This is the second episode of MA’NĀ Podcast in English Mohammad Al-Mosawi sits down with a leading Professor of Formal Philosophy and Logic: Vincent Hendricks. Together, they unpack the logic of “infostorms,” the viral life of memes, and how social media platforms increasingly resemble automated casinos, ecosystems that inflate and deflate attention bubbles while trapping us inside personalized information bubbles.
The episode probes how, in an age of informational overload, attention has become a form of compensation. The discussion also explores memes not merely as entertainment, but as condensations of collective knowledge. Against this backdrop, they reflect on “main character syndrome” as more than a psychological quirk: as a contemporary form of personal metaphysics, where individuals construct their own center of reality, narrative, and cosmic significance.
Guest(s): Professor of Formal Philosophy and Logic: Vincent F. Hendricks
00:20 – Meet Vincent F. Hendricks
01:30 – What Is Philosophy, Really?
03:20 – Thinking with Logic
07:10 – The Brain Runs Scripts
09:40 – AI & Lazy Thinking
12:00 – Layers of Consciousness
14:50 – Metacognition & Awareness
16:10 – Social Media vs Autonomy
19:00 – What Is Knowledge?
21:00 – Bullshit vs Truth
24:30 – Logic in Conversation
28:00 – Why Memes Go Viral
31:00 – Emotion Drives Sharing
32:30 – The Casino Brain (Dopamine)
34:00 – Doomscrolling Psychology
37:20 – The Attention Economy
40:00 – Attention = Consciousness
41:40 – Information Overload
42:30 – Meme Logic & Common Knowledge
46:30 – “It Is What It Is” (Tautologies)
52:00 – Science vs Reality Models
56:00 – Main Character Syndrome
59:00 – Bubbles & Attention Markets
01:03:00 – Ego vs Reality
01:06:30 – What Is Truly Necessary?
01:08:00 – Epistemic Humility (Socrates)
