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Aperture
by Underknown
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://bit.ly/ApertureSpotifyMost people never ask the questions that actually matter. Not because they aren't curious. Because nobody told them it was allowed. Aperture explores philosophy, psychology, science, and the forces quietly shaping human civilization. Consciousness, reality, society, the future of humanity. We go wherever the ideas lead and don't stop when it gets uncomfortable. New episode every Tuesday.
Episodes
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The Terrifying Secrets of the 4th Dimension
What if reality has a dimension you can’t see? Up, down, left, right. These directions define how you experience the world. But what if there’s more to reality than the three dimensions you know? From the mind-bending geometry of a four-dimensional universe to Einstein’s spacetime and the role of...
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You are the Universe Experiencing Itself | Spinoza's God
Every atom in your body was forged in the heart of a star. The calcium in your bones, the iron in your blood, the oxygen in your lungs, all of it was born in cosmic furnaces billions of years ago, long before the Earth even existed. Every atom inside you traveled across the universe for...
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Where Your Consciousness Goes When You Sleep
Every night, you close your eyes and lose contact with the world. The room disappears, your identity fades, and for several hours, you enter one of the greatest mysteries in human existence: sleep and dreams. From ancient portals to modern psychology, humanity has always felt that dreams reveal...
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The Greatest Lie You've Been Told About Modern Society
You were taught to share before you understood ownership. To sit still before you understood why. To raise your hand before you understood who gave anyone the right to decide when you could speak. Nobody called it conditioning. They called it growing up. By the time you reached school, the...
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Artemis II: The Moon Was Never Enough
Four humans left Earth for the Moon. The first in 53 years. We named the program after Apollo's twin sister. Not the god of reason or science. The god of wild places. Of everything that lies just beyond the edge of what we know. That choice wasn't accidental. Apollo took us there and brought us...
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The Man Who Solved Addiction | Carl Jung
Think about the last time you couldn't stop. Not just alcohol or drugs. The scroll that went an hour longer than you meant. The food you didn't want but kept eating. The relationship you knew was wrong. The thought loop you couldn't exit. Compulsion isn't a character flaw. It isn't weakness.…
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Your Brain's Ancient Warning System is About to Fail
For 300,000 years, your brain has had one job it never missed. Detect what isn't human. Not through logic. Not through analysis. Through something much older and much faster, a visceral, instinctive signal buried deep in your nervous system that fires before you can even form a conscious thought....
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AI is Causing a Mass Psychosis
In summer 2025, TikToker Kendra Hitly went viral accusing her psychiatrist of grooming her into falling in love with him. The allegation was serious. People were paying close attention. Then the more she posted, the less believable it got. What started as a potential medical misconduct case…
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The Death of Critical Thinking: How Stupidity Took Over
For the first time in recorded history, IQ scores aren't rising. They're falling. The Flynn Effect, the steady climb in human intelligence across the 20th century, went into reverse somewhere around 2010. The same year smartphones became universal. That's probably not a coincidence. But IQ…
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The Highest Levels of Dimension and its Terrifying Consequences
Most people think of dimensions as directions. Left and right. Forward and back. Up and down. But what if that comfortable assumption is completely wrong? The physical laws that bind you aren't universal. They're local. Conditional. Entirely dependent on the fact that you're trapped in the third...
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Why You Should Stay Single
This Valentine's Day, let's talk about the loneliness no one posts about. Have you ever felt lonelier in a relationship than when you were single? Physically with someone, yet emotionally miles apart. Longing for a connection that never quite lands. You're not alone. Studies show 1 in 4 people in...
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The Depressing Psychology of Deep Thinkers
What if your greatest strength was slowly destroying you? To know more than others can feel like both a blessing and a curse. You notice patterns others overlook. You recognize problems long before they're acknowledged. Yet slowly, quietly, your mind gets crushed under the weight of truths it has...
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The Highest Levels of Thinking | Why Society is Stuck at the bottom
You have access to more information than any generation in human history. So why is society still stuck at the bottom? Human civilization is built on pyramids. Not just the stone ones baked under the Egyptian sun, but invisible structures of thought, meaning, and awareness. Layers of cognition…
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How Therapy-speak is Destroying Your Mental Health
The words designed to heal you are now being used against you. There's a strange shift happening in how we talk about emotions. On the surface, it sounds healthy. Emotionally intelligent. Even enlightened. But beneath the polished language is something far more unsettling. "Setting boundaries."...
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Every Level of Consciousness
Right now, something inside you is reading these words and experiencing them. No one can explain why. Consciousness doesn't make sense. Sights. Sounds. Smells. Texture. The warmth of love. The sting of sadness. The cold weight of heartbreak. Why do we experience any of it? Why does it feel like...
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The Psychology of People Who Don't Post Their Photos on Social Media
You took the photo. Your thumb hovered over "post." Then something in your stomach said don't. You've felt it before. A great night out. A perfect moment. You open the app, pick the filter, start typing a caption. And then a quiet voice asks, "Why am I doing this? Who is this actually for?" Some...
