Jul 28, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min · 13 segments
This episode features Georg Northoff, a neuroscientist, philosopher, and psychiatrist, discussing spatiotemporal neuroscience and how these dynamics shape consciousness and mental illness. He explains…
Georg NorthoffGuest
Curtis Holt-RobinsonHostPaul MooreHostSo what did you make of it? How did he strike you? And how did his ideas strike you?
I wouldn't be terribly familiar with his ideas, and it was nice to have the opportunity just to acquaint myself a bit more with them.
And I thought it was a really, really interesting and quite expansive perspective way of thinking about the mind.
I mean, you know, we're so I suppose and this is part of maybe every kind of school of thought in some ways, like we're so steeped in one approach.
It doesn't I don't think it figures quite strongly in his in his way of of thinking, maybe I'm doing him a disservice now by saying that, but, you know, because he's very he's very much steeped in the whole.
Tradition of what we might think of as the phenomenology of self and the subject, the subjective experience of the person.
So, again, that's just like for me, aligns itself so strongly to clinical experience, which maybe I felt was, you know, for where I'm at with understanding him felt a bit more relatable from a clinical perspective than maybe some of the some of the material or some of the ways we have a thinking about it that are more Soamesian and Pangsepian.
I felt I was very interested in his idea of speed, you know, like speeding things being sped up for the person or slowed down for the person.
I like the way he linked that to freud's paper on mourning and melancholia and that idea of things getting getting kind of really slowed down for the person and not being able to to kind of shift gears within themselves and so that whole piece i felt like as well he was kind of bringing maybe back um like freud's economic hydraulic model a little bit when he was talking about things like power and energy and speed.
And, you know, it just catches the vitality of of the process in a different way.
He was in he was really thoroughly enjoying enjoying the discussion, you know, which is lovely, lovely to see.
So what did you make of it? How did he strike you? And how did his ideas strike you?
I wouldn't be terribly familiar with his ideas, and it was nice to have the opportunity just to acquaint myself a bit more with them.
And I thought it was a really, really interesting and quite expansive perspective way of thinking about the mind.
I mean, you know, we're so I suppose and this is part of maybe every kind of school of thought in some ways, like we're so steeped in one approach.
It doesn't I don't think it figures quite strongly in his in his way of of thinking, maybe I'm doing him a disservice now by saying that, but, you know, because he's very he's very much steeped in the whole.
Tradition of what we might think of as the phenomenology of self and the subject, the subjective experience of the person.
So, again, that's just like for me, aligns itself so strongly to clinical experience, which maybe I felt was, you know, for where I'm at with understanding him felt a bit more relatable from a clinical perspective than maybe some of the some of the material or some of the ways we have a thinking about it that are more Soamesian and Pangsepian.
I felt I was very interested in his idea of speed, you know, like speeding things being sped up for the person or slowed down for the person.
I like the way he linked that to freud's paper on mourning and melancholia and that idea of things getting getting kind of really slowed down for the person and not being able to to kind of shift gears within themselves and so that whole piece i felt like as well he was kind of bringing maybe back um like freud's economic hydraulic model a little bit when he was talking about things like power and energy and speed.
And, you know, it just catches the vitality of of the process in a different way.
He was in he was really thoroughly enjoying enjoying the discussion, you know, which is lovely, lovely to see.
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