The Natural Intelligence Podcast

The Natural Intelligence Podcast

By Inqwire, PBCSociety & Culture
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The Natural Intelligence Podcast episodes

  • Fundamentals 3. Our True Nature is Better Than We Think it Is

    We present the argument that our true nature is better than we think it is.

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    Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/

    3 min
  • Fundamentals 2. Why The Concept Natural Intelligence is Important

    We go into why the concept of natural intelligence is important in allowing us to name and point at something fundamental that humans need to restore and enhance.

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    Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense.  Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/

    8 min
  • Fundamentals 1. What is Natural Intelligence and Why Does it Matter?

    We present the idea of “natural intelligence”, what it is, and why it matters.

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    Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense.  Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together. Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/

    7 min
  • Introducing Natural Intelligence 101: How to Win the Race Against Insanity

    We introduce the series by giving an overview of the situation humanity is in, the common belief about the nature of humanity, and how this audio series will provide a different story about the nature of humanity and what we can do to create a world that makes sense.

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    Produced by Inqwire, a public benefit corporation on a mission to help create a world that makes sense. Inqwire is a technology platform designed to restore, enhance, and protect our natural ability to navigate towards what makes sense, alone and together.  Learn more: https://www.inqwire.io/

    4 min
  • Ep. 6 - How We Came to Mistrust Our Brains

    In this episode we continue looking at ways in which your ability to do sensemaking is being hijacked. We’ll focus on how the stories we have been told about our brain naturally lead us to not trust it to do sensemaking, and how the recent revolution in the cognitive sciences has revealed how the foundational experiments these stories were based on were wrongly interpreted - giving our brain a ‘bad rap’.

    It's as if our brain was convicted of a crime it didn’t commit, and now the new evidence is in. In this episode we explore what that evidence is and make the argument for how your brain can be fully trusted to do sensemaking.


    See the Full Show Notes: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep6

    1 hr 33 min
  • Ep. 5 - How Your Ability to Do Sensemaking Is Being Hijacked by Our 'Data Is King' World

    In this episode I sit down with Jill to talk about how we are living in a Data is King world. Meaning that when we are looking for truth, knowledge, or understanding, we dismiss the need to look for, learn, and apply known mechanisms for how the world works, and instead we have an erroneous belief that we can arrive at truth, knowledge, and understanding of just about anything simply by ‘looking at the data’ - that truth, knowledge, and understanding can emerge from data alone, which is not true. We talk about how this widespread belief and practice creates a fundamental problem for sensemaking.

    We then go on to look at how this ‘data is king’ stance has found its way into the domains people turn to when they want to do sensemaking, such as psychiatry, psychology, and meditation, and how it has shaped the nature of these practices as well as creating real barriers to engaging in sensemaking.

    See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep5

    1 hr 36 min
  • Ep 4. - Cleaning Up Your Mental Backlog and The Path to Becoming Unbothered

    In this episode, I talk with Jill about:

    • All the ways we find the act of thinking problematic and our minds problematic.
    • What we know from modern cognitive science about cognitive styles that block us from making sense of things, and cognitive styles that enable us to make sense of things.
    • How many popular perspectives fail to consider that different cognitive styles can block or enable sensemaking.
    • How without consciously making an effort to switch and exercise cognitive styles that help us make sense, the unresolved issues just pile up, resulting in a ‘backlog’.
    • How signs of this backlog are linked to a wide variety of mental illness and lack of well-being and more recently are being tied to precursors of Alzheimer's disease.

    • See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep4

      1 hr 9 min
    • Ep. 3 - Snake Oil, Personal Growth Systems, and Sensemaking - Part 2 [Audio Essay]

      This episode is an ‘audio essay’ that addresses the question: What would it take to ensure a system is free from limiting or biased ideologies that can distort or block people’s ability to do sensemaking? This episode explores the qualities, possibilities, and historical evidence for creating such a system.

      See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep3

      38 min
    • Ep. 2 - Snake Oil, Personal Growth Systems, and Sensemaking - Part 1

      In this episode, I talk with Jill about the sea of systems that exist out there in the personal growth and wellbeing space, and why sensemaking is fundamentally not just another system. We’ll be covering the lesser known realities of the placebo effect, what makes something snake-oil, how we use and trade maps about life, and what we would get if we learned to build our own maps for navigating life.

      See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep2

      47 min

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