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What Buddhist Epistemology Teaches Us about The Future of AI

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Continual Learning: World Models in Natural & Artificial Intelligence with Adam Safron

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Visionary Ventures & The AI-Native Avant-Garde with William Morgan of Restless Egg

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Rewilding Collective Attention: Bioregional Design for Life Online with Andrea Farias

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Games & Metrics: Agency as Art & Artifice with C. Thi Nguyen

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Collective Futurecrafting: Play, Trauma, and The Duty of Care with Mathew Mytka

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Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore

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(Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch

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AI Doesn't Have To Be This Way feat. Alex Komoroske

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Fostering "Prodigies of Uncertainty" with Layman Pascal

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Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith

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Co-Intelligence & Planetary Perspectives with Rimma Boshernitsan of DIALOGUE

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Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman

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Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein

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Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami

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Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse

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Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock

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Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór

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Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono

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Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae

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Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal

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The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean

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The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton

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Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio

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Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society

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Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination

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Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy

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Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous

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J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale

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Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics

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Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy

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Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media

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New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell

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Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan

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Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp

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Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots

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The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen

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Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle

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📚🧙🏼‍♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism

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⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time

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🐦‍⬛🐙🖤 230 - Jamie Curcio on Living in Mythpunk, Eldritch Complexity, and Finding The Bright Side of Dark Ages

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👾🖼️🏯 229 - Sara Phinn Huntley on Making A Field Guide to DMT Entities

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🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick

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🎙️🖇️🕸️ 227 - MG + Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: Network Philosophy, Caring Organizations, & Wiser Innovation

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📚🧐🦾 226 - Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism

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🤰🏽🧐🕸️ 225 - Alyssa Allegretti on Sacred Domesticity and Hard Times in The Liminal Web

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🔍👁️🔮 224 - Helané Wahbeh of IONS on Arguments against Materialism and for New Theories of Consciousness

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🔥🌎💒 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking Blasphemy

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👾🍄🧮 222 - Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness

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📯💗🌌 221 - Tom Morgan on Answering The Call of Destiny & Love As An Attractor

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🤖🌳📈 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking

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🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.

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🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality

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💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet

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🐦‍⬛🦖🕵🏼‍♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists

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🫂👩🏼‍💻🔍 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs

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👁️🔄📀 214 - J.F. Martel, Phil Ford, & Megan Phipps on Weird Cybernetics: Waking Up From The Ecstasy

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🕸️⛩️💻 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance

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🌏🚜🫀212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphere

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💻🍄🧙🏼‍♂️ 211 - Adam Aronovich on A Cultural Anthropology for The Psychedelic Internet

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👁️🧠🎧 210 - Mitch Schultz & Shanta Stevens on Documenting The Next Psychedelic Revolution

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🍄🎥👁️ 209 - Ken Adams on A Life of Psychedelic Film-Making & Collaboration with Terence McKenna

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👷🏽🌎🎊 208 - Building Cultural Capacity for A REAL Psychedelic Renaissance with Samantha Sweetwater, Ian-Michael Hebert, and Jahan Khamsehzadeh @ Psychedelic Science 2023

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🌊🏄🌱 207 - Tech & Community LIVE at Junkyard Social Club with Evan Snyder, Ryan Madson, Roger Toennis, Aaron Gabriel, & Juicy Life

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🤩🎻🤖 206 - Scout Rainer Wiley on AI vs. BS Jobs, The Return of Culture, and Eldritch Wonders in The Bright Apocalypse

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🎶⚔️👏🏼 205 - Greg Thomas & Stephanie Lepp on Jazz Leadership & Antagonistic Cooperation

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💐📚🏛️ 204 - Jamie Joyce on The Society Library and Tools for Making Sense Together

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203 - Kevin Kelly on Excellent Advice for Living, Playing with AI, and Staying Curious

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202 - Caveat Magister on Psychomagic, Amusement Parks, & Turning Your Life Into Art

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201 - KMO & Kevin Wohlmut on our Blue Collar Black Mirror: Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Adventure Time, ChatGPT, & More

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200 - Ehren Cruz & Daphne Krantz on Psychedelics, Addiction, and Transcendence

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199 - The Great Decoherence of Android Jones

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198 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Aliens, Land Spirits, & The Singularity (Part 2)

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197 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Lost Civilizations, and The Singularity (Part 1)

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196 - Robert Poynton on Improvisation As A Way of Life

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195 - A.I. Art: An Emergency Panel with Julian Picaza, Evo Heyning, Micah Daigle, Jamie Curcio, & Topher Sipes

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194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions

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193 - Kimberly Dill on Environmental Philosophy: In Defense of Wildness & Night

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192 - My Cataract: An Initiation 👁✨

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191 - Roland Harwood on Learning To Be Liminal

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190 - Lauren Seyler on Dark Microbiology & Right Relations in Science

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189 - Planet-scale Musical Chairs: 21st Century Human Geography with Parag Khanna

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188 - LARPing as a Nation-State with Jon Hillis & 0xZakk of CABIN DAO and Christian Lemp of Diamond DAO

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187 - Fear & Loathing on the Electronic Frontier with Kevin Welch & David Hensley of EFF-Austin

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186 - A Manifesto for Weird Science

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185 - What Good Is Conversation? Jonathan Rowson, Bonnitta Roy, Jason Snyder, Ashley Colby, & Stephanie Lepp Play Liminal Lingo Bingo Amidst The Metacrisis

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184 - Henry Gee on The History & Future of Life on Earth (& Much Else!)

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183 - The Evolution of Poetic Song Verse with Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez

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182 - Siv Watkins on Microanimism: Living with The Smalls

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181 - Jim Rutt on The Pre- and Post-History of GameB

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180 - Web3 & Complex Systems with Park Bach, Sid Shrivastava, Shirley Bekins, & Avel Guénin-Carlut at Complexity Weekend

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179 - Scout-Lieder Wiley on Transrational Oracles & Magical Thinking in The 21st Century

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178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutions

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177 - Systems Design & Extended Cognition at Complexity Weekend with Tom Carter, Jenn Huff, Pietro Michelucci, and Richard James MacCowan

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176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summit

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175 - C. Thi Nguyen on The Seductions of Clarity, Weaponized Games, and Agency as Art

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174 - Evan "Skytree" Snyder on Sound Design for A Robotic Built Wilderness

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173 - Daniel Shankin on Psychedelic Integration - The Path of the Heart

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172 - Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Systems Thinking, Fractal Governance, Ontopunk, and Queering W.E.I.R.D. Modernity

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171 - Eric Wargo on Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time Travel

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