Seeing Clearly

Factory farming is humanity’s greatest sin. In this episode I speak with Itsi Weinstock, an animal welfare advocate at Senterra Funders. We talk about what’s really going on in factory farming, why it matters, and what you can do to help. 2:14 — Moral realism 4:41 — Itsi’s work 6:20 — Factory farming 12:07 — Value lock in from AGI 13:09 — How feasible is fighting economic forces? 14:18 — Legal cha...

Watch UNRAVELING THE DREAM: Jake’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@FrameProblems Jake’s X: https://x.com/jakeorthwein 1:08 — Origin of the film 4:00 — Bayesian brain, predictive processing, free energy principle 13:53 — Direct experience vs. symbolic thinking 25:46 — Buddhism and identity 30:38 — Emptiness vs metaphysics 39:17 — Is suffering all that matters? Meaning and Buddhist utilitarianism...

Dr. Ogi Ogas is a mathematical neuroscientist and, in his own words, a prophet. This is our conversation on God and consciousness. 1:44 — Who or what is God? 17:06 — Mind vs. matter, purpose vs. physics 27:05 — What does God want? 29:15 — Darwinism applied to super organism 31:06 — Fractal reality, hyper minds  36:40 — Moral intuition and psychological/spiritual development 48:56 — The ladder of p...

In this episode we talk with Moral Law Within about God, secular morality, moral realism, reasons, intuitions, Kantian ethics, and more. Florence Bacus is a PhD student at Harvard studying Kantian ethics. 1:49 — God and religion 5:39 — What is truth? 8:15 — Morality without God 10:39 — Obligation 11:50 — Reasons 20:05 — Morality grounded in consciousness (Valence realism) 27:33 — Morality without...

Leona is a consciousness researcher, a practitioner of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra and the Cofounder of The House of Hyperstition ( hyperstitio.us ). This was an enlivening conversation that only got better as the time flew by. We cover several fascinating topics earmarked below. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did participating in it. 1:06 — Embodied decision making, non-doing 35:36 —...

1:24 — Live music 3:33 — Predictive processing and normativity 17:41 — Identity 22:07 — Emotions as an error signal 24:40 — Is/ought gap 27:50 — Abstraction, conceptual scaffolding, pragmatism 31:47 — Morphic field, civilizational development 38:37 — Coordination as a coordination mechanism 43:14 — The Kingdom of God, moral convergence 45:06 — Superorganisms, coordination, and utility functions 47...

Richard Bartlett (@RichDecibles) is a community organizer and Vibe Mechanic at Casa Tilo. In this episode we discuss rebuilding a high trust society, bottom-up coordination, super organisms, purpose, personal development, Casa Tilo and more. 1:08 — Rebuilding a high trust society 5:45 — Bottom-up coordination, village life 7:56 — Microsolidarity as social physics 10:00 — Taxonomy of superorganisms...