{"podcast":{"title":"The Theory of Anything","slug":"the-theory-of-anything-859886","podcast_index_feed_id":859886,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/14b6fc10/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/c/brucenielson/membership","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/3375364/3375364-1690501163627-161f1070cc703.jpg","author":"Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen","episode_count":140,"summary":"A podcast that explores the unseen and surprising connections between nearly everything, with special emphasis on intelligence and the search for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through the lens of Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge. David Deutsch argued that Quantum Mechanics, Darwinian Evolution, Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge, and Computational Theory (aka \"The Four Strands\") represent an early 'theory of everything' be it science, philosophy, computation, religion, politics, or art. So we explore everything. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brucenielson/membership","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-theory-of-anything-859886"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 136: Michael Golding on Mental Illness and Universal Explainers","slug":"episode-136-michael-golding-on-mental-illness-and-universal-explainers","published_at":"2026-03-31T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-theory-of-anything-859886/episode-136-michael-golding-on-mental-illness-and-universal-explainers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-theory-of-anything-859886","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/four-strands/episodes/Episode-136-Michael-Golding-on-Mental-Illness-and-Universal-Explainers-e3h51q1","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/14b6fc10/podcast/play/117654785/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-29%2Fb1cc33c8-db2b-b51c-bac8-c312eb1c107e.mp3","summary":"This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Golding, M.D, who is a psychiatric physician. He is also heavily influenced by the philosophical ideas of David Deutsch and Karl Popper. At one point he calls himself a proponent of homeschooling and Taking Children Seriously. Together we wrestle with what critical rationalism and the universal explainer hypothesis suggests about mental illness and human creativity. Steven Peck's "My Madness" ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support us on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ X: @mgoldingmd","meta_description":"This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Golding, M.D, who is a psychiatric physician. He is also heavily influenced by the philosophical ide…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7771,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-theory-of-anything-859886/episodes/episode-136-michael-golding-on-mental-illness-and-universal-explainers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-theory-of-anything-859886/episode-136-michael-golding-on-mental-illness-and-universal-explainers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}