31612-X/abstract TED TALKS: Mental health for all, by all: Vikram Patel at TEDxGateway Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all | TED Talk Why don't we care? | Vikram Patel | TEDxLSHTM SANGATH: https://www.sangath.in SUNDAR ACRONYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS-p4Piggy8&t=423s

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Intelligence, Immortality and AI with Stephen J. Cave

In this episode of See See by Ceci, Dr Stephen Cave, philosopher of technology, intelligence and the human quest to outlive death, joins us in our Berlin studio. At heart, this episode turns on two questions most of us would sooner leave undisturbed: why do human beings insist on ranking one another, and why can we not make our peace with the fact that we die? Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Co-Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity, both at the University of Cambridge, Dr Cave took his PhD in philosophy at Cambridge before spending the better part of a decade as a British Foreign Office diplomat. He is the author of Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization, a New Scientist Book of the Year, and, with the philosopher John Martin Fischer, Should You Choose to Live Forever?: A Debate. He is also co-editor of AI Narratives, Imagining AI and Feminist AI, all published by Oxford University Press. In this wide-ranging conversation, Dr Cave traces the idea of "intelligence" across two and a half thousand years, from Aristotle's "natural slaves" to Francis Galton's invention of both eugenics and the IQ test, showing how so slender a concept came to serve as the perfect instrument for justifying patriarchy, colonialism and scientific racism. It is precisely this buried history, he argues, that explains the dread super-intelligent machines now inspire in us. The real peril, he suggests, lies not in what artificial intelligence might do to us, but in the deep-seated biases and failings already entrenched our societies, that is, in what we might be tempted to do to one another with it: in surveillance, in the automation of labour, and, above all, in the quiet erosion of the human relationships that hold a society together and lend our lives their meaning. He then turns to mortality: the four stories every civilisation tells itself to outwit death, why a genuine immortality would prove a curse rather than a gift, and how our very finitude is the thing that makes a life worth living. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Borges's deathless troglodytes, from Dorian Gray to the laboratories where great fortunes are now spent in pursuit of longer life, he asks what such a life is truly worth if it is not also a life of meaning, and warns that "work, scroll, repeat" is no less hollow at two hundred than at eighty. He arrives, in the end, at something disarmingly simple: an answer that has rather less to do with intelligence than we might expect, and everything to do with finitude, and with what, and whom, a life is spent upon. With reflections from the philosopher and cognitive scientist Paul Thagard on whether a machine can ever truly care; from the posthumanist scholar N. Katherine Hayles on the human aura in the age of the deep fake and the promised revision of the Enlightenment; from the drummer, composer and Berklee professor Terri Lyne Carrington on music and the eternal present; from the historian Philip Matyszak on the Roman afterlife and the building of "moral muscles"; and from the cognitive neuropsychologist Alfonso Caramazza on the remarkable flexibility of the human mind. This is an episode about power and the stories it tells to justify itself; about the older stories we tell to cheat death; and about a quiet, radical proposition: that to be human is not to be the cleverest thing in the room, but to know that our days are numbered, and to spend them building and delighting in our bonds with one another. LINKS & INFORMATION: https://www.lcfi.ac.uk/people/stephen-cave X (Twitter): @stephenjcave TED speaker: https://www.ted.com/speakers/stephen_cave BOOKS: Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization (Crown, 2012), a New Scientist book of the year: https://penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/book/?isbn=9780307884916 Should You Choose to Live Forever? A Debate, with John Martin Fischer (Routledge, 2023):https://www.routledge.com/Should-You-Choose-to-Live-Forever-A-Debate/Fischer-Cave/p/book/9780367343897 AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, co-edited with Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon (Oxford University Press, 2020):https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ai-narratives-9780198846666 Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines, co-edited with Kanta Dihal (Oxford University Press, 2023):https://global.oup.com/academic/product/imagining-ai-9780192865366 Feminist AI, co-edited (Oxford University Press, 2023):https://global.oup.com/academic/product/feminist-ai-9780192889898 Recommended Articles: Stephen Cave, "Intelligence: A History" (also published under the title "On the dark history of intelligence as domination"), Aeon, 2017.https://aeon.co/essays/on-the-dark-history-of-intelligence-as-domination The academic paper (peer-reviewed, fuller and more technical): Stephen Cave, "The Problem with Intelligence: Its Value-Laden History and the Future of AI," Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2020.https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3375627.3375813

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The Tapestry of Consciousness and the Self: Winning Over Alzheimer’s with Rudolph E. Tanzi

In this episode of See See by Ceci, Rudolph Tanzi, one of the world’s most influential neuroscientists, takes us inside the mind as it builds, and as it begins to come undone. Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit and co-director of the McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-founder of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, and named by TIME one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Tanzi co-discovered the very first Alzheimer’s genes and helped create the groundbreaking “Alzheimer’s in a Dish” model that has transformed the search for a cure. In this luminous and deeply human conversation, Tanzi traces the disease from its first description by Alois Alzheimer in 1906 (the strange plaques and tangles no one believed could cause a mind to slip away), to the golden age of treatment now within reach. He walks us through the three pathologies of plaques, tangles and inflammation; the genes he discovered and the blood test that can now see the disease coming; the brain’s housekeeper cells, the microglia, and their Macbeth-like turn from caretakers to killers; and the kitchen-sink logic of the drugs his lab is racing to trials: turn off the tap, unclog the drain, stop the overflow. He shares SHIELD, his lifestyle plan for brain health, and the gut–brain axis that lets food become medicine for the mind. And then the conversation goes deep. Tanzi reflects on memory as a tapestry woven from a hundred billion neurons; on the hippocampus, the little seahorse that gives the world its context; on why music memory survives when almost everything else is gone. He speaks, with rare openness, about awareness and the self, about lucid dreaming and terminal lucidity, about the feelings of beauty, awe and love that he believes AI may mimic but never be, and finally about his conviction that everything is, ultimately, consciousness. Along the way we hear neuroscientist John Cryan on the gut microbiome and the food that feeds the brain; Cognitive neuropsychologist and Harvard Professor Alfonso Caramazza on prosopagnosia and the emotion that endures when recognition fails; four-time Grammy winner Terri Lyne Carrington and the documentary Alive Inside; photographer Domingo Milella on water, minerals and the camera obscura; parapsychology researcher Dean Radin on the taboo edges of mind; and a chorus of artists, Gregory Halpern, Marina Viotti, Andrei Ioniță, Cecilia Rivera and Kerem Hassan, on creativity, flow, and the blurring of time and space, a current that runs through Tanzi himself, a prolific musician who has recorded and performed with the likes of Aerosmith, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp. This is an episode about a terrifying disease, and about the relentless creativity, courage and compassion working to defeat it. About what memory is, what the self is, and what remains when both are taken. And about a scientist who insists, against one of the cruellest diseases of our time, now assures us: "I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel." Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. Director, McCance Center for Brain Health, Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Mass. General Brigham Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Faculty profile at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease: https://www.mghmind.org/faculty/Tanzi Prof. Tanzi’s official lab page at Massachusetts General Hospital:https://www.massgeneral.org/neurology/research/genetics-aging-research-unit/tanzi-lab **Donations: “The MGH Genetics and Aging Research Unit" Mailed to:** Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital 114 16th StreetCharlestown, MA, 02129 OR: You can click on “Give Now” on either the top ribbon or the bottom of our website McCance Center for Brain Health It will take you to: Make a Gift to Mass General Music used in this episode with permission and as courtesy. "Remember Me" written by Rudolph E. Tanzi and Chris Mann. Vocals by Chris Mann. In aid of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund. https://curealz.org/news-and-events/remember-me-chris-mann-and-rudy-tanzi/ Original piano compositions by Rudolph E. Tanzi: "The Lost Ones", "Future Unknown", "Nitrogen", "Van Gogh", "Acceptance (for Mom)", "The Good Journey" and "Breathless". From the composer's catalogue at n1m.com/rudytanzi, made freely available by the artist. Guitar by Andrew Yoo. https://www.n1m.com/rudytanzi Recommended Book Rudolph E. Tanzi with Ann B. Parson, Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease (New York: Perseus Publishing, 2000).

