The Observable Unknown

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The Observable Unknown is a scientific and psychological podcast exploring consciousness, perception, behavior, identity, altered states, symbolism, neuroscience, and the hidden structures shaping human life. Through disciplined analysis rather than...

Episodes

The Written Unknown IV: The Secret Scaffolding of Story | Narrative Architecture, Story Structure, Character, Plot, Writing, and Why Stories Matter

Mailbag XXXIX: When Everything Starts Looking Like a Conspiracy | Misinformation, UAPs, COVID, Neuralink, Human Trafficking, and Critical Thinking

Interlude LXXXVI: Becoming | Martin Buber, Charles Taylor, Identity, Belonging, Meaning, and the Relational Self

The Written Unknown III: Temporal Architecture™ | Burnout, Human Rhythm, Recovery Debt, Decision-Making, Leadership, and Adaptive Performance

Mailbag XXXVIII: When the Job You Need Starts Slipping Away | Workplace Performance, Difficult Bosses, Professional Reputation, and Job Anxiety

Interlude LXXXV: Legacy | Erik Erikson, Robert Kegan, Generativity, Adult Development, and What Remains After We’re Gone

The Written Unknown II: The Architecture of Command | Magic, Consciousness, Ritual, Self-Regulation, and Human Becoming

Mailbag XXXVII: When the World Feels Like It’s Ending | Doomscrolling, Anxiety, Information Overload, Insomnia, and Temporal Collapse

Interlude LXXXIV: Transmission | Joseph Henrich, Peter Richerson, Cultural Evolution, and How Civilizations Survive

THE WRITTEN UNKNOWN I: Between Voice and Presence | Why We Hear the Dead, Sense the Unseen, and Search for Meaning Beyond the Brain

Mailbag Installment XXXVI : Does Evolution Have a Syntax? | Genetic Grammar, Symbiosis, Microbial Communication, and the Conjugation of Life

Interlude LXXXIII: Obligation | Marcel Mauss, Alasdair MacIntyre, Inherited Debt, Family Loyalty, and the Responsibilities We Never Chose

Interlude LXXXII: Memory | Endel Tulving, Frederic Bartlett, Collective Remembrance, and the Reconstruction of Identity

Mailbag Installment XXXV: When Nobody Knows You’re Still Here | Loneliness, Social Isolation, Suicidal Thoughts, Friendship, and the Need to Be Found

Interlude LXXXI: Apprenticeship | Michael Polanyi, Hubert Dreyfus, Tacit Knowledge, and How Skill Passes Between Generations

Professional Spotlight Series | Business Discovery Interviews on The Observable Unknown

Interlude LXXX: Imitation | How Borrowed Desire, Mimetic Theory, and Story Shape Identity

Mailbag XXXIV: When Every Conversation Becomes a Trial | Difficult Mothers, Eric Berne, Games People Play, Transactional Analysis, Family Conflict, Boundaries, Widowhood, and The Cost of the Move

Interlude LXXIX: Belonging | John Bowlby, Naomi Eisenberger, Attachment Theory, Social Rejection, Loneliness, Neuroscience, and the Biology of Inclusion

Dr. Judith A. Swack