Rufus Pollock – The Four Noble Truths of a Second Renaissance and the Metacrisis
We live in a moment of civilizational crisis and potential rebirth - what we could term a Second Renaissance. There are many terms associated with it: the great turning, metamodern, metacrisis, integral, teal, liminal web, GameB, regenerative and more. This talk sets out the “Second Renaissance” as a framing for a) the present historical period, b) a new cultural paradigm or paradigms starting to come into existence, and c) the growing network of people who are acting to steward and accelerate its development.
Humanizing the Humanoid: Biology in AI-Technology to handle its Frightful Phenomenology
Like any world-phenomenology, AI has an awesome and frightful aspect. Apprehending that the latter might cause a slow but permanent injury to the cognitive, emotional and psychomotor evolution of humanity, the paper brings out how by adding five further disruptive innovations from the use of biology in this humanoid, frightful aspect of humanoid AI could be deftly handled before it slips out of hands.
Bruce Greyson on Oprah: What Near Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
This episode of The Oprah Podcast features Dr. Bruce Greyson, one of the world's leading experts on near death experiences. As a scientist and physician, Dr. Greyson has been studying these fascinating phenomena for decades. He and Oprah dive deep into near death encounters and speak with people who have undergone their own transformative episodes, including Oscar nominated actor Jeremy Renner, who described his event as harrowing but also exhilaratingly peaceful.
Rufus Pollock – The Four Noble Truths of a Second Renaissance and the Metacrisis
We live in a moment of civilizational crisis and potential rebirth - what we could term a Second Renaissance. There are many terms associated with it: the great turning, metamodern, metacrisis, integral, teal, liminal web, GameB, regenerative and more. This talk sets out the “Second Renaissance” as a framing for a) the present historical period, b) a new cultural paradigm or paradigms starting to come into existence, and c) the growing network of people who are acting to steward and accelerate its development.
Humanizing the Humanoid: Biology in AI-Technology to handle its Frightful Phenomenology
Like any world-phenomenology, AI has an awesome and frightful aspect. Apprehending that the latter might cause a slow but permanent injury to the cognitive, emotional and psychomotor evolution of humanity, the paper brings out how by adding five further disruptive innovations from the use of biology in this humanoid, frightful aspect of humanoid AI could be deftly handled before it slips out of hands.
Bruce Greyson on Oprah: What Near Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
This episode of The Oprah Podcast features Dr. Bruce Greyson, one of the world's leading experts on near death experiences. As a scientist and physician, Dr. Greyson has been studying these fascinating phenomena for decades. He and Oprah dive deep into near death encounters and speak with people who have undergone their own transformative episodes, including Oscar nominated actor Jeremy Renner, who described his event as harrowing but also exhilaratingly peaceful.
Rufus Pollock – The Four Noble Truths of a Second Renaissance and the Metacrisis
We live in a moment of civilizational crisis and potential rebirth - what we could term a Second Renaissance. There are many terms associated with it: the great turning, metamodern, metacrisis, integral, teal, liminal web, GameB, regenerative and more. This talk sets out the “Second Renaissance” as a framing for a) the present historical period, b) a new cultural paradigm or paradigms starting to come into existence, and c) the growing network of people who are acting to steward and accelerate its development.
Humanizing the Humanoid: Biology in AI-Technology to handle its Frightful Phenomenology
Like any world-phenomenology, AI has an awesome and frightful aspect. Apprehending that the latter might cause a slow but permanent injury to the cognitive, emotional and psychomotor evolution of humanity, the paper brings out how by adding five further disruptive innovations from the use of biology in this humanoid, frightful aspect of humanoid AI could be deftly handled before it slips out of hands.
Bruce Greyson on Oprah: What Near Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond
This episode of The Oprah Podcast features Dr. Bruce Greyson, one of the world's leading experts on near death experiences. As a scientist and physician, Dr. Greyson has been studying these fascinating phenomena for decades. He and Oprah dive deep into near death encounters and speak with people who have undergone their own transformative episodes, including Oscar nominated actor Jeremy Renner, who described his event as harrowing but also exhilaratingly peaceful.
– Erwin Schrödinger
– Prof David Bohm
– Albert Einstein
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