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The Posthuman Mind Uncoupled: From Bacteria to AI with N. Katherine Hayles

In this episode of See See by Ceci, N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, James B. Duke Professor Emerita at Duke, Guggenheim Fellow and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joins us from the rare crossroads at which she has worked for forty years: literature, science, technology and, now, artificial intelligence. Trained as a chemist at Rochester and Caltech before crossing into literary scholarship, she is a foremost authority on the relations between literature and computational media, and the author of How We Became Posthuman (1999) and, most recently, Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts (University of Chicago Press, 2025). In this rich and demanding conversation, Hayles redefines cognition as the interpretation of information in contexts that connect with meaning, a capacity she ascribes to bacteria, plants, fungi, animals and, increasingly, AI. She walks us through her integrated cognitive framework and the SIRAL criteria (sensing, interpreting, responding adaptively, anticipating, learning); through von Uexküll's umwelt, the world each species spins for itself; through cognitive assemblages in which humans, microbes and machines decide together; and through her sharp distinction between actors and agents. As a literary critic, she also turns her gaze on AI-produced literature, on hallucinations as imagination, and on Walter Benjamin's aura in the age of the deep fake. With reflections from neuroscientist John Cryan on the gut microbiome, historian Richard Bourke on the Kantian self, classicist Richard P. Martin on AI and imagination, and choreographer Alexander Whitley on embodiment. This is an episode about the uncoupling of cognition from consciousness, Hayles' most crucial move. About a posthuman in which the human itself is being rewritten. And about the very determined optimism of a thinker who insists that hope is not the reward at the end of the work, but the precondition for it. N. Katherine Hayles is the author of twelve influential books, including the landmark How We Became Posthuman, widely regarded as a seminal foundation for posthumanism, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005), Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (2017), and her latest, Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts (University of Chicago Press, 2025). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation, Hayles has transformed our understanding of the digital age. LINKS & INFO https://nkhayles.com https://scholars.duke.edu/person/katherine.hayles https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/hayles-katherine-n/ **Recommended Reading: ** Books _Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts. _Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. Her most recent book, developing an "integrated cognitive framework" that extends meaning-making across lifeforms from bacteria to plants, animals, humans, and some forms of artificial intelligence, framed partly as a response to ecological crisis and anthropocentrism. Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Arguably her most important later work, expanding cognition beyond conscious thought to include nonconscious processes in both humans and machines. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Introduces her influential idea of "technogenesis" and distinguishes close, hyper, and machine reading. Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Drawn from her Wellek Library Lectures, it examines what books become in a computational age. The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Her two early books, which trace scientific field models and chaos theory in twentieth-century literature and predate the digital-media work she is best known for. Three of her most important papers "Cognition Everywhere: The Rise of the Cognitive Nonconscious and the Costs of Consciousness" New Literary History, vol. 45, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 199–220. This is the seed essay for Unthought. It introduces the cognitive nonconscious and argues that meaning-making extends well beyond conscious thought. Freely available PDF: https://publicityreform.github.io/findbyimage/readings/hayles.pdf "The Cognitive Nonconscious: Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities" Critical Inquiry, vol. 42, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 783–808. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/686950 This develops the case that the humanities need to take nonconscious cognition seriously, and is one of the central building blocks of Unthought. "Cognitive Assemblages: Technical Agency and Human Interactions" Critical Inquiry, vol. 43, no. 1 (Autumn 2016): 32–55. This introduces her concept of the "cognitive assemblage," the idea that cognition is distributed across humans, nonhumans, and computational media. It is the chapter-length argument that Bacteria to AI later extends into the integrated cognitive framework, so it bridges both books you focused on. Please note that the two Critical Inquiry pieces sit behind the University of Chicago Press paywall, so listeners without institutional access may only reach the abstracts, whereas the New Literary History essay has a freely available PDF at the link above. If the episode description benefits from a fully open bridge to Bacteria to AI specifically, there is also a 2022 published conversation between Hayles and Mary Zournazi on creativity and nonconscious cognition that is openly accessible. I can track down its exact citation and link if you would like to include it.

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Intelligence Without Brains with Toby Kiers

In this episode of See See by Ceci, Toby Kiers, one of the world's most daring thinkers at the intersection of evolutionary biology, economics and ecology, takes us into the living web beneath our feet. University Research Chair and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tyler Prize laureate, MacArthur "genius" Fellow, Spinoza Prize winner and co-founder of SPUN, the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, Kiers has spent more than two decades asking the questions most of us never think to pose: How does a brainless organism make decisions? and, What is it like to be a fungus? In this rich and revelatory conversation, Kiers reflects on symbiosis as the hidden driver of evolution, from the first algae crawling onto land 450 million years ago to a soybean root in a Dutch laboratory today; on cheating as a force of innovation rather than a moral failure; on the exquisite sensitivity of fungal networks that respond to vibration, breath and light; on sanctions that are swift, severe and ingenious; on what she calls "punk science", research that crosses disciplines and refuses to accept the world as given; and on the humbling moment in Ecuador when members of the Sarayaku community listened to her describe her findings and replied: Of course this is happening. We knew this! This is part of our belief! She tells us about her team, the "underground astronauts" mapping the world beneath our feet, and about fungi as a "library of solutions" for a planet in crisis: a circulatory system that processes some 13 billion tons of carbon each year, roughly a third of all fossil fuel emissions. Along the way, we hear former Harvard neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander pose a question on the Cambrian explosion and evolutionary partnerships; we hear from Professor Katherine Hayles on the Umwelt, on actors and agents, and the uncoupling of consciousness from cognition; from ecologist Carl Safina on the cooperation between dolphins and fishermen and the worm's first aesthetic judgement; and from choreographer Alexander Whitley on the flow states that technology can both disrupt and reveal, each voice opening a new dimension of what it means to sense, to decide, and to belong on a living planet. This is an episode about the wonder beneath the soil: biological, strategic and ancient, namely the circulatory system that connects all life on earth. About the courageous shift in mindset to acknowledge the ground we walk on not as inert matter but as intelligent beings, capable of supporting universes above their own. **LINKS & INFO: ** @tobykiers @spununderground @spun.youth https://www.tobykiers.com https://www.spun.earth For latest scientific publications: https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/toby-kiers We extend our warmest thanks to Bionics and the Wires for their kind courtesy in allowing us to feature the music selected for the excerpt by Jon Ross. Music used with permission and as a courtesy from Bionics and the Wires. https://www.youtube.com/@BionicandtheWires https://bionicandthewires.com

