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Thinking On Paper is a weekly podcast on AI, quantum computing, and the future of technology. Hosts Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson talk with CEOs, scientists, and cultural thinkers about how tech is redefining work, culture, and humanity. The focus: big ideas, hard questions, and what staying human means in the age of machines. Thursdays feature long-form interviews; Mondays, the Book Club breaks down essential books like Quantum Supremacy, Nexus and Irreducible. Clear, curious, and critical. Listen now.

  1. The Physics of Free Will: Federico Faggin on Irreducible, Consciousness, and Choice | Book Club, Chapter 12

    4D AGO

    The Physics of Free Will: Federico Faggin on Irreducible, Consciousness, and Choice | Book Club, Chapter 12

    Hold on to your consciousness. In Chapter 12 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin battles classical assumptions: probability, the block universe and maths don't exist. The universe is conscious, your consciousness is made of seities, conscious units that report back to the quantum field (what Faggin calls 'The One') so that it can know itself. That is the meaning of the universe. Yes disruptors and curious minds, book club has taken a turn for the absurd, and we love it. In this episode: - Mark tries to understand Federico's claim that you’re not an observer but an actor in a conscious universe. -Jeremy looks at the role of live information; and whether AI creativity is simulation or emulation. -And of course, they both wrestle with the seities, the conscious units that the ONE uses to know itself. Along the way: “becoming,” fine-tuned constants, flow state, and why omniscience would end consciousness all get brought out. To be honest, it's probably - in as much as probabilities exist - beyond our pay grade. But do you know what? We've never had so much fun. Please enjoy the show. -- Chapters (00:00) Why consciousness vs physics matters (02:15) “Becoming”: a universe that’s still unfolding (03:03) What “live information” really means (05:51) Probability isn't real (07:43) Creativity & AI: making vs. remixing (09:24) Meaning vs. syntax: why symbols alone aren’t enough (17:13) Are you an Observer or actor? Your role in quantum reality (21:55) Reverse engineering anxiety and happiness (27:09) Flow state: the texture of the present (31:05) Simulated minds vs. emulated minds (32:12) Consider our minds blown. -- Follow and support Thinking On Paper: PODCAST: https://www.thinkingonpaper.xyz/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/ -- Thank you. And we love you.

    36 min
  2. Laila: AI Customer Service That Feels Human | Momntum CEO, Brian Kenny Outlines A Radical Future | Will AI Steal Your Kids' Creativity?

    6D AGO

    Laila: AI Customer Service That Feels Human | Momntum CEO, Brian Kenny Outlines A Radical Future | Will AI Steal Your Kids' Creativity?

    20 million customer service jobs are at risk. Companies that get this wrong face churn, costs, and lost trust. But MOMNTUM’s AI agent Laila is showing what’s possible: 86% of cases resolved without handoff and early signals of 4,000% ROI. In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Brian Kenny, MOMNTUM’s co-founder, explains why today’s support systems are broken — and how building from first principles with AI can actually make customer service feel human again. You'll Learn: - Why slapping bots on old workflows makes service worse - How Laila spans phone, SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, and Messenger - Where AI can be trusted now and where it shouldn’t be - What metrics really matter (hint: it’s not CSAT) - The new rules of trust, disclosure, and human escalation Customer service doesn’t have to be hated. With the right design, it can work for both businesses and customers.  Please enjoy the show.  -- CHAPTERS (00:00) Why customer service is broken (03:30) What a modern support platform should look like (06:35) Using AI to make service feel personal (09:29) The data + privacy question (11:26) The only success metrics that really matter (15:09) Can machines create an emotional connection? (18:16) The real limits of today’s systems (and what Laila can’t do yet) (22:39) Where customer experience is headed next (34:22) What should humans be? -- Follow and support Thinking On Paper: PODCAST: www.thinkingonpaper.xyz INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/ X: https://x.com/thinkonpaperpod Learn more on Momntum and Laila: https://momntum.com/ -- Thank you. We love you. Stay peaceful.