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The 7 Levels of Reality
You experience reality every second of every day. But do you actually understand it? We know more about the surface of distant planets dozens of light years away than we do about our own existence. We understand more about the forces governing black holes than why we have a sense of self. The…
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The AI Takeover Is Closer Than You Think
By 2027, we may cross the most dangerous milestone in human history. And there's no coming back. AI experts from around the world are sounding the same alarm. At its current rate of progress, artificial intelligence could stop being a tool and start improving itself beyond our control. Not in…
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Why Nihilism is Taking Over Modern Society
Nihilism has a problem. It's a belief system about believing in nothing. And that contradiction is just the beginning. There's a difference between someone who loses faith in everything and someone who chooses nothingness as their philosophy. One is broken. The other is deliberate. And both are...
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The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment: Roko's Basilisk
What if a future AI could punish you for not helping to create it? Not in some distant hypothetical. Not in a movie. Right now, based on what you choose to do after reading this. That's the premise of Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment so disturbing that when it was first posted online, the...
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The Universe’s Biggest Secrets
The universe is hiding things from us. This episode is about what it doesn't want you to know. Are we living inside a simulation? Is there an advanced civilization out there, watching and waiting? What happens when the universe finally dies, and how will it end? These aren't hypotheticals. These...
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Master Stoicism in 60 Minutes: The Philosophy That Will Change Your Life
Everything has an end. The question is how you carry yourself before it does. Stoic philosophy has persisted for over two thousand years for one reason: it works. Not as a theory. Not as an academic exercise. As a way to face the worst life can throw at you and still stand. From Zeno, who lost...
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Every Lie You Believe In
Everything you believe to be true was shaped by something you didn't choose. Your past. Your upbringing. Your culture. Your pain. Every experience you've ever had built a lens that sits between you and reality. And you've been looking through it so long you forgot it was there. What you call…
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Your Subconscious Mind is Ridiculously Powerful
You think you know why you do what you do. You probably don't. Every decision you make is driven by something. But most of the time, you have no idea what that something actually is. You tell yourself it's logic. It's passion. It's ambition. But underneath all of that, buried where you can't…
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How to Become a Stoic in the Modern World
Rain doesn't bother you. But what about when the streets flood and you can't leave your house? What about when you can't afford the home you want? When your investments plummet? When you're laid off without severance? These are the problems that haunt our nights and fill our days with despair....
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Why You're Doomed to the 9-5 Trap
"People simply empty out. The color leaves the eye. The voice becomes ugly. Everything does." Your eyes ache after another day staring at a screen. Your legs turn to jelly behind the cash register. Your skin fades under fluorescent warehouse lights. The 9-to-5 isn't just draining your energy.…
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Life's Biggest Questions
You've asked yourself these questions before. Probably late at night. Probably alone. Why are we here? What happens when we die? Is there a purpose to any of this? Do we have free will, or is everything already decided? These aren't just philosophical puzzles. They're the questions that keep us…
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Optimistic Nihilism: nothing matters, but it’s ok
If nothing matters, why bother getting out of bed? If we're all just specks of dust floating through space and time, what's the point in trying? Building relationships seems futile when everyone you love will eventually die. Self-improvement feels meaningless when the universe won't remember your...
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Signs You're in a Cult
You've probably been influenced by a cult and don't even know it. Not the kind with robes and compounds. The modern kind. The ones hiding in plain sight inside your social media feeds, your favorite communities, and the influencers you trust the most. Cult leaders have always understood something...
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Game Theory: Winning the Game of Life
Every decision you make is a game. You just don't know the rules yet. When you negotiate a raise, you're playing a game. When you decide whether to trust someone, you're playing a game. When you choose a lane in traffic, pick a side in an argument, or figure out whether to cooperate or compete,...
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How Stoicism Can Make You Rich
The best financial advice you'll ever get is 2,000 years old. And it has nothing to do with the stock market. Forget the get-rich-quick gurus. Forget the social media charlatans selling courses about passive income. Forget every financial influencer telling you they found the secret. They didn't....
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Shower Thoughts That Actually Make Sense
Warning: these thoughts will make perfect sense and absolutely no sense at the same time. These are shower thoughts. The strange, random, accidentally brilliant ideas that only show up when your brain is left completely alone. And once you hear them, you can't unhear them. This episode is a...
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How Crypto Scammed The World
Someone invented a currency worth trillions of dollars. Then they vanished without a trace. In October 2008, a paper appeared online that would change the world. "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," written by someone called Satoshi Nakamoto. Shortly after, Nakamoto posted on a…
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Shower Thoughts That Make Me Question Everything
Thoughts that keep me up at night. 🔔 Subscribe to Aperture for episodes that range from deeply philosophical to beautifully absurd.💬 Share this with someone and watch them stare at a wall for ten minutes processing. #ShowerThoughts #MindBlown #Philosophy #FunFacts #DeepThinking #BrainTeasers...
