Transdisciplinary essays and dialogues with paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield exploring the edges of the known and knowable, human-technology co-evolution, and how to develop the playfulness we need to thrive in our age of accelerating weirdness.
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RIP Wendell Berry
“Problems of propriety are never ‘solved.’”
Many people remember Wendell Berry, if they know of him at all, as something like The Lorax: a caricature of environmental conservation. But a close reading of his work reveals incredible nuan...
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Originally commissioned by David Jay Brown for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Journal in 2012. Republishing now because it feels more pertinent than ever. Maybe even quaint.
Before we begin — and before you eithe...
What Buddhist Epistemology Teaches Us about The Future of AI
For Part Two in our Continual Learning mini-series, Dr. Nadav Amir of The University of Ottowa joins me and guest co-host Dr. Adam Safron of Tufts University for a trialogue on the fundamental role of goals in intelligence.
Nadav draws on...
Continual Learning: World Models in Natural & Artificial Intelligence with Adam Safron
What does it actually mean for a machine to “understand” the world? Are today’s auto-regressive LLMs truly reasoning, or is statistical text prediction fundamentally distinct from genuine deliberative agency and causal inference? And how do...
Visionary Ventures & The AI-Native Avant-Garde with William Morgan of Restless Egg
Today’s guest is , the co-founder of Restless Egg, a London-based incubator and accelerator designed specifically for a new class of “artist-founders” whose work synthesizes art, technology, and commercial product design.
As Morgan writes...
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Evolutionary biologist turned feral scholar & wandering bard for an age of transformation. Award-winning futurist. Art & music volcano. Ex SFI, Long Now, Mozilla. Experiencer & precog. Professionally curious & ontologically weird. Here to help.
Tokyo. Computational neurobiologist, pharmacologist, and chemist. I write about the science and culture of psychedelics and other psychoactive drugs.
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