    38 min
  3. Space Based Solar Power: Politics, Data Centers, and the Global Race for Energy | Martin Soltau, Space Solar CEO & Founder

    JUL 15

    Space Based Solar Power: Politics, Data Centers, and the Global Race for Energy | Martin Soltau, Space Solar CEO & Founder

    Space Solar has a revolutionary vision to enable Net Zero and global energy security with Space-Based Solar Power. An 80 × 80 m satellite in low-Earth orbit, continuously exporting one megawatt of electricity to a ground station, is not science fiction. According to Martin Soltau, co-CEO of Space Solar, that first-of-its-kind demonstrator will fly within five years. In this conversation Mark and Jeremy Think On Paper about the engineering reality and the policy headaches behind space-based solar power (SBSP): Cassiopeia’s solar array converts sunlight to 5.8 GHz microwaves at up to 85 % efficiency The down-link beam peaks at ≈230 W m⁻², less than a quarter of midday sunlight, so it warms rather than cooks anything it touches. A rectenna two-to-three-kilometres wide re-converts the RF to DC with ≥ 85 % efficiency delivering “plug-ready” power around the clock. Today’s launch prices already model to 90 % of U.S. electricity this century. Off-grid rectennas over a server farm could bypass decade-long grid-connection queues. Failure modes worth losing sleep over Beam divergence, spectrum crowding, orbital debris and the inevitable “Death-Star” headlines—all solvable, but only with transparent public engagement. A Royal Society survey found strong public support once safety was explained. Soltau also outlines the mid-2030s scale-up to tens of gigawatts per year and why modular, robot-assembled satellites could deliver that pace faster than any terrestrial baseload technology. Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. -- Learn More: https://www.spacesolar.co.uk/ --  Timestamps  (00:00) Disruptors And Curious Minds  (01:34) Space Based Solar Satellites  (05:10) The Ground Infrastructure  (07:37) SBSP V Nuclear, Coal & Gas  (12:05) Launch Costs  (13:55) Data Centers In Space  (15:36) Scaling Space Based Solar Power  (18:08) Manufacturing In Space  (20:25) The Eisenhower Of SBSP  (23:10) The Politics Of Space Based Solar Power  (28:35) Energy Is Everything  (31:05) The Government Perspective  -- Follow and Support Thinking On Paper: PODCAST: www.thinkingonpaper.xyz INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/ X: https://x.com/thinkonpaperpod

    36 min
  4. Dario Amodei: AI Utopia in 5 Years, or the End of Human Control? | Machines of Loving Grace | AI Safety, AGI & Consciousness

    JUL 8

    Dario Amodei: AI Utopia in 5 Years, or the End of Human Control? | Machines of Loving Grace | AI Safety, AGI & Consciousness

    Jeremy and Mark dissect Dario Amodei’s essay Machines of Loving Grace. Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic and predicts - if all goes right - an AI utopia where most physical and mental diseases are a memory, wealth and development is evenly distributed across the world, AI has not been hijacked by dictators and all the world's a beautiful stage. The hook? This could happen in five to ten years. Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. -- Read the essay: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace#fn:1 -- Follow and Support Thinking On Paper 🎙️PODCAST: www.thinkingonpaper.xyz 📸 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/ X: https://x.com/thinkonpaperpod -- Chapters (00:00) Machines Of Loving Grace (02:46) Dario Amodei's Definition Of Powerful AI (05:11) Speed Of The Outside World (07:24) Complexity (11:27) List Of Diseases AI Will Cure (13:46) Neuroscience And Mind (15:45) AI For Everyone? (21:33) Peace And Government (25:03) Work And Meaning (31:56) What's Meaningful? (34:27) Taking Stock -- Connect the dots of AI, quantum and emerging technology and watch these videos next:

