Why Your Brain May Need More Chaos
Sometimes, the problem isn’t that everything is falling apart. It’s that everything is being held together too tightly.
Entropy has a bad reputation, but systems can become so committed to maintaining their existing order that they lose the ability to imagine anything else. In this episode, Ryan R. Campbell explores how that rigidity appears in the depressed mind, the organizations that cannot change, and the lives we build around arrangements that may no longer serve us.
Along the way, he considers emerging research into psilocybin-assisted therapy, Aldous Huxley’s “reducing valve,”…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.