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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…
10 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