Aperture
Episodes
The 7 Levels of Reality
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reality doesn’t make any sense. And I don’t mean that as an exaggeration. We know more about the surface of distant planets dozens of light years ...
The AI Takeover Is Closer Than You Think
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI experts from all around the world believe that given its current rate of progress, by 2027, we may hit the most dangerous milestone in human histor...
Why Nihilism is Taking Over Modern Society
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When trying to understand nihilism holistically, we run into some problems. The first is that the concept is ambiguous. It can refer to a lack of beli...
The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment: Roko's Basilisk
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you knew you’d be subjected to eternal torture because you DIDN’T do something, you’d do it, right? What if that something was aiding in the ...
The Universe’s Biggest Secrets
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the universe is a simulation? Or perhaps the most advanced civilization is out there, waiting to be discovered? From the heat death of the cos...
Master Stoicism in 60 Minutes: The Philosophy That Will Change Your Life
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stoic philosophy has persisted throughout history because it offers a framework to deal with every human's obstacles. This is the entire history of St...
Every Lie You Believe In
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Each one of us experiences the world through our own unique lens, shaped by our past, beliefs, and personal encounters. What we perceive as truth is o...
Your Subconscious Mind is Ridiculously Powerful
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What drives you? How do you differentiate between needs and motives or motivations? When we are not aware of needs, we act based on our feelings, thou...
How to Become a Stoic in the Modern World
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re all pretty used to rain. We’re either prepared for it with an umbrella or raincoat or just get wet. Rarely does it genuinely upset us. But w...
Why You're Doomed to the 9-5 Trap
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“People simply empty out. They are bodies with fearful and obedient minds. The color leaves the eye. The voice becomes ugly. And the body. The hair....
Life's Biggest Questions
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are some of life's biggest questions? Let's discuss them and try to answer them together. Enjoy our first long podcast. Support: https:/...
Optimistic Nihilism: nothing matters, but it’s ok
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If nothing matters and we’re all just specks of dust floating through space and time, what’s the point in trying at all? Building healthy relation...
Signs You're in a Cult
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the manipulation tactics used by cult leaders, the pros and cons of cults, and how the internet has contributed to the rise of niche communiti...
Game Theory: Winning the Game of Life
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is Game Theory? You are faced with examples of Game Theory very often in your daily life. Could you improve your decision-making if you learned m...
How Stoicism Can Make You Rich
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The secret to financial freedom in today’s economic crisis isn’t found in some get-rich-quick scheme or through social media charlatans trying to ...
Shower Thoughts That Actually Make Sense
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you even had these thoughts in the shower? Do they weirdly make sense? Website: https://whatifshow.com/category/aperture/ YouTube: https://www.y...
How Crypto Scammed The World
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2008, a paper titled ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’ was published, announcing the creation of one of the world’s fi...
Shower Thoughts That Make Me Question Everything
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thoughts that keep me up at night. Website: https://aperture.gg/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience Instagram: https://www.instagram....
Algorithms are Destroying Society
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What has society become if we can leave the fate of a person’s life in the hands of an algorithm? When we take the recommendation of a machine as tr...
BlackRock: the Company That Controls* the World's Governments
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You wake up to the sound of the alarm on your iPhone. Annoyed that you couldn't get more sleep, you grudgingly unlock your phone to see what's...
Dating Apps Are More Dangerous Than You Think
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meeting people in real life is hard, maybe harder these days than ever before. When you meet someone in real life and want to ask them on a date, you’...
Marcus Aurelius and the Guiding Principles of Stoicism
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Aurelius was a philosopher before anything else. Regarded as the last of the Five Good Emperors of Ancient Rome, a term coined by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
How AI Is Saving Humanity
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make." This statement was made by mathematician Irving John Goo...
Shower thoughts that everyone asked for..
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My strange shower thoughts that I bet you had too... Stay connected with Aperture: Website: https://aperture.gg/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Ap...
The Entire History of Humanity in 10 Minutes
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From sharing the earth with many other human species merely as hunter gatherers trying to brave the elements, to building rockets, creating the intern...
How to Get Rich
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's what every person has asked themselves at least once before. How do I get rich? How can I make the most money possible? How to become a milli...
What If NASA Wasn't Broke?
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How much could NASA achieve if it had unlimited budgets? Could we have found aliens or exoplanets better for life than Earth? Could we have learned mo...
How Money Works
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does the word "money" affect you? Do you feel positive and ambitious or anxious and scared? Money controls our lives every day, so how d...
Absurdism: The Real Meaning of Life
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Life is meaningless, sure, and the only rational course of action is to behave as such. There is no plan, no objective truth, and everything happens p...
Your Favorite Youtuber Will Soon Be Replaced By AI
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know that the voice you are hearing right now is human? Most of you have no idea what I look like, so how can you tell I’m a real person?...
This Platform Might Be Worse Than TikTok
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve talked extensively about the dangers of TikTok. But what if I told you that Snapchat was way more dangerous? That while TikTok’s influence i...