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Beautiful Wild Minds with Carl Safina

In this episode of See See by Ceci, Carl Safina, one of the world's most eloquent and mindful voices for the living Earth, MacArthur Fellowship laureate, and author of environmental classics including Beyond Words, Becoming Wild, and Alfie and Me, takes us on a journey across species and into the very nature of mind itself. Travel with us into the open ocean, the deep forest, and beyond, in the company of whales, wolves, elephants, and owls, and discover what consciousness looks like when we stop assuming it belongs only to us. Safina is the inaugural Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and founder of the Safina Center. As a scientist, he helped ban high-seas drift nets and reform U.S. fishing policy. For decades, he has been asking the questions most of us never think to pose: What is it like to be an elephant mourning a lost companion? How do sperm whale clans announce who they are in patterns of clicks as precise as Morse code? And what does a seven-year-old screech owl named Alfie, who still calls to the man who raised her, teach us about trust, love, and identity? In this wide-ranging and deeply moving conversation, Safina reflects on culture and de-extinction; on cognition that thinks in echolocation, intelligence that lives in a pod's shared memory, awareness that grieves, plans, plays, and recognizes itself in another. He considers why the most astonishing thing about animals is not what we discover about them but how estranged we have become from our own world, and dwells on beauty as a fundamental force in evolution, not an ornament added once the basics are in place, but the very thing that makes the basics worth having. This is an episode about kinship: biological, emotional, moral, and cognitive. About the courage to see the world not as ours to dominate but as a big family we all belong to. **LINKS & INFO: ** https://www.carlsafina.org https://www.safinacenter.org Instagram: @csafina; @safinacenter BOOKS: https://www.carlsafina.org/books https://you.stonybrook.edu/somas/?s=Carl+Safina

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Mind’s Ancestral Gatekeepers with Terri Lyne Carrington

What is it about rhythm that dissolves separation and draws us into a shared pulse? At the heart of this episode lies a quiet but unshakable conviction: that every life, every struggle, every creative breakthrough, is a quest for freedom. Few voices today carry that conviction with more authority than Terri Lyne Carrington, four-time Grammy winner, NEA Jazz Master, and one of the most vital figures in music of our time. In this conversation, she traces the search for freedom from its deepest roots to its most urgent expressions in the present. It begins with a child at a drum kit, and a family sensing something uncanny, a story that reaches back across generations, and across oceans, to a lineage in which rhythm was never only sound, but memory, identity, and a spiritual code passed through the hands of those entrusted to keep it alive. From there, Terri takes us into what jazz truly is at its core: a kind of liberation theology. Born of displacement and oppression, it became a communal act of survival, intellectual, radically creative, radically free. And it is in that freedom, expressed through improvisation, that something remarkable happens: boundaries begin to stretch, time itself begins to bend, and the music reaches far beyond those who first gave it voice. But as you'll discover, Terri is not only conscious of history, she is making it. Through the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, she is carrying that same liberating impulse into new territory, challenging the hyper-masculine structures that have shaped jazz for decades and opening doors for voices that might otherwise have gone unheard. With this, she brings music into some of the most urgent conversations of our time: gender equality, and the building of a truly universal legacy. A vibrant episode, infused with Terri's ancestral rhythm and potent intellect, in which she returns us to the essential elements of rhythm itself: its flow, its healing power, and its quiet, seductive pull into that spiritual place which is eternal: the present. Why drummers are the mind's gatekeepers, and what they are guarding that is so much greater than music itself, is what this episode invites you to discover. **LINKS & INFO: ** https://www.terrilynecarrington.com https://college.berklee.edu/jazz-gender-justice We extend our warmest thanks to Terri Lyne Carrington, ACT Music + Vision GmbH, Whaling City Sound, Candid Records, LLC, and Motéma Music, LLC for their kind courtesy in allowing us to feature the music selected for this episode. MUSIC CREDITS: Album: Jazz Is a Spirit (2002) Performed by Terri Lyne Carrington ℗ & © 2002 ACT Music + Vision GmbH Courtesy of ACT Music + Vision GmbH. Used with permission. Track used from the album: – "Journey Agent" — composed by Terri Lyne Carrington Album: Excursions and Adventures (2020) Performed by Tim Ray, Terri Lyne Carrington, and John Patitucci ℗ & © 2020 Whaling City Sound Courtesy of Whaling City Sound. Used with permission. Tracks used from the album: – "Yours Is My Heart Alone" (from The Land of Smiles) — composed by Franz Lehár – "Nothing From Nothing" — composed by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher – "Gone, Not Forgotten" — composed by Tim Ray – "Yo 11" — composed by Tim Ray Album: New Standards, Vol. 1 (2022) Performed by Terri Lyne Carrington ℗ & © 2022 Terri Lyne Carrington. All rights reserved. Under exclusive worldwide license to Candid Records, LLC. Courtesy of Candid Records. Used with permission. Tracks used from the album: – "Throw It Away" — composed by Abbey Lincoln – "Unchanged" — composed by Marta Sanchez – "Wind Flower" — composed by Sara Cassey – "Ima" — composed by Anat Cohen – "Moments" — composed by Eliane Elias – "Two Hearts (Lawns)" — composed by Carla Bley Album: We Insist 2025! (2025) Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell (featuring Milena Casado, Morgan Guerin, Simon Moullier, and Matthew Stevens) ℗ & © 2025 Candid Records, LLC Courtesy of Candid Records. Used with permission. Tracks used from the album: – "Freedom Day (Part 1)" — composed by Max Roach, lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr. – "Triptych: Resolve / Resist / Reimagine" — composed by Terri Lyne Carrington and Christie Dashiell" Album: Matthew Stevens (2026) Matthew Stevens (self-titled) ℗ & © 2026 Candid Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Courtesy of Candid Records. Used with permission. Track used from the album: – "Who Does She Hope To Be?" — composed by Sonny Sharrock Performed by Matthew Stevens and Terri Lyne Carrington, featuring Jeff Parker Album: Waiting Game (2019) Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science (featuring Esperanza Spalding, Matthew Stevens, and Aaron Parks) ℗ 2019 Ajari Music, LLC, under exclusive license to Motéma Music, LLC © 2019 Ajari Music, LLC Courtesy of Motéma Music. Used with permission. Track used from the album: – "Dreams and Desperate Measures, Pt. 2" — composed by Terri Lyne Carrington, Aaron Parks, Matthew Stevens, and Esperanza Spalding (improvised suite) Standalone track "Can't Resist" (demo) Written, performed, and produced by Terri Lyne Carrington (all instruments performed by Terri Lyne Carrington) Demo recording, prior to the studio release ℗ & © Terri Lyne Carrington / Ajari Music Courtesy of the artist. Used with permission. Where can I get the above-mentioned Terri Lyne Carrington’s Music? https://www.terrilynecarrington.com https://candidrecords.shop.musictoday.com/dept/terri-lyne-carrington?cp=114189114341114652 https://whalingcitysound.com/recordings/wcs-119-tim-ray-excursions-and-adventures/ https://motema.com/artists/terri-lyne-carrington-and-social-science/ https://www.actmusic.com/artists/terri-lyne-carrington/ For intro song Jazz Is a Spirit (2002) ©: Direct link to the album “Journey Agent©”: https://www.qobuz.com/de-de/album/jazz-is-a-spirit-terri-lyne-carrington/0614427940827 Berklee College of Music Terri Lyne Carrington Position: Artistic Director/Founder, Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Affiliated Departments: Berklee Global Jazz Institute Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Professional Performance Division https://college.berklee.edu/people/terri-lyne-carrington https://guides.library.berklee.edu/JGJ Scholar Papers and Scholar Information mentioned in our conversation: Music for Abolition: https://ias.ucsc.edu/visualizing-abolition/music-for-abolition/ Visualizing Abolition : https://ias.ucsc.edu/visualizing-abolition/ Drum training induces long-term plasticity in the cerebellum and connected cortical thickness Bruchhage MMK, Amad A, Draper SB, Seidman J, Lacerda L, Laguna PL, Lowry RG, Wheeler J, Robertson A, Dell'Acqua F, Smith MS, Williams SCR. Drum training induces long-term plasticity in the cerebellum and connected cortical thickness. Sci Rep. 2020 Jun 22;10(1):10116. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65877-2. PMID: 32572037; PMCID: PMC7308330. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7308330/ Communication of emotion via drumming: dual-brain imaging with functional near-infrared spectroscopy Rojiani R, Zhang X, Noah A, Hirsch J. Communication of emotion via drumming: dual-brain imaging with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2018 Oct 25;13(10):1047-1057. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsy076. PMID: 30215809; PMCID: PMC6204489. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30215809/ Drumming To Communicate Emotion: Dual-Brain Imaging Informs An Intervention In A Carceral Setting Rojiani, Rahil, "Drumming To Communicate Emotion: Dual-Brain Imaging Informs An Intervention In A Carceral Setting" (2019). Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library. 3527. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl/3527/