    38 min
  5. Federico Faggin: Is the Universe Created by Conscious Selves? | Irreducible Book Club - Chapter 10 | Consciousness, Free Will & AI

    JUL 3

    Federico Faggin: Is the Universe Created by Conscious Selves? | Irreducible Book Club - Chapter 10 | Consciousness, Free Will & AI

    In Chapter 10 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin, Mark and Jeremy Think on Paper about the real architecture behind consciousness: The Seity. Quantum gremlins, seities want only to know. To know themselves and help the universe - The One - know itself. And the seities have been here from the beginning, because they are everything. Reality is a construction of seities and Good news ladies and gentlemen, Death isn't the end! Your consciousness lives on for eternity. Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. -- Follow and support us please: 🎙️PODCAST: www.thinkingonpaper.xyz📷 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/ — Chapters (00:00) Federico Faggin, Irreducible Chapter 10 (02:10) Computers And Consciousness (03:31) Seities All The Way Down (10:25) Carl Jung Collective Consciousness (12:02) Quantum Freud (15:21) Robots, AI And Seities — Watch the book club on YouTube where you can get a chapter by chapter breakdown of Irreducible by Federico Faggin: https://www.youtube.com/@thinkingonpaper/videos

    19 min
  6. The Universe and the Meaning of Life | Federico Faggin, Irreducible Book Club - Chapter 9 | Consciousness, AI & Free Will

    JUL 1

    The Universe and the Meaning of Life | Federico Faggin, Irreducible Book Club - Chapter 9 | Consciousness, AI & Free Will

    Consciousness, life and free will exist from the very beginning as properties of the holistic whole (The One). According to Federico Faggin, the inanimate universe didn't come first, but derives from a deeper quantum reality inhabited by seities with consciousness and free will that communicate meaning with each other. In this week's Thinking on Paper Book Club, Mark and Jeremy read Chapter 9 of Irreducible by Federico Faggin and try to understand the meaning of life, the universe and everything in it.Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. — 🎙️ Podcast: thinkingonpaper.xyz 📷 Instagram: @thinkingonpaperpodcast 📕 Book: Irreducible by Federico Faggin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195480862 — Chapters (00:00) Chapter 9 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin (02:36) The Absurdity Of Classical Laws (04:26) Hilbert Space For Dummies (07:00) What Are Seities? (08:54) Science, Religion And Spirituality (11:46) Seities, Consciousness And Aliens (13:04) Conscious Units And How The Universe Understands (15:30) Are Seities Souls? (16:11) Seities And How You Have Life After Death — Key Takeaways Consciousness is not emergent. It’s fundamental Seities are conscious units inside a knowing universe Hilbert space may be the structure of inner reality Spirituality isn't narrative. It's architecture Growth is life. Stasis is death

    22 min
  7. Zen, Consciousness, and the Future of AI | Ram Srinivasan - The Conscious Machine, Future of Work & AGI

    JUN 25

    Zen, Consciousness, and the Future of AI | Ram Srinivasan - The Conscious Machine, Future of Work & AGI

    Can AI ever be aware? Can it be conscious, and if so, what would that mean for business and the future of work? In this week's show, Jeremy and Mark sit down with Ram Srinivasan, author of The Conscious Machine: From Artificial to Enlightened Intelligence, to think on paper about consciousness, Advaita Vedanta, panpsychism and why Eastern philosophy changes how we design every AI system. It might be the most important podcast on AI you listen to today. Rethinking work in an exponential age Linear mindsets can’t keep pace with automation. We explore how to direct AI toward human flourishing, not just efficiency.Trust as the new currency From autonomous agents to AI-native organizations, credibility, values and wisdom are the foundations of any lasting advantage. Please enjoy the show. And share it with a curious friend. -- Links & Resources Ram Srinivasan: https://www.ram-srinivasan.com/ The Conscious Machine: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4R9NJ53 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramsrinivasanmit/ Follow Thinking on Paper Podcast: www.thinkingonpaper.xyz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/ X: https://x.com/thinkonpaperpod -- Timestamps (00:00) Exploring the Future of Work and AI (00:53) The Intersection of Consciousness and Technology (03:44) Advaita Vedanta: Understanding Consciousness (06:40) Materialism vs. Non-Dualism in AI (14:25) The Shift from Knowledge to Wisdom (16:29) Post-Labor Economics and AI’s Role (19:01) Building Trust in AI Agents (21:46) The Currency of Trust in Business (26:35) The AI-Native Workplace: A New Era (30:37) Navigating Trust and Critical Thinking in AI (33:16) Human-Centric Technology: The Future of Work (35:33) What Should Humans Be? -- Watch Next Kevin Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awZ5LRX8o6o&ab_channel=ThinkingOnPaper

