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Dr. Miklos Lukacs is a Research Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima, Peru. He also happens to be one of the leading critics of transhumanism, which he defines as the technologically-driven push for super longevity, super intelligence, and super wellbeing. Lukacs argues that this campaign threatens the historical relationship between humans and technology, where our tools serve us, rather than the other way around. He worries that by placing such an outsize importance on external tools, we allow ourselves to be molded into an entirely new form that emerges not from bottom-up evolutionary forces, but from an external, top-down locus of control. Our conversation lays out the basics of what Lukacs identifies as transhumanism, and then turns to an exploration of how to balance progress with tradition.

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00:00 Go!
00:03:55 What is transhumanism, really?
00:11:58 Out-shining god
00:18:17 Does transhumanism have a clear vision of the future?
00:24:30 Bottom up planning
00:36:35 Morality & evolution
00:45:27 Killing in the name of
00:57:01 The human animal
01:01:21 Institutions and human nature
01:09:42 P**n, universal morality
01:14:00 Blame culture, Bentham
01:20:29 Clubs v. universality
01:26:14 Reacting to the pain of traditional gender roles
01:32:04 Body modification & the human-machine hybrid
01:38:56 Corruption of protected identity groups
01:45:50 City life & tradition wasting

#Transhumanism #Humanity #Technology #Ethics #Philosophy #Evolution #SciencePolicy #Longevity #Intelligence #Wellbeing #Progress #Tradition #HumanNature #TechnologicalSingularity #Posthumanism #Enhancement #BottomUpEvolution #TopDownControl #HumanTechnology #Futurism #TranshumanCriticism #longformpodcast

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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.

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Anastasia has been reading Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization, so we decided to sit down for a meta conversation about petroleum, prime movers, and geopolitics. This solo chat ties together a bunch of the conversations we've had on the show in the last year about climate, technology and the energy transition. Historically, we've been pretty skeptical when people start banging on about the need to transition to a completely electric grid, but Smil makes a really compelling point - all human endeavors depend on motive power. We go further to consider the downstream consequences of the prime movers we rely on, the risk of this being the last civilization for the next 20 million years, and the strange software called "progress" that was installed in humans when we departed from our primate roots.

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00:03:34 Material supplies do run out: assumption#1
00:09:38 Oil production going down or no?
00:15:38 If we run out, do we go back to horse & buggy times?
00:20:08 Why can't nuclear save the day?
00:24:47 The actual electric universe
00:29:00 Lucius Appeleus
00:39:14 Population & growth fears
00:43:48 Who or what are the barriers to Electricland
00:49:47 Diesel's failed vision
00:54:15 Why are we racing toward the future?
00:57:57 Relief of sufferring at the cost of all else
01:03:07 Calhoun & density epibehavior
01:06:51 Godlike machine future
01:10:49 Does AI threaten meaningful life?
01:18:56 Convenience v. painlessness
01:26:35 Solution set is in sight

#Transhumanism #Humanity #Technology #Ethics #Philosophy #Evolution #SciencePolicy #Longevity #Intelligence #Wellbeing #Progress #Tradition #HumanNature #TechnologicalSingularity #Posthumanism #Enhancement #BottomUpEvolution #TopDownControl #HumanTechnology #Futurism #TranshumanCriticism #longformpodcast

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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.

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Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan is a professor at the School of Quantum Technology at the Defense Institute of Advanced Technology. Unnikrishnan is also a key member of the LIGO-India project and a member of the global LIGO Scientific Collaboration. His work has led him to some revolutionary conclusions about the nature of gravity, light, and the missing medium for these invisible actions. Our conversation gets into the details of his Machian approach to understanding the cosmos, which his calls "cosmic gravity." We discuss Henri Bergson's criticism of relativity, Einstein's transformation into quantum mascot, and issues with simultaneity in cosmic physics. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!

Paper discussed in this podcast:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1466/1/012007

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00:00 Go!
00:04:57 Revisiting old experiments to learn something new
00:13:23 A lack of absolute reference points
00:25:05 Reevaluating Einstein a Century On
00:35:22 Testing the constancy of the speed of light
00:43:25 Why is breaking physics preferred to an undetectable aether?
00:54:36 Evidence of light speed changes
01:04:39 Could Michaelson & Morley have given a different result?
01:21:16 Why was Michaelson's 1925 detection of the aether ignored?
01:25:38 Henri Bergson, Einstein, and Simultaneity
01:33:17 Simultaneity that is experienced
01:42:19 Mathematical elegance in conflict with reality
01:48:59 Is revisiting the constancy of light speed possible?
01:56:08 The solutions offered by a Machian paradigm
02:03:59 One universal frame intro
02:09:10 Are there two theories about light possible, or can only one prevail?
02:20:54 Is there an alternative to fields?
02:29:36 Closing thoughts


#sciencepodcast, #QuantumPhysics, #CosmicGravity, #LIGOIndia, #MachianPhysics, #QuantumTechnology, #Einstein, #HenriBergson, #Relativity, #QuantumMascot, #Simultaneity, #GravityTheory, #PhysicsPodcast, #ScientificCollaboration, #Astrophysics, #CosmicPhysics, #ScienceRevolution, #theoreticalphysics , #QuantumMechanics, #LIGOProject, #PhysicsCommunity

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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.