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Digital Body: Mind, Tension, and Perception with Alexander Whitley

Join us for a fascinating conversation with choreographer Alexander Whitley about how movement shapes consciousness and how technology transforms our perception of the world and of ourselves.In this episode, Alexander shares his vision of the body as a site of knowing and self-making. He calls it “auto-fabrication”, meaning we are continually creating ourselves through moving, sensing, perceiving, a process, he asserts, where there is creativity. As Artistic Director of the Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Alexander places live bodies in dialogue with digital systems, staging the tension between our physical, embodied existence and the disembodied way of experiencing the world that modern technologies introduce. He explores how our experience becomes fractured, distributed spatially and temporally, and how social media creates what he calls “jittery, schizoid intervals,” a constant interruption that breaks the flow of attention into fragmented, arrhythmic patterns. In this episode, he walks us through his productions: Antibody, on the transhumanist desire to transcend the body; Overflow, on the emotional impact of social media; Future Rites, a VR reimagining of The Rite of Spring; and his new work Mirror, inspired by Shannon Vallor’s The AI Mirror, which asks how much we absorb from what technology reflects back to us. Alex invites us to question the narratives that frame technology as either savior or destroyer, setting us into the grey area, where the real inquiry is. Be prepared to sit with a striking profound reflection: What becomes of the sensitive attunement between humans when screens mediate our bonds? Alexander reminds us that the mind is embodied, shaped by movement, rhythm, and connection. And that dance may be one of our most powerful tools for sensing what it means to be human. *About Alexander Whitley: Award-winning choreographer and Artistic Director of the Alexander Whitley Dance Company. Trained at the Royal Ballet School; former dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Rambert, and Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance. Recognised at the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards and Sky Arts South Bank Award. He has lectured at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. LINKS & INFO https://www.alexanderwhitley.com Instagram: @whitleydanceco MUSIC COPYRIGHTS AND CREDITS Music from the score created for Alexander Whitley’s production Overflow by Rival Consoles LINK TO ALBUM,. Written, Performed and Produced by Rival Consoles. Published by Erased Tapes Music. © 2021 Erased Tapes Records Ltd. Tracks from the Overflow Album you heard in this interview courtesy of Erased Tapes Records originally commissioned for Alexander Whitley’s Overflow production: Flow State, Pulses of Information, Monster, Overflow, Tension in the Cloud, Making Sense Of It All These Tracks were written, Performed and Produced by Rival Consoles. Published by Erased Tapes Music. © 2021 Erased Tapes Records Ltd. To listen to this album please use THIS LINK, which will allow you to access the whole album to buy or stream via their preferred DSP. https://www.rivalconsoles.net/overflow

Mind is Matter: Function and Emotion with Paul Thagard

In this episode of See See by Ceci, Paul Thagard, one of the most influential thinkers at the crossroads of philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence, takes us on a journey through the architecture of thought, emotion, and coherence that defines the human mind. A distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the Killam and Molson Prizes, and author of eighteen books, Thagard has spent decades asking the hardest questions about intelligence: what it is, where it comes from, and whether machines will ever truly share it with us. His pioneering theory of explanatory coherence reimagines the brain not as a logic machine but as a coherence engine, a system that makes sense of the world by satisfying countless constraints simultaneously, weaving perception, reasoning, and emotion into a single fabric. In this wide-ranging conversation, Thagard reflects on the difference between intelligence and consciousness; on the devastating role of social media in the spread of misinformation; on the power of analogy as a tool of creativity, from Darwin's theory of natural selection to the everyday act of reading a stranger's gesture. And on why computers, despite their cognitive capacities, remain fundamentally psychopathic. "They are highly intelligent," he says, "but they lack empathy and are therefore incapable of caring." That incapacity sits at the heart of the episode's most urgent theme: the alarming rise of human-AI relationships, and what we risk losing when we mistake imitation for intimacy. Drawing on his recent book Dreams, Jokes, and Songs: How Brains Build Consciousness and the forthcoming AI Boom or Doom?, Thagard offers a remarkably clear-eyed view of minds both human and artificial, one that is at once scientifically rigorous and deeply humane. This is an episode about the mind as a coherence engine: hot and cold, rational and emotional, individual and social. About how neurons firing together can produce something as extraordinary as humor, as mysterious as dreams, and as dangerous as political delusion. And about the light, and the peril, that lies ahead as human and artificial intelligence continue to converge. Links & Info Paul Thagard, pthagard@uwaterloo.ca Web: https://paulthagard.com Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hot-thought Academic webpage: https://uwaterloo.ca/complexity-innovation/profiles/paul-thagard Books: https://paulthagard.com/books/ Others: Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, by Paul Thagard, MIT Press, 1006. E.14.50 ( x + 213 pages) ISBN 0 262 20106 2 Oxford University Press has published Dreams, Jokes, and Songs: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dreams-jokes-and-songs-9780198962359 In this episode you heard as background for the Marina Viotti’s excerpt: Music: Antonio Vivaldi, “Armatae face et anguibus” from Juditha Triumphans (RV 644). Marina Viotti, mezzo-soprano; Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal; Andrés Gabetta, conductor. From the album Prime Donne (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2026). Most useful links for Thagard's ECHO model: The original 1989 paper — free PDF: https://gwern.net/doc/philosophy/epistemology/1989-thagard.pdf Cambridge Core — the original published article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/explanatory-coherence/E05CB61CD64C26138E794BC601CC9D7A PhilPapers — with commentary and citations: https://philpapers.org/rec/THAECP The original 1989 PDF — the paper itself almost certainly contains a network diagram showing the ECHO constraint satisfaction model with excitatory and inhibitory links between nodes. Check directly here: https://gwern.net/doc/philosophy/epistemology/1989-thagard.pdf Thagard's own Computational Epistemology Lab — his University of Waterloo lab page has software downloads and may have visual documentation: http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/ His book Conceptual Revolutions (1992, Princeton UP) — this is where the most detailed ECHO diagrams appear, including the star/wheel diagrams showing proposition networks. It may be accessible via Google Books with partial preview.

