Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Unconscious Mind Doesn't Communicate in Language
The title Kekule's Problem comes from the chemist who was famously known for discovering the structure of the benzene molecule by having a dream in which he saw Snake eating its own tail. McCarthy really wants to talk about two of the biggest ideas I think you can psychology. One is, what is the unconscious and what is it doing? And two, what is language? How did it emerge? And what is its relation to the unconscious?
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