Talking about consciousness baby! In this one I cover some stuff:

What is the hard problem?

What are some weak ass common responses to the hard problem, focussing specifically on the computational theory of mind (CTM).

Implications of CTM.

Criticisms of CTM

What else might be going on?

And why the real winning move is not to play.

ENJOYEEEEE

I keep having more things to say about AI!

Todays episode is about psychic poisoning, depths vs surfaces, and AI art vs the human soul.

I keep talking about AI because I think the phenomenon of generative AI is illuminating something about consciousness, by automating things that we didn't previously imagine could be automated, it's revealing what cannot be automated. It's revealing an aspect of what it means to be human.

PS There's a section in the podcast about art history. My mum, Jayne Jones, is an artist and art teacher, and a lot of my art history knowledge comes from conversations with her.

I only pretend to know what postmodernism means, while she has a degree in pretending to know what postmodernism means.

So I'm sure she will be slightly horrified with how I've synopsized it in this episode, and I just want to say: any mistakes, distortions and oversimplifications are mine.

At what point is never better than late? We push the envelope this week with a podcast episode on the July 21st 2023 cinematic phenomena Barbenheimer!

Me, Michael Porcelli, and my very own wife Lindsay Chrisler, exchange hot takes and deep in the weeds analysis about these two radically different, yet strangely intertwined movies.

Christiane Pelmas is a teacher and mentor in the realms of the erotic, ecology, ethics, soul, myth, sexuality and intimacy.

Today she’s talking with me about her wild and fun transformational origin story, as well as the power of telling stories for healing, the dangers of materialism and more.

If you want to dig deeper into her work, you can find her here: https://www.christianepelmas.com/

I talk with Michael Porcelli about reasons to fear and hope as we enter a new period of history, the Age of AI.

Topics include

• What's happening right now?

• An overview of the technology, how it works and what makes it different from previous computing technologies

• The good news / bad news of technology

• Economics and copyright

• Searching for depth

• Implications for Art

• Machine Consciousness

• The alignment problem

• Intelligence explosion

• And then we get into some more Sci Fi stuff at the end there

Teacher, coach and founder of The Relateful Company, Jordan Myska Allen, jumps onto talk about MANY THINGS.

• What is relatefulness?

• Nerding out on the limitations of Circling and T-Group

• Constraint based practice vs Options based practice

• Opening to beauty in all its forms

• Meditation and non dual stuff

• and lots more

ZEN!

And Poetry!

Zen teacher and Poet Brooke McNamara has a lovely chat with Robbie about many things.

Introducing The Sane & Miraculous!

Host Robbie Carlton gives an overview of the territory we’ll be exploring in this podcast.