Timeless Mind Space with Domingo Milella

What happens when a photographer trades the vast clarity of Mediterranean ruins for the darkness of a prehistoric cave? In this episode of See See by Ceci, visionary Italian artist Domingo Milella takes us on a journey that spans forty thousand years and the full depth of the human spirit. Milella first made his name with luminous large-format photographs of ancient landscapes, the coast of Puglia, the ruins of Petra, the pyramids of Egypt, images of extraordinary stillness that invited the viewer to slow down and breathe. Yet beneath the surface of that early success, a quiet crisis was gathering. In the summer of 2014, at the age of thirty-three, his carefully constructed world collapsed. He retreated to a forgotten village on the Ionian Sea, carrying only two things: his large-format camera and a copy of Moby Dick. Both remained untouched, the camera locked in a cupboard, the book unopened on the nightstand. What followed was a passage through despair and into transformation. Through therapy and the slow archaeology of the self, Milella found his way to the prehistoric caves. There, in total darkness, surrounded by ochre symbols and handprints inscribed tens of thousands of years ago, something shifted. The camera obscura he carried into those narrow tunnels became a mirror of the cave itself: both dark chambers in which images are born from minerals, water and light. In this rich and deeply personal conversation, Milella reflects on darkness as a space of safety and revelation rather than fear; on the intimate connection between memory, the body and the imagination; on the silent pressure of the digital age and its relentless flood of images; and on the nameless, collective authorship that links a teenager’s graffiti in a city alleyway to a Paleolithic painter working by torchlight four hours from the sun. What emerges is a meditation on time that refuses to move in one direction, where a feverish child navigating the folds of a bedsheet, an artist kneeling with a mammoth-format camera in a narrow tunnel, and an unknown hand pressing ochre against stone forty thousand years ago are all part of the same gesture. This is an episode about caves: geological, photographic and interior. About the courage it takes to descend into one’s own depths. And about the treasure that waits there: not answers, but the oldest and most enduring questions of what it means to be human. LINKS & INFO: https://www.camillagrimaldi.com/domingo-milella BOOK: https://steidl.de/Books/Domingo-Milella-0914182541.html WORK: https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/unearthing-civilisations-secrets-in-venice ROME: https://www.camillagrimaldi.com/ E- MAIL: domingomilella@me.com

Embodied Cognition: The Music Within with Vijay Iyer

Let yourself be drawn into the world of one of the most prolific, shape- shifting presences in 21st century music. Vijay Iyer is a Grammy-nominated composer, pianist, bandleader, and the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University. He is a MacArthur Fellow, described by The New York Times as “a social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway.” In a profound conversation, Vijay Iyer takes us on a journey of discovery, into what embodied cognition truly means and where music begins. He invites us to explore the extraordinary phenomenon of synchrony: how musicians lock into pulse together, and how an entire audience can exhale as one at the close of a performance. Iyer speaks of live music as a form of ritual, a collective agreement to step out of everyday life and into something else, together. He also reflects with great warmth on his collaborations with artists such as the drummer Tyshawn Sorey and the legendary trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, describing the deep listening, humility, and compassion that make their music possible. He opens our eyes to think deeply about jazz, “not as style of music but an act of freedom.” Music, he insists, should truly be listened to as a human action, asking ourselves who made it, where they were, and how they found each other. This episode is a powerful and loving reminder that music is, first and foremost, a live, shared, visceral, mutually embodied experience, and that within it lies the recognition of a deep longing we carry always: to come back to the experience of that timeless space where two souls meet in the act of listening. LINKS & INFO: https://vijay-iyer.com Instagram: @vijayiyer Latest releases: Sanctuary/Thereupon/DefiantLife/Compassion/Trouble/Love in Exile In this episode you heard Vijay Iyer’s music from his albums “Compassion”, “Defiant Life” and briefly “Thereupon” WHERE CAN I GET VIJAY IYER'S MUSIC? https://linktr.ee/vijayiyer https://vijayiyer.bandcamp.com/ https://ecmrecords.com/artists/vijay-iyer/ https://www.schott-music.com/en/person/vijay-iyer#person_worklist MUSIC COPYRIGHTS AND CREDITS Album: “Compassion” by Vijay Iyer Trio: Vijay Iyer, Linda May-Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey (ECM Records, 2024) © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. https://ecm.lnk.to/Compassion Tracks from the Album Compassion© featured in this episode: Overjoyed by Vijay Iyer Trio: Vijay Iyer, Linda May-Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey (ECM Records, 2024). © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. It Goes; by Vijay Iyer Trio: Vijay Iyer, Linda May-Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey (ECM Records, 2024). © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. Ghostrumental; by Vijay Iyer Trio: Vijay Iyer, Linda May-Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey (ECM Records, 2024). © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. Free Spirits/Drummers Song by Vijay Iyer Trio: Vijay Iyer, Linda May-Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey (ECM Records, 2024). © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. Album: “Defiant Life” by Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith (ECM Records, 2025) © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. https://ecm.lnk.to/DefiantLife Tracks from the album “Defiant Life”© featured in this episode: Sumud by Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith (ECM Records, 2025) © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. Floating River Requiem (for Patrice Lumumba) by Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith (ECM Records, 2025) © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. Procession: Defiant Life by Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith (ECM Records, 2025) © ECM Records GmbH, Under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music. Embracing Difference from the Album “Thereupon” by Fieldwork: Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer & Tyshawn Sorey. (PI Recordings, 2025). © Pi Recordings https://pirecordings.lnk.to/propaganda https://fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com/album/thereupon HARVARD UNIVERSITY Faculty to Art and Science Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts Professor of African and African American Studies Director of Graduate Studies (Fall 2025) Graduate Advisor in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry https://music.fas.harvard.edu/people/vijay-iyer Article mentioned in our conversation: Embodied Mind, Situated Cognition, and Expressive Microtiming in African-American Music Author(s): Vijay Iyer Source: Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Spring 2002), pp. 387-414 Published by: University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2002.19.3.387 Accessed: 30-03-2017 21:59 UTC Link:https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/2002_Embodied-mind-situated-cognition-and-expressive-micro-timing-in-african-american-music.pdf

