Oddly Influenced

About Oddly Influenced

A podcast about how people have applied ideas from outside software to software.

Publisher

Brian Marick

Category

education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Jul 2022

Latest episode

20 Jun 2025

Latest episodes

7 of 55 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   E52: Emotions as concepts

   This episode explores the theory of constructed emotion, explaining how emotions are learned and constructed similarly to concepts, with a focus on internal sensations over external perceptions.

2. 

   8 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   E51: Constructed memories (a nugget)

   This episode explores the idea that memories are constructed from stored templates, questioning if concepts operate similarly, drawing insights from Suzi Travis and Lisa Feldman Barrett.

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   7 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   E50: the preferred level of abstraction (a nugget)

   The host explores the concept of a preferred level of abstraction in cognitive science, examining how humans categorize objects and ideas at a specific level that balances abstractness and concreteness.

Inside a recent episode

E51: Constructed memories (a nugget)

Published 8 Jun 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] This happens, Travis supposes, because the brain constructs memories, rather than retrieves them. Remember that Lisa Feldman Barrett likes to think of the brain as discovering and storing statistical regularities in experience. One such regularity is what it looks like to sit behind the steering wheel of a car. Another is what a car looks like head on. Another is what a narrow -wish country road through vegetation looks like. My visual memory of that incident is plausibly from the brain, mixing and matching those templates to invent a good enough image when I asked it for that memory. In the first version of that memory, the countryside was pretty distinct. […]

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

86

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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