Meaning Making Machines

Simone Leon
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Meaning Making Machines

Meaning Making Machines connects the deep past with the imminent future through the search for the eternal, enduring, and essential. Join host Simone Leon as she discusses how we find and define meaning through art, religion, and technology. She'll be speaking to artists, technologists, technophobes, religious thinkers, and philosophers. Exploring the deep questions with a curious mind, and questioning everything. simoneleon.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    How to be Human in the Age of AI | Kyle T. | Episode 3

    Kyle is a crypto millionaire and a futurist. As a young adult, he was a part of the punk/anarchist scene in New Orleans. He squatted in a communal house, dumpster-dived, and made his best efforts to reject capitalism. After becoming disillusioned with the lifestyle, he left the south and began studying futurism. Shortly thereafter, he got into the world of NFTs. His most successful project reached a trading value of $1.5 million. More recently, he launched an alt-coin or a “shitcoin” that reached a market cap of $8 million. On this episode, he shares his perspective on AI, the future, and the human experience post-singularity. He’s a deep thinker has some bold predictions about the next few decades. Will people treat AI like gods? In a future without jobs, in what new ways will humans create identity? Should we try to “solve” death? Will people en masse implant chips in their brains? How will we create meaning in a post-labor future? All things we dive into in this episode... Show Links: Substack: http://simoneleon.substack.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@simone123621 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simone.leon/ Mentioned in this episode: Ancient Greek Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism Her (2013): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(2013_film) The Singularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity Fully Automated Luxury Communism: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/give-us-fully-automated-luxury-communism/592099/ Music and editing by Simon Linsteadt: https://www.simonvictorlinsteadt.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit simoneleon.substack.com

    1h 38m

  2. FEB 15

    Healing the Motherline | Sylvia Linsteadt | Episode 2

    Sylvia Victor Linsteadt is an author, a scholar of ancient history and myth, and a certified wildlife tracker. Her work - both fiction & non-fiction is rooted in myth, ecology, feminism, and bioregionalism. In our conversation we speak about matrilineal vs. patrilineal cultures, motherhood across time, female fertility the connection between greek gods, aliens, and us, the relationship between fiction and spirituality, and more… Show Links: Substack: http://simoneleon.substack.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@simone123621 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simone.leon/ Sylvia’s Links: Website: https://www.sylviavictorlinsteadt.com Substack: https://sylviavlinsteadt.substack.com When Women Were the Land Course: https://advaya.life/courses/when-women-were-the-land Mentioned in this episode: Scholar Heide Göttner-Abendroth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heide_Göttner-Abendroth Walden Two by B.F. Skinner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Two Anthropologist Chris Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Knight_(anthropologist) VC who wants to live forever Bryan Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Johnson Time Travel UFO Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-traveler_UFO_hypothesis Music and editing by Simon Linsteadt: https://www.simonvictorlinsteadt.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit simoneleon.substack.com

    1h 40m
  3. There are Two Worlds Within This One | Episode 1

    FEB 1

    There are Two Worlds Within This One | Episode 1

    Connecting the deep past with the imminent future through art, religion, and technology. Subscribe on simoneleon.substack.com or wherever you get your podcasts! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit simoneleon.substack.com

    11 min
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Meaning Making Machines connects the deep past with the imminent future through the search for the eternal, enduring, and essential. Join host Simone Leon as she discusses how we find and define meaning through art, religion, and technology. She'll be speaking to artists, technologists, technophobes, religious thinkers, and philosophers. Exploring the deep questions with a curious mind, and questioning everything. simoneleon.substack.com

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