The First Leap to Consciousness with Paul Bahn & Elle Clifford

In this episode of See See by Ceci, we journey hundreds of thousands of years into the past, to the flickering firelight and painted depths of Ice Age caves. What did it mean to live embedded in the landscape, wearing it “like a big cape”? How did the mastery of fire reshape not only our bodies but our minds? And what can we learn from the haunting images left deep within caves—some meant to be seen, others engraved in darkness, never intended for any eye but the spirit world? From the earliest trace of aesthetic awareness, a pebble that looked like a face, carried home, to dots, stencils, animals, geometric forms and so much more, we explore how symbolic culture emerged not from necessity but from play, imagination, and the suspension of ordinary reality. We consider how caves themselves became spaces of meditation and transformation, how music and birdsong may have shaped early consciousness, and what these first leaps into abstraction reveal about the origins of art, religion, and the human mind itself. In conversation with Paul Bahn one of the world’s leading authorities on prehistoric rock art, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and author of over one hundred publications including the award-winning Images of the Ice Age, and Elle Clifford, psychologist and researcher specializing in Ice Age life whose work on cave art and mythological worlds illuminates the social and psychological dimensions of our earliest ancestors. Co-hosted by acclaimed Italian landscape photographer Domingo Milella, this episode invites us to stand face to face with those who came before, and to see ourselves reflected in the first marks they left behind. Everyday Life: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803272580 Living in the Ice Age: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803276670 Making Art in the Ice Age: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830887 Cave Art: A Guide to the Ice Age Decorated Caves of Europe: https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803277639 Images of the Ice Age: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/images-of-the-ice-age-9780199686001?cc=gb&lang=en& Andante Travels: https://www.andantetravels.co.uk/guides/dr-paul-bahn Martin Randall Travel: https://www.martinrandall.com/about/expert-speakers/dr-paul-bahn Archaeological Institute of America tours: https://www.archaeological.org/tour_leader/paul-g-bahn/ In this episode you heard as background music for Vijay Iyer’s excerpt: Prelude: Orion from Compassion (Vijay Iyer Trio)- Vijay Iyer, piano; Linda May Han Oh, double bass, Tyshawn Sorey, drums.

Trailer Season 4 (Mind)

What is the mind? Where does it begin, and where does it end?Season IV of See See by Ceci takes you on a 16-episode journey through the mysteries of consciousness: from the first spark of awareness in prehistoric caves to the frontiers of AI and the future of human identity.Featuring Harvard neuroscientist Rudolph Tanzi on Alzheimer’s and the self, psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist on the divided brain, Pulitzer finalist Andrew Solomon on the shadows of the mind, global mental health pioneer Vikram Patel, and trauma specialist Richard Mollica on invisible wounds and healing. We explore intelligence beyond the human: Toby Kiers reveals the hidden networks of fungal intelligence, Carl Safina takes us into the beautiful wild minds of animals. Jazz visionary Vijay Iyer shows us the music within embodied cognition, while four-time Grammy winning drummer, producer and conceptualist Terri Lyne Carrington explores rhythm as the mind’s ancestral gatekeeper. Philosopher Katherine Hayles traces the posthuman mind from bacteria to AI, Stephen Cave examines intelligence and immortality, and neurosurgeon Eben Alexander shares what lies beyond, when the mind becomes unbound. From choreographer Alexander Whitley on digital bodies to photographer Domingo Milella on caves as timeless mind spaces, and archaeologists Paul Bahn and Elle Clifford on humanity’s first leap to consciousness. At a moment when technology is reshaping who we are, when mental health has become a global reckoning, and when the boundaries between human and artificial intelligence blur, we ask: what awaits our species? And what kind of mind will carry us forward?

Beyond Matter: Science, Awareness and Real Magic with Dean Radin

In this final episode of our third season GUTS, we dive deep into the mysterious world of parapsychology with one of the field’s foremost experts, Dean Radin, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Known for his pioneering work on real magic and mind-matter interactions, Dr. Radin explains what real magic truly is and why psi phenomena—like telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition—continue to occur in our everyday lives, yet remain taboo subjects in modern science. He shares how his fascination with these phenomena developed and how he’s approached them through rigorous scientific study. Also in this episode, Dr. Dean brilliantly explains the idea of a multi-dimensional reality within the framework of quantum mechanics, shedding light on how parapsychological phenomena fit into a new understanding of the universe. Dr. Radin also gives us an inside look into the StarGate Program—a classified program by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency that took place during and after the Cold War- while letting us glance an eye into the exploration of real psychic abilities and the delving into the issue of whether psi skills are inherited or can be cultivated through training. During a fascinating conversation, Dr. Radin also discusses his lab’s groundbreaking experiments, like the intriguing gut feelings experiment dubbed “Telly-Belly”, or those exploring psi genetic characteristics, including those performed through CRISPR and RNA technology for gene editing. Join us in this fantastic closing episode in a mind-expanding conversation with Dean Radin through which he helps us uncover the science behind the seemingly impossible and challenge our understanding of reality and ourselves. *Dr Dean Radin is a leading expert in the field of parapsychology. His research has included studies of individual and collective mind-matter interactions, precognition, clairvoyance, distant healing, and telepathy. He served five times as President of the Parapsychological Association, an elected affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and was co-editor-in-chief for the Elsevier journal Explore, from 2009 to 2022. https://www.deanradin.com https://noetic.org/profile/dean-radin/ https://thevisioneers.ca/visionary-leaders-2/leaders/dr-dean-radin https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/2925230.Dean_Radin Instagram @IONS Facebook: Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) X: @IONSonline @DeanRadin

