{"podcast":{"title":"Deep Psychology","slug":"deep-psychology-6651282","podcast_index_feed_id":6651282,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/deep-psychology/","website_url":"https://www.deep-psychology.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/10fb5f43-7246-44a0-9948-871ebdded993/pZDc8hL-kCzDYOWmMpboZo5R.png","author":"Ross Edwards","episode_count":238,"summary":"Deep Psychology Podcast with author and coach Ross Edwards Psychology, meditation and self-observation for deeper self-knowledge New episodes Wednesday; snippets on Thursday, Sunday and Tuesday Explore my 200-episode archive by category: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-cats Follow my fortnightly newsletter: https://eepurl.com/iQjAiw My books & music: https://deep-psychology.com/my-links","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T08:20:26.681497+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-psychology-6651282"},"episode":{"title":"Does Science Actually Describe Reality?","slug":"does-science-actually-describe-reality","published_at":"2026-04-19T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-psychology-6651282/does-science-actually-describe-reality","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-psychology-6651282","url":"https://www.deep-psychology.com","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9884a79a-9928-4082-a5fe-4578461c4729.mp3","summary":"Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholes For example, science will say a human is really just cells, which are really just atoms, which are mostly nothing! No - the human is the human. It is irreducible. Sure, we can analyse and parse it, but the constituent elements are not the human, by definition. This is a snippet from my episode Science is Addicted to Explanations (#140).","meta_description":"Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholes For example, science will say a human is real…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":352,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deep-psychology-6651282/episodes/does-science-actually-describe-reality/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deep-psychology-6651282/does-science-actually-describe-reality.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}