Episodes

  • Classification - Uncover the systems that organize our world with Felix Mercer

    Classification - Uncover the systems that organize our world with Felix Mercer
    Apr 16 2026
    Join host Felix Mercer as he dismantles the hidden architecture of how we sort the world—from species to human minds. This series reveals the cognitive tricks and power dynamics behind every naming system, exposing how inherited boxes shape what we see and what stays invisible.

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    1 min
  • Classification - When We Rank the Mind

    Classification - When We Rank the Mind
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer explores how we classify human thinking through Bloom's taxonomy and the DSM, revealing that these systems don't just describe mental processes—they prescribe what counts as good thinking and normal feeling. When we sort minds into boxes, the classification changes the people inside them.

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    31 mins
  • Classification - How Your Brain Builds Boxes

    Classification - How Your Brain Builds Boxes
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer explores how your brain builds categories before you're conscious of it—using prototypes, rules, and messy shortcuts that shape everything from scientific knowledge to stereotypes. Discover why penguins feel like "suspicious birds" and how the boxes you inherit determine what you see.

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    32 mins
  • Classification - The Invisible Architecture of Linnaeus

    Classification - The Invisible Architecture of Linnaeus
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer examines how Carolus Linnaeus's classification system became so universally successful it disappeared from view—and what that invisibility costs us. We explore binomial nomenclature's power, taxonomy's assumptions, and how Linnaean categories marginalized Indigenous knowledge systems organizing life through connections rather than categories.

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    26 mins