{"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":"Science is Addicted to Explanations","slug":"science-is-addicted-to-explanations","published_at":"2026-04-15T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-updraft-7045130/science-is-addicted-to-explanations","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-updraft-7045130","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/science-is-addicted-to-explanations--71350405","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71350405/ae483e4e_3fa3_421d_be44_5479eeb7eca3.mp3","summary":"What if models were not the only way to understand reality? What if they created deep blind spots, biases and paradigm lock?We continue our April series on the philosophy of science with a look at how science is built on models and explanations, and the problems this creates.These problems extend through much of science, because it is founded on model making.After this, listen to my episodes from April 1st and April 8th to hear all my in-depth critiques of science.Philosophy category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9 Explore my 200-episode podcast library: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-cats Newsletter & books: https://deep-psychology.com/my-links","meta_description":"What if models were not the only way to understand reality? What if they created deep blind spots, biases and paradigm lock?We continue our April series o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1810,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-great-updraft-7045130/episodes/science-is-addicted-to-explanations/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/science-is-addicted-to-explanations.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}