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The Fourth Layer is a conversation space of the tension and paradox of being human, where our day to day, biology, narrative, and awareness comes to play. Also, a place where we can just laugh at the absurdity of life.
"Life is a solo experience but not a solitary existence."Layered Existentialism
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Most people start with the podcast, go a little deeper with the framework, then reach out. No wrong way to do it.
The easiest way in. Conversations and solo reflections on what it actually means to be human.
→ 02 Go deeperLayered Existentialism - a conceptual map of the four layers of human experience. Open, iterative, unfinished.
→ 03 Get involvedHave something to say, a story to share, or a critique to offer? This project is meant to be questioned and expanded - together.
→Most of us live on the surface - managing appearances, reacting to stimuli, narrating our lives into tidy arcs. The Fourth Layer is a map to help guide us through the human terrain, to go deeper: below the social self, below the story, and below the biology.
This is a space for the honest, the curious, the philosophical, trying to understand their own understanding of life.
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