S8E8 - E8: Chorus; S8: Dissociative Heaven/Hell

This episode surprised me.

I thought I was going to introduce an old song I wrote in 1993. Instead, somewhere in the middle of talking about Alcoholics Anonymous, AIDS, immigration, bowling, a retired schoolteacher named Rich (formerly Richard… formerly Earl), and why it’s possible to enjoy something for absolutely no reason…

…I accidentally wandered into a conversation about dissociation.

Not clinical dissociation, necessarily. The much more ordinary kind.

The possibility that consciousness itself is a kind of dissociation—a useful model that lets us navigate a world far too complicated to experience...