Dr. Alex Curmi

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2,747 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

Dr. Alex Curmi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Thinking Mind: Mental Health & Personal Growth · E183 | Finding Your Life's Meaning (w/ Dr. Joel Vos) · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

society and institutions, I suppose we could say let's have those institutions that help people, support people to discover what's right for them, rather than institutions which impose uh a value structure, you know, this is what you should care about in a more dogmatic way. voice-verified

And I suppose it's particularly insidious because since voice-verified

the idea of meaning is so under discussed, people often are quite unconscious of it. voice-verified

They they don't really know what they're looking for as meaning when they're doing a variety of things. voice-verified

So they don't know they're looking for meaning when they're watching the World Cup. voice-verified

They don't know they're looking for meaning when they're buying a new trendy pair of shoes. voice-verified

They don't know they're looking for meaning when they're watching the new Marvel movie that comes out. voice-verified

And so because they're not aware that that's what's happening, it makes it all the more easier to fall into a trap like that. voice-verified

Of course, these are kind of more trivial examples, but there are a lot more serious examples, I suppose, even like the polarization you mentioned. voice-verified

So falling into the trend of following a political a particular politician or political movement is a search for meaning of sorts, various things like that. voice-verified

Is that kind of case? voice-verified

Is that typical of the psychology of radicalization? voice-verified

Is it typically that sense of like like what do we know from the research about the psychology of radicalization more broadly? voice-verified

In fact, the feeling of meaning exists in your body. voice-verified

And and interestingly, something that's exposing this is the rise of AI as well, because so many people are now using AI voice-verified

to actually have maybe for some people their only meaningful relationship is with an AI and because AI is always available voice-verified

And relatively low cost. voice-verified

uh people can find themselves almost falling into a tunnel of AI. voice-verified

Last week we released an episode about AI induced delusions, which is which can happen when voice-verified

People use AI so much that they form these delusional beliefs. voice-verified

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