Artificial Intelligence is not just the stuff of science fiction. It’s found all around us – from deciding what movie shows up next on your Netflix screen to determining if you are approved for a loan for your new house. And with AI integrated with more and more of our everyday lives, it also has […]
Today, we’re talking about two deep subjects – quantum entanglement and consciousness. If physics has taught us anything, it is that the world in which we live in is really weird. Just look at quantum physics. Schrödinger said – put in a cat in a box, and he could be alive and dead at the […]
If you lost a limb, would you use technology to help you regain some of your ability? What if you were deaf? Chances are, if technology could help you, you probably would jump at the opportunity. But how about taking it one step farther. What if technology could make you smarter than you already are? […]
The world you see is not really the world that exists. Your eyes and your brain are working together to “lie” to you all the time. But, they don’t do this with some evil vendetta in mind. In reality, they do it to make sense of the enormous amount of information flowing in from the […]
The newest seekers of immortality are on a radical quest: mind uploading. These people think that it may be possible to take all of the information locked within the folds of creases of their brains and upload it to the internet. Decoupled from their mortal bodies, they would be free forever. Free from suffering, free […]
Imagine that you have a mystical experience that changes your life. Perhaps you see the face of Jesus, Muhammad, or Buddha. Perhaps you feel the Universe pouring out love into your being. Or perhaps you just feel immense peace. Now imagine that this experience is actually the result of an epileptic seizure. This is the […]
No one knows what the future may hold. Or can they? Today on the podcast, we talk to Brian David Johnson, a futurist. Brian’s business is the future and predicting the future of technology. Weaving together a mix of ethnography, culture, trends, technology, and science, he helps businesses and enterprises forecast what the next decades […]
Are science and religion compatible? For some, the answer is a resounding yes! Others see nothing but conflict, especially, it seems, around evolution. Today, we talk about science, religion, and evolution, from the points of view of a Jewish rabbi, a Humanist chaplain, a Christian pastor, and a Buddhist sensei. We also talk about The […]
Millions of people worldwide are suffering from the brain diseases Alzheimer’s and dementia. These diseases take a toll not just on the patients, but also their loved ones. These spouses, children, and friends may be forgotten, left by themselves to question where this leaves their relationship. In some cases, they might even think that their […]
What is time? We may not fully understand it, but we do know this: time has some very odd qualities. Today, we discuss our current understanding the philosophy of time. So what makes time so strange? It’s not like the other dimensions. It only flows in one direction. We can go forward into the future, but […]