How Big Is the Universe?
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and pondered about your very own existence? Maybe you were camping out with some friends, or all alone marvel...
The Scariest Thing About ChatGPT No One Is Talking About
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you had a personal search assistant who could not only track down answers in a fraction of a second but could break down complex topics, offer...
Overstimulation is Ruining Your Life
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Turns out that diving deep into our own thoughts is something that we don’t really like to do. We find it boring, and we’ll do anything to allevia...
The Gig Economy is Terrible: Here's Why
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everything can be done with an app these days, and companies are looking more and more like they want to offer “gig” as opposed to full-time emplo...
The Flow State: How to Supercharge Your Life
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Flow is a tool we can seek out to improve our lives. It is a mindset to help us boost productivity, conquer challenging tasks, and lean into our creat...
How to Buy Happiness With Money
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Evelyn Adams was the first person in American history to ever win multiple million-dollar prizes. Basically overnight, she went from working in a conv...
Death
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To everything there is a season. A time to be born, and a time to die. For some it's grandma or grandpa. For others it's mom or dad. For som...
The One Thing That Could End Humanity
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve gotten so good at adapting to our surroundings that at this point, most natural disasters don’t pose much of a threat to our species as a wh...
Synesthesia: The 6th Sense
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1812, a physician by the name of Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs was writing about the nature of albinism, having had the condition himself. Color was a ...
The Psychology Of The Anti-Hero
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I have a pretty serious confession to make. I don’t like Superman. Before you destroy me in the comments, I know this is an unpopular opinion, but t...
Nanotechnology: A New Frontier
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nanotechnology is ironically becoming larger by the day, but not literally. As a field, Nanotechnology impacts each and every one of us more every sin...
A.I is getting too good (Chat GPT, AI Art)
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how an evil artificial intelligence might try to take over the world? Well first, the AI would attempt to gain access to as man...
How Short Your Life REALLY Is
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I've been thinking a lot about life. And when people say that they usually mean what they want to do in life. Whether that be their career. Or relatio...
The History of The Entire Universe in 10 Minutes
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The entire Universe, every electron, proton, atom, every star and galaxy, was born out of a singularity that brought about our whole existence. The Bi...
Money: Humanity's Biggest Illusion
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The illusion of money is one that we never really think about. But just like the Kings of old, the governments of today understand the power of money ...
TikTok Is Causing A Mass Psychosis
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In June 2019, Kirsten Muller-Vahl, a psychiatrist at Hannover Medical School and head of its Tourette’s outpatient department, noticed unusual sympt...
Everything We Don't Know
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even with the small steps and the giant leaps we’ve made as a species, there is still a lot to learn about earth, life, and the human condition. The...
What If Black Panther Was Real?
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who is your favorite superhero? There are so many to choose from that it can be tough to pick just one, but for millions of people, the answer is undo...
Can Your Dreams Tell the Future?
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever had a feeling that something big was going to happen, and then it does? A study by the American Psychological Association defines a prec...
Taoism: The Philosophy of Flow
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daoism views the ideal human existence as one that relates strictly to nature and the Universe. It stresses that to truly live well, we must be in har...
How to Build Better Habits
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why some habits are so easy to maintain, like brushing your teeth, while others are so hard to build, like working out daily? What can we learn from J...
Nihilism: The Belief in Nothing
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For some, the meaning of life is the love we share with friends, family, and our loved ones. Some others believe the existence of life in itself is wh...
The Butterfly Effect
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Butterfly Effect - Chaos Theory Explained. Dive into the most fascinating theories of humankind and learn how it might be affecting your own life....
Thoughts That Will Make You Question Reality
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here are some of my most frequent shower thoughts. I'm not sure what it is about these, but i'm always stunned by some of them. They make you think, q...
What Is Time?
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of time has been occupying many intelligent minds throughout here. How much do we know about time? How much more is there to learn about i...
Are We Alone?
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The James Webb telescope has recently shown us the incredible depth of our universe. With so many stars, plants and other cosmic objects, what are the...
The Real Meaning of Life
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The question that every single one of us has pondered upon at least once. Some have already found the meaning of life, some are still searching and so...
Dark Web: The Unseen Side of The Internet
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been to the dark web? How is the dark side of the internet different from ours? What can you do, buy, see and learn on the other side?&n...
Artificial Intelligence: Mankind's Last Invention
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How much do we know about artificial intelligence? Yes, some of our technology already qualifies as AI but how far can we take it? Will it ever be jus...
Is the Universe a Simulation?
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Could we be living in a simulation? Has the world around you been created in an ultra-high-tech computer? What about the people in your life? What abo...
Stoicism: Become Undefeatable
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stoicism helps us steer through past and present storms into calmer and more peaceful waters. And if our ship sinks and we all drown, we can take peac...
The English Language Is a Giant Meme..
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wanted to learn how to speak English? Here's a tip: don't. English is confusing. Silent letters, triple contractions, words that don't make any s...