{"podcast":{"title":"The Great Updraft","slug":"the-great-updraft-7045130","podcast_index_feed_id":7045130,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5980454/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-great-updraft","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/4f8e5969403b6f409d6caa604b09ef1d.jpg","author":"Ross Edwards","episode_count":280,"summary":"The Great Updraft means sweeping upward growth. The name is a metaphor for the journey towards our greatest expression. My goal is to help you live a full life. I’ll help you become satisfied on all levels: psychological, social, financial, spiritual, professional, and more, integrating the many threads into a sublime whole. The GU is the set of tools you need to unlock your full potential. Visit my site","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T08:21:09.971535+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-updraft-7045130"},"episode":{"title":"Does Science Actually Describe Reality?","slug":"does-science-actually-describe-reality","published_at":"2026-04-19T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-updraft-7045130/does-science-actually-describe-reality","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-updraft-7045130","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/does-science-actually-describe-reality--71466149","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71466149/9884a79a_9928_4082_a5fe_4578461c4729.mp3","summary":"Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholesFor 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.","meta_description":"Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholesFor example, science will say a human is reall…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":352,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-great-updraft-7045130/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/the-great-updraft-7045130/does-science-actually-describe-reality.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}