Brief: Is There a "Deep Self"

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Social Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.0 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Billionaire tech bro Marc Andreessen recently claimed introspection is a pathology. Derek and Julian discuss the Trump advisor's claims while the investor continues making bank from defense technology. Show Notes The Mind is Flat: Nick Chater The Mind is Flat | Nick Chater | Talks at Google Susan Blackmore Review of The Mind is Flat The Tell-Tale Brain: VS Ramachandran Consciousness and the Brain: Stanislas Dehaene This Is Your Brain on Music: Dan Levitin Musicophilia: Oliver Sacks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.2	You said something that I love and I never hear other entrepreneurs talk about, but I think
1:05.6	it's super important, that you don't have any levels of introspection. Yes, zero. As little as
1:09.5	possible. Why? Move forward. Go. zero, as little as possible. Why?
1:11.0	Move forward, go.
1:12.2	Yeah, I don't know. I've just found people who dwell on the past, get stuck in the past. It's just a real problem. And it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. So I've read obviously 400, I think now 10 biophys of history-scraiseres entrepreneurs. And that was one of the most surprising things. like what's the most surprising thing that you've learned from this?
1:26.2	So they have little or zero introspection?
1:28.2	Yeah.
1:28.4	Like Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.
1:31.3	He just, And that was one of the most surprising things. Like, what's the most surprising thing that you've learned from this? They're like, oh, they have little or zero introspection.
1:28.2	Like Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.
1:31.3	He just woke up.
1:32.0	He was like, I like building Walmart.
1:33.4	I'm going to keep building Walmart.
1:34.3	I'm going to make more Walmarts and just kept doing it over and over again.
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