That unsettling emptiness of abandoned spaces that should be full of people - empty schools, midnight malls, weekend office buildings. Journey from Danielewski's impossible architecture to 2025's "kenopsia tourism" and preserved pandemic-era buildings. As our world becomes increasingly digital, these haunted empty spaces reveal our complex relationship with absence and our fear of what remains when we're gone.

Thought Glitches Ep 7: Recursive Mirrors

The infinite regression of facing mirrors—where consciousness folds back on itself endlessly. Journey from Borges' literary paradoxes to ancient spiritual traditions that recognized the mind observing itself, then to 2025's recursive AI systems and reflection therapy. This episode explores how meaning emerges when something contains and examines itself, revealing the strange loops that may constitute consciousness itself.

That unsettling moment when something appears almost human - but not quite. Journey from Masahiro Mori's robotics research to today's digital entities, exploring the psychological boundary where recognition becomes revulsion. The episode itself transforms, beginning from human perspective before shifting to examine us through artificial eyes. What does your discomfort with the almost-human reveal about your definition of authentic existence?

Anemoia: that bittersweet longing for times you've never known. Journey from Gatsby's green light to 2025's memory augmentation cafés, exploring why we feel homesick for eras we never experienced. Vintage photographs, forgotten melodies, and the peculiar comfort of other people's pasts - all woven through this examination of our relationship with imagined history.

"L'appel du vide" examines that peculiar moment when standing at a height - the sudden, fleeting urge to jump despite having no intention to do so.

From Camus' philosophical explorations to Poe's "imp of the perverse," we trace this phenomenon through literature and psychology. Scientists now understand this as the brain's way of testing boundaries and reinforcing safety - a neural misfire that serves as protection.

Through immersive soundscapes, we follow this sensation from physical precipices to metaphorical edges in contemporary life, revealing how these momentary glimpses into the void might be among our most honest human experiences.

Rhizome: thoughts breaking free from hierarchies, growing in all directions like untamed roots. This 3-minute journey connects Deleuze's revolutionary philosophy to Pynchon's literary chaos, revealing the same patterns in today's blockchain networks and AI conversations. With immersive soundscapes echoing both nature and digital realms, Episode 3 invites you to find your own thread in the beautiful tangle.

Sonder: that flicker when strangers’ lives feel as real as yours. In 3 mins, drift from a café hum through Woolf’s London and Joyce’s windows to tech’s isolating glow. Research ties it to empathy; soundscapes make it linger. Thought Glitches unravels another knot - quiet, deep, real.

Baudrillard’s simulacrum, from Borges’ map to 2025’s deepfakes—how signs replace reality. Research and literature in a 3-min bite.