    37 min
  8. AI Compute: The Next Trillion-Dollar Asset Class | Kony, GAIB | GPUs, Crypto, Blockchain & DeFi

    JUN 20

    AI Compute: The Next Trillion-Dollar Asset Class | Kony, GAIB | GPUs, Crypto, Blockchain & DeFi

    Kony Kwong, CEO and Founder of GAIB joins Mark and Jeremy to Think On Paper about GPU backed stablecoins and investing in AI infrastructure. GAIB turns GPU clusters into yield machines. Real hardware. Real cash flow. Real contracts. You don’t need deep pockets. You need guts and a wallet.Top-shelf AI chips don’t go to market. They go straight to the vaults of Amazon, Google, Microsoft. Billion-dollar pre-orders. Closed systems. No ownership. No access. Just press releases and a rising stock price you’re supposed to cheer for.Inside this episode: How GAIB wraps racks of H100s into smart contracts that spit out incomeWhat it takes to audit a global data center rental pool with chain-native transparencyWhy the next trillion-dollar asset class isn’t crypto, and it isn’t AI. It’s computeWhat Big Tech doesn’t want you to see: that retail capital can actually own the pipesHow GAIB secured $400 million worth of live GPUs and opened the gatesAnd yes — the risks. Depreciation. Defaults. Regulatory smoke. We get into it.This isn’t a stock tip. This is a blueprint for taking part in the AI revolution without playing someone else’s game.Own the compute. Collect the yield. Or keep applauding from the cheap seats.Please enjoy the show. And share with an AI friend. -- Links and resources GAIB: ⁠https://gaib.ai/⁠ Kony: ⁠https://x.com/konyk001⁠ -- Follow Thinking On Paper 🎙️PODCAST: ⁠www.thinkingonpaper.xyz⁠ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/⁠⁠ X: https://x.com/thinkonpaperpod⁠ --  Chapters (00:00) Intro: Why Compute Is the Next Currency (01:30) From GPUs to Blockchain: GAIB’s Origin Story (04:05) The $7 Trillion Problem: Inside GAIB (06:38) Funding Data-Centres Fast: GAIB’s Capital Playbook (09:17) Cloud vs Data-Centre: Who Really Owns the GPUs? (11:07) Why Local GPU Hubs Beat Latency (13:50) Scaling Safely: Token Standards for Compute Financing (17:35) Pricing an H200: Turning GPUs into Cash-Flow Assets (21:50) AID Token Explained: The ‘Mutual Fund’ of Compute Yield (23:07) Global GPU Partners: First NVIDIA-Approved Clouds in Asia & Beyond (27:02) Will AI Kill Work or Create It? (32:49) What should humans be?

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Thinking On Paper is a weekly podcast on AI, quantum computing, and the future of technology. Hosts Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson talk with CEOs, scientists, and cultural thinkers about how tech is redefining work, culture, and humanity. The focus: big ideas, hard questions, and what staying human means in the age of machines. Thursdays feature long-form interviews; Mondays, the Book Club breaks down essential books like Quantum Supremacy, Nexus and Irreducible. Clear, curious, and critical. Listen now.

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