#41 – Why you are an entire universe that is dying out, and why that's okay.

08/12/2025 14 min Episodio 41

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Episode Synopsis

What if the apocalypse wasn't the end of the Earth, but simply the end of your world?Alice and Marc revisit the film The Life of Chuck from a new angle: the neuroscience of consciousness. Drawing on the theory of Controlled Hallucination, they decipher why the death of a single man is comparable to “a burning library” and how your brain populates your reality with the “ghosts” of the people you encounter.A dizzying reflection on our finitude, proving that in the face of the inevitable extinction of our inner universe, the only sensible response... is to dance.

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