In this episode, we dive into the human brain’s default mode network as a potential filter for reality, Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden’s paper on the inevitable fate of Homo sapiens, and some of the more disturbing aspects of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End.

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