Music Played from the Core with Andrei Ioniță

In this episode, we have an in-depth conversation with Andrei Ioniță, the prodigious Romanian cellist and winner of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. We explore the emotional profundities and rich spectrum of colors that the cello can evoke, and how it reflects the subtleties of human emotion. Andrei shares his thoughts on playing Bach, discussing the personal connection he has with his instrument and his journey as a musician. He also reflects on the nuances of gut strings, the importance of good posture for a cellist, the physical sensation of the cello resting against his body, and how this intimate embrace influences emotional expression and depth of sound, particularly in the intense, low register passages. In this episode dedicated to music, Andrei also discusses his Romanian heritage and how the voice of Romania speaks through his bow, offering a personal insight into his cultural identity. In this episode, he takes us inside his experience during the 15th Tchaikovsky Competition and talks about his most difficult decisions as a musician. Most powerfully, Andrei opens up about how he conveys his whole soul through his music, sharing the courage it takes to be vulnerable and break through at the highest emotional peaks, only to let go and invite the listener into a shared human experience through his playing. This episode is a real treat for the ears and the heart! Andrei Ioniță's carrier it's a journey of emotional reflection and artistic courage – You’ll understand what it is meant to “play from the gut”. Website: https://www.andreiionitacellist.com https://www.haefligerproduction.com/andrei-ionita https://www.symphonikerhamburg.de/laeiszhalle-orchester-symphoniker-hamburg/andrei-ionita-135 Instagram: ionita_andrei94 Facebook: Andrei Ioniță - Cellist This episode’s Playlist and Playlist’s credits: · Papandopulo, Boris. Rhapsodia Concertante: I. Introduzione Tempo Libero. Performed by Oliver Triendl and Andrei Ioniță. On Boris Papandopulo: Works for Piano & Strings, CPO-555106-2, 2021.CD · Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich. Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (var. VII e Coda : Allegro vivo). Performed by Cellist Andrei Ioniță and the Münchener Philharmoniker conducted by Valery Gergiev recorded at the Philharmonie im Gasteig (Munich, Germany), on May 12, 2017 20:00 © A Coproduction by Munich Philharmonic Orchestra & Telmondis // In Association with medici.tv & Takt1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dyn2LRxVo · Brett, Dean. 11 Oblique Strategies No. 1. Listen to the Quiet Voice. Performed by Andrei Ioniță. On Oblique Strategies. Orchid Classics ORC100096, 2019. CD. · Brett, Dean. 11 Oblique Strategies No. 5. What are the Sections Sections of? Performed by Andrei Ioniță. On Oblique Strategies. Orchid Classics ORC100096, 2019. CD. · Brahms, Johannes. Cello Suite No. 1 G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prelude. Performed byAndrei Ioniță. On Oblique Strategies. Orchid Classics ORC100096, 2019. CD. · Brahms, Johannes. Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major BWV 1007: III. Courante. Performed by Andrei Ioniță. On Oblique Strategies. Orchid Classics ORC100096, 2019. CD. · Brahms, Johannes. Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114: I. Allegro. Performed by Pablo Barragán, Andrei Ioniță, and Juan Pérez Floristán. On Brahms: Complete Clarinet Sonatas & Trio. IBS Classical, 2018. CD. · Papandopulo, Boris. Concertino in modo antico, OP.56 II Aria. Performed by Oliver Triendl, Amaury Coeytaux, Vanessa Szgeti, and Andrei Ioniță. On Boris Papandopulo:Works for Piano & Strings, CPO-555106-2, 2021.CD · Dmitri, Shostakovich. Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor, Op.40. The XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. Performed by Andrei Ioniţă: Cellist and Seong-Jin Cho: Pianist. Concert recorded at the Salle des Combins (Verbier, Switzerland), on July 25, 2018. © Idéale Audience with the participation of medici.tv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPd1dN89bM · Dmitri, Shostakovich. Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 4. Allegro con moto. Performed by Andrei Ionuț Ioniță with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. The XV International Tchaikovsky Competition's Winners' Concert. Recorded at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, on July 2, 2015. © MUSEEC/medici.tv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzaCNTlJciI · Dmitri Shostakovich. Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 with the Draft. Performed by Andrei Ionuț Ioniță Orchestra of the Shostakovich State Academic Saint Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Nikolai Alexeev. Cello: Final Round - Candidate #2 - First Prize - Recorded at the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, on June 28, 2015, 7:45 p.m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfkQt0gSiJI · Henryson, Svante. Black Run. Performed by Andrei Ioniță. On Oblique Strategies. Orchid Classics ORC100096, 2019. CD. · Enescu, George: Piano Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 16: II Andante mesto. Performed by Catalin Serban, Andrei Ioniță, Karolina Errera, Suyeon Kang. On Mélodies Infinies: Fauré & Enescu Piano Quartets. Naxos 8.551477, 2024. CD · Papandopulo, Boris. Rapsodia Concertante: I. Introduziene. Tempo libero. Performed by Oliver Triendl, Amaury Coeytaux, Vanessa Szgeti, and Andrei Ioniță. On Boris Papandopulo: Works for Piano & Strings, CPO-555106-2, 2021.CD · Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Sonata -Moll OP 19. Lento- Allegro moderato. 2. Allegro scherzando. 3 Andante. 4 Allegro mosso. Performed by Andrei Ioniță and Andrei Ioniță (Violoncello), Catalin Serban (Piano). Kammermusik am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit Konzertleben e.V. January 17th, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqpFqwfoBDg · Saint-Saëns, Camille. Concerto No.1 in A minor for Cello and Orchestra Op. 33. Performed by Solist Andrei Ioniță and the Filarmonica George Enescu conducted by Stefan Ausbury Opening Concert October 7th, 2020, at the Romanian Athenaeum lived-streamed on the Institutions Website and YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTHMbFcyp4 · Papandopulo, Boris. Rapsodia Concertante: I. Introduziene. Tempo libero. Performed by Oliver Triendl, Amaury Coeytaux, Vanessa Szgeti, and Andrei Ioniță. On Boris Papandopulo: Works for Piano & Strings, CPO-555106-2, 2021.CD · Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Sonata -Moll OP 19. Lento- Allegro moderato. 2. Allegro scherzando. 3 Andante. 4 Allegro mosso. Performed by Andrei Ioniță and Andrei Ioniță (Violoncello), Catalin Serban (Piano). Kammermusik am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit Konzertleben e.V. January 17th, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqpFqwfoBDg · Fauré, Gabriel: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15: III Adagio. Performed by Catalin Serban, Andrei Ioniță, Karolina Errera, Suyeon Kang. On Mélodies Infinies: Fauré & Enescu Piano Quartets. Naxos 8.551477, 2024. CD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTHMbFcyp4 · Saint-Saëns, Camille. Concerto No.1 in A minor for Cello and Orchestra Op. 33. Performed by Solist Andrei Ioniță and the Filarmonica George Enescu conducted by Stefan Ausbury Opening Concert October 7th, 2020, at the Romanian Athenaeum lived-streamed on the Institutions Website and YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTHMbFcyp4 · Brahms, Johannes. Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114: I. Allegro. Performed by Pablo Barragán, Andrei Ioniță, and Juan Pérez Floristán. On Brahms: Complete Clarinet Sonatas & Trio. IBS Classical, 2018. CD. · Papandopulo, Boris. Rhapsodia Concertante: III. Danza. Allegro. Performed by Oliver Triendl and Andrei Ioniță. On Boris Papandopulo: Works for Piano & Strings, CPO-555106-2, 2021.CD Albums: Available in all Platforms https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/3Cqhwf6m3Gl8i0HfDTzln1 https://www.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=C5463 https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/4ITCrIEQbzQVUO8CPHhdLP

Sweet Revolution with René Frank

Join us for a cool, bold and inspiring episode for food lovers, where fine dining meets fearless creativity. Our guest, Chef René Frank, takes us back to the heart of his childhood kitchen, where aromas, flavors and memories first ignited his passion for food. Amid the clatter of pots and the warmth of home-cooked meals, his journey is one that would take courage, vision, and relentless curiosity to transform him into one of the world's most groundbreaking pastry chefs. Named Pastry Chef of the Year four times by Gault & Millau and Rolling Pin, René shares the moments that shaped him and his kitchen at CODA, his two Michelin-starred restaurant in Berlin, a cutting-edge food laboratory where indulgence is redefined, and dessert takes center stage. CODA is not just a place to cook and eat, but a place to nourish, where the World's Best Pastry Chef of 2022 creates dishes that defy convention. In a city known for its freedom, creativity, and rule-breaking spirit, René is rewriting the language of desserts, eliminating refined sugar, butter, and flour to create something entirely new. This episode is about more than food-it's about having the courage to challenge convention, believing in wild ideas, and following through even when the world might call those ideas crazy! https://www.rene-frank.de Instagram: @rene.frank.coda Facebook: René Frank CODA Restaurant: https://coda-berlin.com Instagram: @codaberlin Facebook: CODA Dessert Dining The Chocolate Masterclass of René Frank *This episode is cohosted by European interior designer Petra van Veelen She is owner and CEO at Demucho a Dutch Interior Design Firm. She holds a Master of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Technical University Delft, The Netherlands. Her thesis about the development of a social housing system got marked with honors. She has 20 years of experience in real estate development an interior design with a special interest on sustainable and circular economy. She has also joined the theater as a performing actress in Amsterdam and continued to sing and perform with a choir in Berlin

