Michael Edward Johnson is a co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute and an independent researcher in the fields of consciousness, neuroscience and philosophy. Michael is, in my view, one of the…
In this episode of Seeing Clearly, MIRI President and co-author of If Everyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Nate Soares and I discuss existential risk from artificial super intelligence. We first run…
In this episode of Seeing Clearly, professor Michael Huemer and I run through his argument for moral realism: the thesis that there are objective moral facts knowable via intuition. We cover every…
Factory farming is humanity’s greatest sin. In this episode I speak with Itsi Weinstock, an animal welfare advocate at Senterra Funders. We talk about what’s really going on in factory farming, why it…
Watch UNRAVELING THE DREAM: Jake’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@FrameProblemsJake’s X: https://x.com/jakeorthwein1:08 — Origin of the film4:00 — Bayesian brain, predictive processing, free energy…
Dr. Ogi Ogas is a mathematical neuroscientist and, in his own words, a prophet. This is our conversation on God and consciousness.1:44 — Who or what is God?17:06 — Mind vs. matter, purpose vs.…
In this episode we talk with Moral Law Within about God, secular morality, moral realism, reasons, intuitions, Kantian ethics, and more. Florence Bacus is a PhD student at Harvard studying Kantian…
Leona is a consciousness researcher, a practitioner of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra and the Cofounder of The House of Hyperstition (hyperstitio.us).This was an enlivening conversation that only got better…
1:24 — Live music3:33 — Predictive processing and normativity17:41 — Identity22:07 — Emotions as an error signal24:40 — Is/ought gap27:50 — Abstraction, conceptual scaffolding, pragmatism31:47 —…
Richard Bartlett (@RichDecibles) is a community organizer and Vibe Mechanic at Casa Tilo. In this episode we discuss rebuilding a high trust society, bottom-up coordination, super organisms, purpose,…
