I’m honored to share a profound and soulful conversation on science and spirituality with Neil Theise, professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, discoverer of a new human organ (the interstitium), lifelong Zen meditator, and author of the superb book, Notes on Complexity.
✨ Mentioned & Related Links:
Embodied Ethics in The Age of AI
Complexity, Culture & Consciousness - a Minds.com panel discussion with Neil Theise, Erik Davis, Michael Garfield, Richard Doyle, and Mitch Mignano hosted by Bill Ottman
The Golden Oecumene (trilogy)
by John C. Wright
The End of Burnout
by Jonathan Malesic
Tom Morgan - What Is Important?
Divining The World with Joshua Ramey - Weird Studies 22
Darwin’s Pharmacy
by Richard Doyle
Science and Nonduality Conference
Jane Prophet & Gordon Selley - Technosphere (1, 2, 3)
”The King Is Dead, Long Live The King: Festivals, Science, & Economies of Scale”
by Michael Garfield
The New Yorker on Cormac McCarthy & Mathematical Platonism
”Multiverses, Nihilism, and How it Feels to be Alive Right Now”
by Like Stories of Old
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
by Roger Lewin
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
by Steven Johnson
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✨ Related FF Episodes:
14 - WESTWORLD Problems (feat. Michael Phillip of Third Eye Drops)
42 - William Irwin Thompson, Part 1 (Thinking Together at the Edge of History)
65 - John David Ebert (Hypermodernity & Blade Runner 2049)
125 - Stuart Kauffman on Physics, Life, and The Adjacent Possible
172 - Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Systems Thinking, Fractal Governance, Ontopunk, and Queering W.E.I.R.D. Modernity
176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summit
194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions
212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphere
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