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-Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

This is Dr. Hughes second appearance on the podcast. His background is in biochemistry and biophysics of protein folding, and water hydration structures. But today we're digging under the floorboards of science itself. Is it possible to have a science that isn't built on some set of assumed values? To tackle this issue, we dig into esoteric mysticism - particularly the work of Rudolph Steiner, who prophesized many of the features of the world we see today back in the late 19th century. This leads us to a path where we explore the modern scientific approach to understanding nature, grounded in materialism in all its splendor and shortcomings, asking where do we go from here? What does a healthy science of the future actually look like? Tell us your thoughts in the comments!

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REFERENCES FROM THIS PODCAST:

Remote viewing archeology w/ Stephen Schwartz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwcEyflmaxk

Tom Campbell

Interview with Curt Jaimungal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kko-hVA-8IU

Tom’s home page: https://www.my-big-toe.com/

Dolores Cannon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Cannon

Gigi Young

Esoteric keys to disclosure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpGFUcLNHueY9of3kmOxpjok_aNGx_Z6W

Rudolf Steiner

Archives: https://rsarchive.org/Volumes.html

New thinking aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX4j4qBsqyk

Bashar/Darryl Anka

https://www.bashar.org/about

Interview w/ Danica Patrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCtvgJG1I5A

CIA gateway/interview with remote viewer on Shawn Ryan show?

CIA gateway tapes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTon6qgVws

Ways of being by James Bridle

https://jamesbridle.com/books/ways-of-being

00:00 Go!
00:05:39 Genetics Alchemy vs Structural Biology Mechanism
00:15:44 A natural mechanism that's distinct from science
00:21:07 Scientific literature as esoterica
00:30:10 Is scientific myth-making meaningful?
00:36:14 Science as a way of putting order to pure chaos
00:44:29 A full theory of nature has to contain more than science
00:52:13 Can science pinpoint the source of ideas, inspiration, and instinct?
01:01:00 Rudolph Steiner's spiritual science
01:10:40 preference for sensation as a driver of evolution
01:19:34 Religious allegory as an evolutionary roadmap?
01:29:41 A fracturing of evolutionary paths - technological, spiritual, material
01:41:00 The arc of dematerialization over the course of a lifetime
01:44:41 The immaterial vs the material, the crisis of our time?
01:53:29 Where is the source of misanthropy?
02:05:46 Stay awake
02:14:40 Reconciling a desire for Newtonian outcomes with the chaos of possibility
02:25:30 Closing thoughts

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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.

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Kate Raworth is an Economist best known for “donut economics,” a model that attempts to map the balance between essential human needs and planetary boundaries. She proposes that the last few hundred years of economic theories were created with a monomaniacal focus on growth that was only possible on a planet with relatively untapped natural resources. After more than two hundred years of industrial development, older economic theories cannot be applied to the necessities of today. Namely, a sustainable material economy for the generations yet to come. We talk about what an economic system that provides for everyone’s basic humans needs can look like, places that have started putting donut economics to use, and how to balance personal responsibility with survival in an unjust system. Check out more of Kate Raworth's work at the Donut Economics Action Lab: https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics

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00:00 Go!
00:04:33 Economics as moral philosophy
00:06:59 How do you measure human development?
00:10:19 Why don't we economically develop "developed" countries
00:13:36 Donut economics
00:20:50 Regulation as friend of foe?
00:31:17 Michael Hudson & GDP failures
00:42:57 Feeding the economic algo
00:53:34 Escaping the market
01:05:20 Democratic spending
01:14:10 Siingle handed top down effectiveness
01:23:29 Applying Donut Econ
01:31:00 Air traffic is mostly private flights
01:36:27 Convenience vs. doing the right thing
01:41:49 Voting with your credit card

#sciencepodcast #DoughnutEconomics #SustainableEconomics #PlanetaryBoundaries #HumanNeeds #EconomicTheory #GreenEconomics #CircularEconomy #SocialFoundations #EnvironmentalCeiling #EconomicJustice

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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.

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Warren Mosler is an economist, hedge fund manager, and proponent of modern monetary theory, an economic model that posits fiscal crises are caused by governments not spending enough money. From Mosler’s perspective, the reversal of any recession starts with getting very comfortable with deficit spending. Opponents argue that unchecked spending eventually leads to inflation of the currency and economic collapse, which Mosler argues is impossible as long as you know how money actually works. We dive deep into chartalism, the theory about the creation of money that sits at the heart of MMT, lay out why deficit spending doesn’t have to lead to inflation, and why the Federal Government’s checks will never bounce. To read more about Modern Monetary Theory and Mosler’s take on it, check out https://moslereconomics.com/

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(00:00) Go!
(00:03:05) Do interest rates actually influence inflation?
(00:11:36) Purpose of taxes is not what you think
(00:19:26) Economy as faith based activity
(00:27:22) Feds have no idea where money comes from?
(00:37:33) Fed lacks tools to control inflation
(00:53:37) Interest at the Treasury is unnecessary
(01:07:00) Informed democracy & decision making
(01:20:15) Michael Hudson
(01:25:11) Why are we poorer despite the GDP?
(01:41:53) Weimar repeat possible?
(02:06:44) Threats from external economies?
(02:28:58) Oil demand can't be ignored

#sciencepodcast #ModernMonetaryTheory #MMT #Macroeconomics #FiscalPolicy #GovernmentSpending #Chartalism #MonetaryTheory #DeficitSpending #Inflation #EconomicTheory

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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.

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MUSIC:

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