Sophus Helle
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A Study in Scarlet (EN)
What makes us us? Is there a feature that unites humans as a species while setting us apart from every other animal? Tool use, perhaps, or language or consciousness? This episode is about the hunt for a biological trait that would pull us all together and why that trait is so hard to find. Even if we do discover a single attribute that is hardwired into our collective brains—like our obsession with the color red—it will always dissolve into difference in the end.
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Why Alexander Wept (EN)
Desire is a strange thing. It is always raging inside us, driving us on to our next pursuit. But figuring out where it comes from or where exactly it is taking us can be surprisingly tricky. Sophus ponders the nature of desire, reflecting on a quote from Die Hard, a scene from Calvin and Hobbes, why he’s not a Buddhist, and what a diamond failed to teach him.
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Drowning a Dragonfly (EN)
Why do kids kill insects? It is a strange, disturbing fact that so many of us have, at some early point in our lives, plucked wings off butterflies, burned ants with magnifying glasses, or, in Sophus’s case, drowned a dragonfly. But where does semi-psychotic instinct comes from? In this episode, Sophus explains that our encounter with insects—whether as kids or as adults—is like a miniature moral lab, where we can experiment with our relation to the world.
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The Sex Talk (EN)
When we speak of “sexual orientation,” we really just mean whether people are gay, straight, or bi. But people differ from each other in many other interesting ways. Sex, as a realm of difference, is much richer than this single orientation implies. When I talk with my friends about their desires, I am often surprised by how many things it is possible to want.
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Spellbound (EN)
We all make typos. Spelling mistakes range from the harmless to the disastrous, and they are almost impossible to get rid of. But what can typos teach us? What do they reveal about language and the human mind? This episode explores the hidden history of spelling mistakes, delving deep into their demonic past and discovering the forgotten origins of the Demogorgon, an ancient monster brought back to fame by the TV series Stranger Things.
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Monkey Mind (EN)
What makes the human mind human? In this episode, your host Sophus Helle explains how he came up with the title for the podcast. In between anecdotes from the British tax system and philosophy on the significance of volcanoes, he entertainingly tells the story of a supernatural character Sun Wukong - or Monkey - who, through his energy and excitement, functions as a metaphor of the human mind, and a story of Homo Heidelbergensis which brings us back to the topic of volcanoes.
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Forgetting to Forget (EN)
What do you do, when a bad memory keeps haunting you? Forgetting is not done intentionally. You can wish to forget, but doing so only makes you remember even more. Paradoxically, the less you care about neither remembering or forgetting is the only way, you will manage to forget anything. Even worse, you might easily forget whatever you deeply want to remember.
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Serendipity (EN)
Where do words come from? In this episode of Monkey Mind, Sophus Helle wonders about the history and etymology behind the word "serendipity". His monkey mind jumps from the gothic classics like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to fairy tales and letter writing, and he explores the dawn of literary genres like crime fiction and horror.
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Going Blank (EN)
How many unspoken words of significance does a blank page carry? In the vein of last week's episode, Sophus Helle continues to talk about memory. This episode concerns losing one's memory unwillingly. The last episode was about remembering and wanting to forget, while this one is about forgetting while wanting to remember.
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A Theory of Dog Ears (EN)
What makes a real book lover? Is it protecting your books from all signs of use, keeping them clean and in perfect condition? In this episode of Monkey Mind, Sophus Helle argues that loving one's books can also be expressed by bringing them along everywhere, leaving notes in the margins and dogears to revisit special paragraphs.
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