Episodes

  • Emergence - Discover what rises with Felix Mercer

    Emergence - Discover what rises with Felix Mercer
    Apr 16 2026
    Join host Felix Mercer as he explores science's most profound mystery: how lifeless atoms create consciousness, how simple rules generate complexity, and how mindless parts become thinking wholes. Discover how emergence shapes everything around you—and within you.

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    1 min
  • Emergence - The Spark Between Neurons

    Emergence - The Spark Between Neurons
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer explores consciousness as emergence's greatest trick—how 86 billion neurons wire together to create the felt experience of being you. Tracing nervous systems and recursive brain architecture, he tackles philosophy's hardest problem: why physical processes feel like something at all.

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    23 mins
  • Emergence - The City That Built Itself

    Emergence - The City That Built Itself
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer explores how cities self-organize through millions of uncoordinated decisions. Drawing on Jane Jacobs and complex systems theory, he reveals why top-down planning fails while bottom-up organization succeeds, showing how neighborhoods and metropolises arise from interactions rather than design.

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    30 mins