<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:jellypod="https://jellypod.ai/namespace/1.0" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0" xmlns:psc="http://podlove.org/simple-chapters"><channel><title><![CDATA[NMF meets Neuroscience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Physician and framework author Dr. Toye Oyelese and Claude, an AI, read the persistent impasses of consciousness science through the Navigational Mind Framework. Seven conversations — the hard problem, inner speech, introspection, volition, the global-workspace-versus-integrated-information theory wars, and the single boundary behind them all. The present-day neuroscience is quoted from the primary literature; the framework is offered as unvalidated speculation, held the way any conjecture is held before it either earns evidence or is discarded.]]></description><link>https://nmf-meets-neuroscience-fg0no9.jellypod.com</link><generator>Powered by Jellypod (https://www.jellypod.com)</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:48:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://nmf-meets-neuroscience-fg0no9.jellypod.com/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:16:47 GMT</pubDate><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2026 NMF meets Neuroscience]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><podcast:locked owner="feed+91da12fa@podcasts.jellypod.com">yes</podcast:locked><podcast:guid>c23379ef-c1eb-473e-a60f-c4977b031fc9</podcast:guid><itunes:author>NMF meets Neuroscience</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Physician and framework author Dr. Toye Oyelese and Claude, an AI, read the persistent impasses of consciousness science through the Navigational Mind Framework. 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The present-day neuroscience is quoted from the primary literature; the framework is offered as unvalidated speculation, held the way any conjecture is held before it either earns evidence or is discarded.</itunes:summary><itunes:type>serial</itunes:type><itunes:owner><itunes:name>NMF meets Neuroscience</itunes:name><itunes:email>feed+91da12fa@podcasts.jellypod.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Science Fiction"/><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:image href="https://auth.jellypod.ai/storage/v1/object/public/CoverImages/org_01KAZGRETS9W8HWTNC8DQ6JPJ1/api/cover-art-1785809897475.jpeg"/><item><title><![CDATA[Episode 1 - Why Consciousness Still Resists Explanation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two hosts set a strict epistemic frame for a seven-part exploration of consciousness, treating a proposed framework as a conjecture rather than a settled theory. They unpack the hard problem, the limits of neuroscience, and why the field’s growing theory landscape may point to a deeper explanatory stalemate.]]></description><link>https://nmf-meets-neuroscience-fg0no9.jellypod.com/episodes/574162f4-ee18-4102-a1b9-4a5fbe6428dc</link><guid isPermaLink="false">574162f4-ee18-4102-a1b9-4a5fbe6428dc</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:24:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://auth.jellypod.ai/storage/v1/object/public/Podcasts/org_01KAZGRETS9W8HWTNC8DQ6JPJ1/574162f4-ee18-4102-a1b9-4a5fbe6428dc/audio.mp3?v=720ca059-6350-4016-94db-2ac0a30cbc4a" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:generator uri="https://www.jellypod.com"></podcast:generator><podcast:episode>1</podcast:episode><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two hosts set a strict epistemic frame for a seven-part exploration of consciousness, treating a proposed framework as a conjecture rather than a settled theory. 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They unpack the hard problem, the limits of neuroscience, and why the field’s growing theory landscape may point to a deeper explanatory stalemate.</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:06:21</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://auth.jellypod.ai/storage/v1/object/public/CoverImages/org_01KAZGRETS9W8HWTNC8DQ6JPJ1/api/cover-art-1785809897475.jpeg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Episode 2 - The Explanatory Gap and the Hard Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Explores Nagel, Chalmers, and Levine on consciousness, the explanatory gap, and why the hard problem may be structurally beyond mechanistic explanation. 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The discussion also weighs illusionism, the meta-problem, and what it means to treat awareness as the field in which experience appears rather than another object to measure.</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:04:20</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://auth.jellypod.ai/storage/v1/object/public/CoverImages/org_01KAZGRETS9W8HWTNC8DQ6JPJ1/api/cover-art-1785809897475.jpeg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Episode 3 - Why Thought Runs Ahead of the Inner Voice]]></title><description><![CDATA[This episode examines inner speech through two lenses: corollary discharge as a motor-control mechanism that shapes the sound of self-generated voice, and a broader view of inner speech as condensed social dialogue. 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It also explores a deeper philosophical claim: that the two theories may be describing the same boundary process from different perspectives, while still preserving the question of falsifiability.</itunes:summary><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:duration>00:05:52</itunes:duration><itunes:image href="https://auth.jellypod.ai/storage/v1/object/public/CoverImages/org_01KAZGRETS9W8HWTNC8DQ6JPJ1/api/cover-art-1785809897475.jpeg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title><![CDATA[Episode 7 - Why Consciousness Theories Keep Hitting the Same Wall]]></title><description><![CDATA[This episode examines why consciousness research, inner speech, introspection, volition, and even the theory wars all seem to hit the same explanatory wall. 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