Alan Levinovitz
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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It's not a broken limb.
It's also not you faking it.
So what is it?
They're like, what is it?
In all cultures of trying to figure out what could be this thing that is not your choice, that is not biological or physiological, and they come up with all kinds of kooky answers.
It's an angry deceased ancestor.
It's a demon.
And we're trying to do that today because the words for the intersection between mind and body, that dash or that hyphen,
That's a really mysterious place, but it exists.
It's a real place.
As you said, the mind is the brain.
Whenever I interview neurologists, they're always doing scare quotes the whole time.
They're like, well, blah, blah, blah.
I'm like, why are you doing the scare quotes?
They're like, well, you know, how do you even talk about any of this stuff?
100%.
Something sacred almost.
Something sacred.
Absolutely.
So one of my friends in history of technology calls this epistemic opacity, which I think is a really interesting phrase.
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