A podcast about our different inner mental experiences. Presented by Vynn Suren and Francis Irving.
Why can some people imagine and others can't? How do different people experience emotion? How is our view of our own minds influenced by our culture?
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A podcast about our different inner mental experiences. Presented by Vynn Suren and Francis Irving.
Why can some people imagine and others can't? How do different people experience emotion? How is our view of our own minds influenced by our culture?
How does Hurlburt's method of sampling what is happening in our minds work? What have we learnt from it about the variety of our everyday inner worlds - from thinking without symbols, to schizophrenia, to guitar playing?
Welcome to another episode of "Imagine an apple"!
Today, Vynn interviews Francis about his new favourite book "Investigating Pristine Inner Experience". The book describes Russell Hurlburt's "Descriptive Experience Sampling" method, and what we've learnt from it.
Timestamps:
00:53 Why Francis likes the book
02:55 Hurlburt and his method
09:34 Scepticism
13:58 Unsymbolized thinking
18:22 Sampling yourself
25:59 Variety of inner experience
30:30 Schizophrenia, emotion
39:38 Benefits, guitar playing
48:10 Sonder
Show Links:
* Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12296608-investigating-pristine-inner-experience] - book by Russell T. Hurlburt
* Descriptive Experience Sampling Codebook [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu//codebook.html] - Russell T. Hurlburt and Christopher L. Heavey
* My mind sampling results [https://www.flourish.org/2024/04/my-mind-sampling-results/] - Francis' blog
* RussHurlburt's YouTube Channel [https://www.youtube.com/@RussHurlburt] - Recordings of DES sessions
* Inner Experience in Bulimia [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/doucette-and-RTH-1993-inner-experience-in-bulimia.pdf], Fragmented Experience in Bulimia [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/jones-forrester-and-RTH-2011-fragmented-experience-in-bulimia-nervosa.pdf] - papers by Hurlburt
* Sampling normal and schizophrenic inner experience [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1990-97399-000] - book by Hurlburt
* Sonder [https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder] - definition in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Contact Details:
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Email: imagine@flourish.org
Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]
Imagine an apple
A podcast about our different inner mental experiences. Presented by Vynn Suren and Francis Irving.
Why can some people imagine and others can't? How do different people experience emotion? How is our view of our own minds influenced by our culture?
