THE PODCAST · HOSTED BY HOWARD A. ROSE
Anatomy of
Experience
THE SCIENCE AND SOUL OF BEING HUMAN
We mapped the body. Experience is next.
Four hundred years ago, anatomists opened the human body and drew what they found. This show does the same for experience — brain, body, technology, spirit.
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SET & SETTING
The room is part of the medicine
Psychedelic therapy runs on an old rule called set and setting: mindset and place shape what an experience does to you. The ceremony knew it first. The clinic, the concert hall, the headset are all catching up.
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FEATURED CONVERSATION
When a video game is a prescription
Adam Gazzaley built the first FDA-approved video game prescription. A doctor can literally write a script for it.
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SOUND & MEMORY
Four notes and a tenth symphony
The composer of the Intel bong finished Beethoven’s Tenth with AI. Now he wants music to be medicine.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
Shifting realities
Three decades of magazine covers dreaming virtual reality, looking back at us looking forward.
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The science and soul of being human
Neuroscientists, healers, and technologists redrawing what it means to be human.
New conversations and essays, monthly.
TEDMED & TEDx speaker · Emmy-nominated Inside Covid-19 · a Frontier Realms production
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FOUR WAYS IN
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GUESTS REDRAWING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN