how many holes we got anyway? ft. dr kristian kemtrup

This episode we ask the dumbest smart question we could find: how many holes does a body actually have? It's a topology bit that turns into an epistemology bit, because it turns out "how many holes" depends entirely on how you define a hole — and that's basically the whole problem with diagnosing a mind too. We get into why mental illness makes a lot more sense as a functional disease than a static one — not a broken part, but a broken process, which is a very different thing to try to fix. That takes us from William James's pragmatism all the way to Mark Solms's neuropsychoanalysis, with some cybernetics and emergent-systems thinking in between, because apparently we can't talk about the mind for twenty minutes without also talking about ontology. We get it wrong a few times along the way. That's kind of the point though. Thanks again Dr. Kristian!