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Where The Wild Thoughts Are

Where The Wild Thoughts Are

Date de sortie : 2025-10-27
© Jo Marchant & Julian Mayers
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Date de sortie : 2025-10-27
© Jo Marchant & Julian Mayers
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Consciousness at the edge of chaos

Consciousness at the edge of chaos

Standing waves and resonant frequencies appear everywhere in the world around us, from musical notes and swaying bridges to electron orbits and animal coats. This week's guest, neuroscientist Selen Atasoy, wondered if they could also be found in the bra
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Standing waves and resonant frequencies appear everywhere in the world around us, from musical notes and swaying bridges to electron orbits and animal coats. This week's guest, neuroscientist Selen Atasoy, wondered if they could also be found in the brain.
Her work has led to a new way to understand different states of consciousness -- from anaesthesia through our normal waking state to meditation and psychedelics. She explains how changes in our awareness reflect a shifting balance between order and chaos, and why psychedelics may tune the brain closer to a critical point of maximum complexity.
I talk to Selen about what this all means for our understanding of the mind, including how modern life may be blunting our awareness, and whether consciousness might be possible elsewhere in the natural world, beyond the human brain.
This isn’t the end of Selen’s story, though, as she recently trained as a psychotherapist. We discuss what inspired her leap from objective science towards a more personal exploration of the mind, and how we can all find harmony within.
Selen's home page
https://www.selenatasoy.com/
Selen’s first paper on harmonics in the brain (2016)
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10340
Selen’s paper on harmonics and LSD (2017)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079612318301018
Selen’s paper on meditators (2023)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.16.567347v1.abstract
Video of Chladni sand patterns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFAcYruShow
Harmonics and animal coat patterns
https://www.math.ttu.edu/~anpeace/files/Math5354Papers/murray_SciAm.pdf
MeTruely
https://www.metruely.com/
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Date de publication : 27/10/2025 à 08:00:00

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We’re talking about science. But not just any science...
Each episode, journalist Jo Marchant meets researchers who are doing things differently: challenging our assumptions, stretching our minds, and changing how we see the world.
We’ll be pushing boundaries from cosmology and quantum physics to neuroscience, archaeology, ecology… Jo’s guests are asking deep questions, chasing outrageous dreams, and exploring the world in completely new ways.
As well as learning about their pioneering ideas, we’ll hear their personal stories: what inspires their leaps of imagination; how they keep going despite the obstacles; the importance of thinking differently; and why we need creativity to survive. But most of all, Where The Wild Thoughts Are is about the wonder of peeking past supposed limits. Come into the wild with us, for a glimpse of what’s beyond…
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