Lumen Radley is a podcast of long-form audio essays and research field notes on AI, software, cognition, and modern life. Some episodes are tightly produced essays. Others are dispatches from ongoing research. The common thread: each piece aims to leave you with a sharper model of something that matters.
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Myth isn't a story -- it's cognitive technology. The oldest and most powerful software the human mind has ever produced, still running in you right now. From Lévi-Strauss to Boyer, from Greek fire-theft to modern conspiracy, how myths encode survival knowledge into memorable narrative form.
Why the storage metaphor for human memory is wrong, what the science actually shows, and how understanding memory as a prediction engine changes daily life -- from encoding myths to evidence-ranked techniques.
A mental model for moving through the landscape of all human knowledge. Sixteen parts installing a cognitive instrument -- from Vernadsky's coinage through Popper's World Three to Indra's Net.