Futurism Archives – Integral Life

The Edge of the Future: Education, Civilization, and the Metacrisis

Zach Stein — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:32:21 +0000

Educator, author, philosopher, and futurist Zachary Stein gives a startling account of the effects the digital age already has on education and where this is headed. Zak sees education in a deeply philosophical sense as fundamental to the sustainability of our civilization, with implications for each component of the metacrisis. Who will be driving the technology stack that actually leads to a viable civilization? Can we maintain our psychological sovereignty in a sea of digital propaganda and know the truth?

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Putting the “Art” in Artificial Intelligence

Ken Wilber — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 02:02:52 +0000

What is art, at its most fundamental level? This is one of those perennial questions that we have been asking and re-asking at every stage of the human journey, from the first cave drawings all the way to the emergence of sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms like MidJourney that are once again blurring the lines between art, beauty, and perspective and forcing us to find new ways to answer this timeless question. Watch as Ken and Corey take a fun and fascinating look at the intersection between art, semiotics, and technology.

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Sitting in the Mystery: Aliens, Artists, and the Experiencer Group

Stuart Davis — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:22:13 +0000

Belief in UFOs and alien contact continues to find more and more legitimacy. In this fun and fascinating discussion, Stuart and Corey take a deep dive into these cosmic mysteries, exploring the many ways the Integral framework helps us illuminate and interpret the full enchilada of human (and non-human) experience, from the ordinary to the extraordinary to the extra-extraordinary.

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The Transformation Age: America Burning

Robb Smith — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:33:00 +0000

America has been on fire these past few weeks. A nation struggling with its racist past, its contemporary racial shadow, its deep political and cultural polarization, and a divisive president who will never be capable of leading a nation, we continue to find ourselves in the heart of The Great Release (and this time, not from an economic depression or disease pandemic, but from our deep and terrible racist heritage). In this brief article, I want to use a few lenses of integral metatheory—concepts you’ll be familiar with, but applied in ways you’ve never seen before—to see if we can get a broader view of what’s happening.

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Deeper Into the Great Release

Robb Smith — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:41:00 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen, the Great Release is truly and fully underway. That earthquake has now begun. Nanoscopically small and quietly transmissible, Covid-19 would be almost laughable as a catalyst for the great release if it weren’t so deadly. But as it stands, it is in fact the perfect spark to alight the ample tinder of total system irresilience.

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Integral Preparation for a Time of Rapid Social Change

Robb Smith — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 06:20:06 +0000

A lifetime of practice has prepared integral people to carry the world through the trying and rapidly-changing times we are entering.

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Kosmos: An Integral Voyage

Ken Wilber — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:52:52 +0000

Ken Wilber and Corey deVos ponder the evolutionary mysteries of the universe, speculating on how abundant life might be in the kosmos, why we haven’t met any of our galactic neighbors yet, and what might happen if a UFO landed on the White House lawn. It’s a fun conversation — and one that takes its subject matter more seriously than you might expect. Whether you are a true believer of UFO phenomena or an iron-clad skeptic, you don’t want to miss this fascinating and far-reaching exploration.

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Virtual Lucid Dreaming: The Intersection of Consciousness and Technology

Andrew Holecek — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 22:00:57 +0000

Andrew Holecek explores the fascinating and fruitful vanguard of consciousness and technology in this stunning presentation about virtual reality, lucid dreaming, and awakening in the midst of rapid social change.

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Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Consciousness

Michael E. Zimmerman — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 02:00:54 +0000

The hopes and fears surrounding the advent of artificial intelligence are fantastical, from Ray Kurzweil's promise of spiritual machines to Elon Musk's warnings of killer robots. And yes, some version of that future is barreling toward us at an ever-increasing speed, says philosophy of technology professor Michael Zimmerman, who is Jeff's guest today.

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Loving AIs: Bringing Unconditional Love to Artificial General Intelligence

Julia Mossbridge — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:23:40 +0000

As part of our work on the Innovation Lab advisory board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, I had the pleasure of sitting down with OpenCog founder and leading AGI researcher Ben Goertzel and IONS Innovation Lab director Julia Mossbridge to discuss LOVING AIs, a project aiming to design and develop an “unconditional loving” module for AGIs. In this interview, I dive into the rabbit hole of AGI with Ben and Julia to discuss the state of the field, what it would mean to program unconditional love into AGIs, and some thorny implications for the brave new world we’re entering.

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