Food Politics & Social Justice with Marion Nestle

Why is the fight for better food, at its heart, a fight for social justice? This episode will challenge the way you think about food, from what's on your plate to the powerful forces behind it. Before you take your next bite, listen to this eye-opening conversation with one of the world's most influential voices on food and health policy, Marion Nestle, renowned nutritionist, scientist, activist and award-winning author. Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor Emerita of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University and a visiting professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. Her groundbreaking work has changed public health policy worldwide and opened our eyes to how food industry marketing uses manipulative and subtle tactics to influence our dietary choices long before we ever set foot in a supermarket. It also exposes the dangers of ultra-processed foods and the major public health problems they cause, such as obesity and diabetes - diseases fuelled not just by what we eat, but how much we eat. In this episode, the bestselling author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health" and "What to Eat", shares her personal journey into food policy advocacy and the social justice victories she has fought for, leading to public awareness and healthier food systems through public policy not only in the US but around the globe. *Marion Nestle is also author of other bestsellers such as Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003); Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) (2015); and her latest book Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (October 2022) Blog: https://www.foodpolitics.com Instagram: Marion Nestle (@marionnestle) https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/marion-nestle @marionnestle

Into the Guts of Criminal Behavior with David Canter

Have you ever pondered the potential of psychology to facilitate the apprehension of serial killers and rapists? Or the manner in which behavioral patterns exhibited by criminals can serve as crucial evidence that leads investigators to the perpetrator's doorstep? In today's episode, we are delighted to have the privilege of hosting Professor David Canter, a globally renowned applied social psychologist and the pioneering figure behind the field of investigative psychology. This episode promises a deep dive into the mind of a criminal, the psychology behind some of the world's most notorious cases. So, grab a pen, your notebook and follow Professor David Canter through the dark alleys of the minds of serial offenders as he sheds light on how their behavior is mapped and tracked. We'll go back in time to the streets of London as we examine famous cases such as Jack the Ripper, and travel back to the 1980s to learn about Operation Hart, the Metropolitan Police's investigation into the infamous 'Railway Rapist', which Professor Canter played a key role in solving. We will delve into the heart of criminal behavior as we learn about Quantico and the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, and the truth about criminal profiling. We'll also talk about his revolutionary development of geographical profiling, the study of criminal behavior patterns across locations, the importance of information classification and investigative methods that lead to an arrest, and how these pieces of the puzzle led to the creation of his software, DRAGNETK. But that's not all - Prof Canter will also share his thoughts on why the United States has such a high incidence of brutal shootings and serial killings compared to other nations, and what happens when crime goes unpunished. A pioneer and creator of investigative psychology, Professor Canter is Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool and a visiting professor at Liverpool Hope University and Bucks New University. He's also the man responsible for introducing environmental psychology to the UK and Europe in the 1960s, studying how spaces such as offices, schools and hospitals affect our behavior. Professor Canter recently completed a PhD in Music composition. https://www.davidcanter.com X (Twitter): @ProfDavidCanter Blogs: http://tinyurl.com/ybkp6kky Prof. David Canter’s latest book Criminal Psychology in Action: A project-based approach is available to order: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overview-criminal-psychology-through-projects-ready-carry-canter-dglae Examples of Professor Canter’s musical compositions are available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTkxt_0qEDE

Criminal Appetite: The Dark Side of Poor Nutrition with Stephen J. Schoenthaler

Have you ever wondered if there’s a link between what we eat and how we behave? Could the food we consume influence mental health issues—or even contribute to criminal behavior? Today, we’re exploring these questions with a true pioneer in this field—Stephen Schoenthaler, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Criminal Justice at California State University, Stanislaus. With over 50 years of groundbreaking research, Schoenthaler has been at the forefront of discovering how our diet impacts not only our mental health but also behaviors associated with criminality and aggression. In this episode, we’ll hear about his extraordinary experiences teaching at Attica Correctional Facility, where his interactions with inmates made a huge impact on his life at a professional and personal level. You will also discover how diet affects social behavior, how food insecurity plays a role in juvenile delinquency, and why junk food and sugar can lead to behavioral disturbances. Professor Schoenthaler will also shed light on how nutrition influences cognitive skills, anxiety, and antisocial behaviors in children and young adults. We’ll talk about the essential benefits of avoiding ultra-processed foods and examine the holistic role nutrition plays in children’s and young adults’ overall well-being, including mental health. Get ready for a compelling conversation that will challenge the way you think about food, behavior, and the deeper factors shaping the world’s criminal justice system —and how conscious nourishment can help us create a more empathetic and connected world. https://www.csustan.edu/people/dr-stephen-schoenthaler https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Schoenthaler https://novainstituteforhealth.org/nutrition-behavior-and-the-criminal-justice-system-what-took-so-long-an-interview-with-dr-stephen-j-schoenthaler/ Articles: Schoenthaler SJ, Prescott SL, Logan AC. Homicide or Happiness: Did Folate Fortification and Public Health Campaigns Influence Homicide Rates and the Great American Crime Decline? Nutrients. 2024 Apr 6;16(7):1075. doi: 10.3390/nu16071075. PMID: 38613108; PMCID: PMC11013728. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38613108/ Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025. https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2020-12/DietaryGuidelinesforAmericans2020-2025.pdf

From the Gut: Love, Food and Redemption with Eric Vildgaard

Three-Michelin-starred Danish chef Eric Vildgaard is a remarkable character whose journey from a life of crime to culinary greatness is an inspiring story of true courage. Once trapped in a world of poverty and gang violence, Eric found himself lost in a turbulent, dark alley of drugs and chaos. But in the depths of his struggles, he discovered cooking as a refuge - a safe haven where he could channel his emotions and creativity. Yet it was not this realization that set him on a transformative path to redemption, but love, the simplest and, he says, the best decision he ever made. In this episode, we invite you into the kitchen of the world's third-best chef, ranked by The Best Chef Awards (2024), as he lights the fire and talks about using his senses, instinct and the sound of burning pans, the true meaning of cooking, his holistic approach and the many ways his relentless drive and passion for cooking have rewarded him in life. Listen as he shares his insights on letting the ingredients shine while keeping his ego in check, and how he has turned his kitchen into a school of life, a place that fosters joy and connection, where he mentors younger generations and helps them find their way. A man of true courage, Chef Vildgaard has chosen not to deny his past, as it has helped him to gain a healthy self-awareness and a better understanding of who he is, while keeping his feet on the ground: a conviction embodied in the Danish word Jordnær, the name of his three Michelin star restaurant. Eric is a titan and living proof that it takes guts, love and fire to create and turn your life around and be able to transform yourself and those around you. Jordnær – https://restaurantjordnaer.dk Selected Articles MIchelin Guide - Jordnær: An Inspector’s View on Denmark’s New Three Michelin Star Restaurant https://guide.michelin.com/is/en/article/dining-out/jordnaer-an-inspector-s-view-on-denmark-s-new-three-michelin-star-restaurant The World’s 50 Best – Jordnær https://www.theworlds50best.com/the-list/31-40/jordnaer.html Forbes - My Best Meal Of The Year Is Where You Need To Eat In 2024: Jordnær https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammorganstern/2023/12/29/my-best-meal-of-the-year-is-where-you-need-to-eat-in-2024-jordnr/