Ideas on the Future

from Feeding Curiosity Hosted by Erich Wenzel

In this episode, Joe and Erich have a conversation starting with Yuval Noah Harari. From there the conversation branched into recent philosophy topics Joe has been working with. Finally, we transitioned into a more general conversation on the direction of the future and other ideas related to that. Show Notes (00:00) Catching up with Erich, Joe, & Nick (01:12) Yuval Noah Harari on Under the Skin Podcast (02:26) Intellectual Dark Web (02:39) Harari's definition of Humanism (04:12) Humanism, Empiricism, and Determinism (05:32) Newtonianism (08:03) Russel Brand's religious vibe (09:19) Russell Brand & Jordan Peterson (10:08) Materialism and Darwinian Philosophy (11:50) Today's news is not interesting (13:52) The Default Position (14:57) Emotional Arguing (16:10) Lessons about stating your opinion on Facebook (17:37) Examples of philosophical discourse (19:00) Fundamentalist (21:02) God Dilemma (22:42) Single Infinite Mind & Collective Unconscious (24:48) Berkeley Spark Notes (25:39) Berkeley's cup explanation (27:07) Coastline Paradox (29:23) So does this matter? (31:16) Reflections on subconscious growth (33:08) The value of a five-year plan (34:18) Resisting change / Comfort Zone (35:26) Becoming obsolete and evolving (37:45) Predicting the future of self-driving cars (39:40) Daniele Bolelli reflecting on virtual communities (38:20) University system constraints (40:32) Education evolution (41:58) VR Universities (43:12) Overspecialize (44:22) Real-life Idiocracy (47:12) What if idea #2 Egypt as a modern society (47:48) First computers (48:38) What if humanity was lost forever? (50:09) Humanity's resilience (54:14) Is what survives major catastrophes ideas? (56:05) Predicting the next Google (56:56) Brain-machine interfaces (58:47) People seem to be more pessimistic now (59:56) Is social media the root cause? (01:02:34) Creating AI to replace God (01:03:57) Modeling philosophical ideas for holes (01:05:24) Closing thoughts For more content checkout: Podcast - https://feedingcuriosity.net/podcast Blogs - https://feedingcuriosity.net/blog Blueprints - https://feedingcuriosity.net/blueprints

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