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EP 338 Jeff Giesea on Dionysian Futurism
Season 1 Episode 338
Jim talks with Jeff Giesea, entrepreneur, writer, and founder of the Boyd Institute, about his essay "Dionysian Futurism" and the broader question of…
6 hours ago
EP 337 Worldviews: Philip Rosedale on Emergent Worlds, Localism, and What Building Second Life Taught Him About Humanity
Season 1 Episode 337
Jim talks with Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab and creator of the game Second Life, about the nature of self, society, and the design …
1 week ago
EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance
Season 1 Episode 336
Jim talks with Rufus Pollock—entrepreneur, activist, Zen practitioner, founder of Life Itself and the Open Knowledge Foundation, and author of Open R…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
EP 335 Worldviews: Samantha Sweetwater
Season 1 Episode 335
Jim talks with Samantha Sweetwater about her book True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World and the question of what it means to be h…
4 weeks ago
EP 334 Worldviews: Joscha Bach
Season 1 Episode 334
Jim talks with cognitive scientist and AI researcher Joscha Bach about the computational and representational foundations of consciousness, mind, and…
1 month, 1 week ago
EP 333 Worldviews: Iain McGilchrist
Season 1 Episode 333
In this Worldviews episode, Jim talks with Iain McGilchrist about consciousness, matter, and the nature of reality. They discuss consciousness as the…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
EP 332 Worldviews: Jim Rutt
Season 1 Episode 322
In a special edition of the new Worldviews series, Brendan Graham Dempsey asks Jim about his life and worldview using a faith development interview. …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
EP 331 Worldviews: Michael Shermer
Season 1 Episode 331
Jim talks with Michael Shermer about his worldview and his new book, Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters. They discuss Michae…
2 months ago
EP 330 Worldviews: Ben Goertzel
Season 1 Episode 330
Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about his worldview. They discuss Ben's morning experience of consciousness crystallizing from ambient awareness, his ide…
2 months, 1 week ago
EP 329 Worldviews: David Krakauer
Season 1 Episode 329
In the inaugural episode of a new series, Jim talks with David Krakauer about his intellectual formation and worldview. They discuss what woke up as …
2 months, 2 weeks ago