Sleepy Speculations

Epizodes

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  The Cartographers of the Inside 10.09.2026 1h 12min

  What if religion isn't a set of beliefs about the world but the mind watching itself — and what if two traditions that disagree about death, the soul, and God turn out to be doing the same quiet work underneath the wall between them?
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  The Context Maximiser — A Universe That Multiplies Relations 03.09.2026 52min

  What if the most fundamental thing in reality isn't matter, isn't information, isn't even consciousness — but context? The relation between things, considered as a primitive. And what if the universe is, by its nature, the kind of thing that always tries to make more of it?
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  The Loop That Closes 27.08.2026 1h 10min

  A thing that points at itself is the strangest structure there is — and one of them isn't out in the world at all; it's the thing doing the looking. A slow walk around the strange loop you are, to the one place you can never turn and face — and then out the other side, to a stranger thought: that the solid world out there and the inner world of thought and feeling may be two coastlines of one field. Both of them found. Only one of them you can point at.
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  When the Story Is Real — On the Ontology of Mythology 20.08.2026 1h 23min

  What if the old mythologies aren't just stories — and what if treating them as just stories is what's costing us something? A slow walk through one philosopher's case that the figures of religion are pointing at structures of consciousness as real as anything in physics.
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  The Future Causing the Past 12.08.2026 1h 1min

  Cause comes before effect — the match, then the flame. Except in the cleanest experiment we have, a choice made now lines up with how a particle behaved then. A slow, careful walk to the one disciplined crack in the arrow of time — and the wild, gently-held what-if it opens: a universe whose present quietly authors its own past, all the way back to the Big Bang.
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  What You Want to Want — Meta-Will and the Direction of the Good 06.08.2026 1h 4min

  Most of the time you do what you want. But sometimes you wish you wanted something else. The philosopher who first wrote about this thought it was the secret of being a person at all — and it raises a question we don't usually ask: where do those second-order wants come from?
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  The Museum of Impossible Things 30.07.2026 1h 21min

  A number that doesn't exist holds up the whole physical world. Is mind to physical reality what the imaginary numbers are to the real line? The dreams, the impossible shapes, and the places the very quiet people go — taken seriously as real. A slow night-walk up a staircase of stranger and stranger experiences.
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  The Gap Between Is and Isn't 23.07.2026 1h 20min

  What if the most fundamental thing in reality isn't something — and isn't nothing either — but the gap between them? An honest walk through the most stubborn question in philosophy.
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  An Invitation — Welcome to Sleepy Speculations 06.07.2026 12min

  Before the first idea, an invitation. What this is, how to listen, and why a philosophy podcast might be the thing that finally helps you sleep — a short doorway into the long, slow speculations to come.
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  Why You're Alive Right Now 06.07.2026 45min

  What if your life is following the most elegant mathematical path through time, the way a photon does?