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Algorithms are Destroying Society
An algorithm told them what to do. They did it. Someone's life was destroyed. We trust algorithms every day without thinking twice. They tell us what to watch, what to buy, where to drive, who to date. But what happens when we hand them something far more dangerous than our attention? What…
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BlackRock: the Company That Controls* the World's Governments
You haven't been awake for an hour and you've already interacted with BlackRock six times without knowing it. Your iPhone alarm. Your Amazon delivery. Your Johnson & Johnson medicine. Your Microsoft laptop. Your McDonald's breakfast. Every single one of these companies has one thing in common…
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Dating Apps Are More Dangerous Than You Think
Meeting people in real life is hard, maybe harder these days than ever before. When you meet someone in real life and want to ask them on a date, you’re taking a big risk. And we’re all hyper-aware of that risk, well, most of us. The odd thing about this is that even with all of their issues,...
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Marcus Aurelius and the Guiding Principles of Stoicism
Aurelius was a philosopher before anything else. Regarded as the last of the Five Good Emperors of Ancient Rome, a term coined by Niccolo Machiavelli in the 15th century, it was his Stoic philosophy that differentiated him from his predecessors. Learn about his teachings. Stay connected with...
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How AI Is Saving Humanity
"The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make." This statement was made by mathematician Irving John Good in 1965. He was envisioning a machine smarter than any human who had ever lived, one that would design even smarter machines and leave humans in the dust....
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Shower thoughts that everyone asked for..
My strange shower thoughts that I bet you had too... Stay connected with Aperture: Website: https://aperture.gg/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApertureScience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theapertureyt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheApertureYT Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch
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The Entire History of Humanity in 10 Minutes
From sharing the earth with many other human species merely as hunter gatherers trying to brave the elements, to building rockets, creating the internet, and now with our eyes set on Mars, the history of humanity is one that’s filled with determination, cooperation, and ingenuity. We have done…
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How to Get Rich
It's what every person has asked themselves at least once before. How do I get rich? How can I make the most money possible? How to become a millionaire? I get it, being rich is sick, but have you really ever considered how much it actually takes to get there? It's a lot, and this is going to…
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What If NASA Wasn't Broke?
How much could NASA achieve if it had unlimited budgets? Could we have found aliens or exoplanets better for life than Earth? Could we have learned more about black holes, stars, moons and other galaxies? Let's find out. Stay connected with Aperture: Website: https://aperture.gg/ YouTube:...
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How Money Works
How does the word "money" affect you? Do you feel positive and ambitious or anxious and scared? Money controls our lives every day, so how does it work? How can you sure to earn and save money? Stay connected with Aperture: Website: https://aperture.gg/ YouTube:...
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Absurdism: The Real Meaning of Life
Life is meaningless, sure, and the only rational course of action is to behave as such. There is no plan, no objective truth, and everything happens purely by accident. But this doesn’t necessitate nihilism. If we instead choose to embrace the Absurd, we can view our circumstances as an…
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Your Favorite Youtuber Will Soon Be Replaced By AI
How do you know that the voice you are hearing right now is human? Most of you have no idea what I look like, so how can you tell I’m a real person? What if your favorite YouTuber is actually an AI? Audiences should never have to guess whether or not the voice they are listening to is human. Stay...
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This Platform Might Be Worse Than TikTok
We’ve talked extensively about the dangers of TikTok. But what if I told you that Snapchat was way more dangerous? That while TikTok’s influence is more subtle and psychological, Snapchat puts young people at immediate, sometimes life-threatening, risk. Stay connected with Aperture: Website:...
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How Big Is the Universe?
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and pondered about your very own existence? Maybe you were camping out with some friends, or all alone marveling at the liquid night plastered with countless glowing stars. Well, you’re not alone. It just so happens that looking above and contemplating the...
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The Scariest Thing About ChatGPT No One Is Talking About
Imagine you had a personal search assistant who could not only track down answers in a fraction of a second but could break down complex topics, offer personalized recommendations, and even do your work for you. It’s a scenario you might not have to imagine for too long because Microsoft through...
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Overstimulation is Ruining Your Life
Turns out that diving deep into our own thoughts is something that we don’t really like to do. We find it boring, and we’ll do anything to alleviate boredom, even if it means subjecting ourselves to self-inflicted electric shocks. This, sadly, is not an exaggeration. You’d be surprised what your...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://bit.ly/ApertureSpotifyMost people never ask the questions that actually matter. Not because they aren't curious. Because nobody told them it was allowed. Aperture explores philosophy, psychology, science, and the forces quietly shaping human civilization. Consciousness, reality, society, the future of humanity. We go wherever the ideas lead and don't stop when it gets uncomfortable. New episode every Tuesday.
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