Turing Church podcast

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation between Giulio Prisco and co-host Derik Schwalen on Elon Musk and his recent biography by Walter Isaacson . Summary: we unrepentantly, unapologetically praise Elon Musk for his relentless effort to make humanity multi-planetary and develop enabling technology along the way. We realize that, of course, he can only be a flawed person like e...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation between Giulio Prisco and Stellar Magnet. We start with UFOs/UAPs. See “ ET, please come and teach us irrational mechanics. And may UAPs save our culture from terminal boredom and senility .” Perhaps UFOs/UAPs are operated by aliens, time travelers, visitors from other planes of reality? Or something like that? Then we discuss all sorts o...

Here’s my good friend Stellar Magnet, a space traveler on a quest to change this planet and the black sky around it. She has joined me as a co-host of the Turing Church podcast . We recorded this episode from Discord using Craig , a voice channel recording bot for Discord. For redundancy, we also used Giarc , a backup clone of Craig running on a separate server in a different part of the world. We...

I produced this short Turing Church podcast episode to test an iPhone app for audio recording and editing . The free version of WavePad is annoying because it keeps asking to buy the full version. I guess I’ll buy the full version if I’m happy after a couple more tests. Since I’m very often away from my main computer I need a way to produce podcast episodes using only the iPhone/iPad. Contentwise,...

I recorded this episode of the Turing Church podcast from Discord using Craig , a voice channel recording bot for Discord. For redundancy, I also used Giarc , a backup clone of Craig running on a separate server in a different part of the world. This was the first time I tested this procedure using my iPad. The test was successful, and I’m pleased with the result. The audio is crisp and clear. I s...

The video recording of this conversation is published in this website and YouTube . Two weeks ago I participated in a webinar with Frank White , produced by the Moon Village Association (MVA). Frank coined the term “ Overview Effect ” to describe the powerful mind-changing and life-changing impact of seeing the Earth from space, and wrote a series of books starting with the seminal and very influe...

This is a conversation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantum physics, consciousness, and free will, recorded at a Turing Church meeting on April 1. I was joined by James Driessen. The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is calling to pause Artificial Intelligence (AI) research . The letter has been signed by many top thinkers including Elon Musk. Eliezer Yudkowsky is persuaded that pausing AI develo...

I’m recovering from the loss of my sweet little doggy Ricky, and I’m not in the mood to write or speak much. But in December 2016, after losing my other sweet little doggy Sacha, I was interviewed by Bob Wright , the author of many books including “ The Evolution of God ” (2009) and “ Why Buddhism is True ” (2017). Ricky was in my lap during the interview. We discussed my hope to be with Sacha aga...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast was recorded at a Turing Church meeting on March 4, 2023. We discussed science fiction, Russian Cosmism, spaceflight (e.g should Elon Musk move to China?), and much more. I host regular Turing Church meetings , via Zoom, usually on the first Saturday of every month, at 11am ET (8am PT, 5pm CET). This is convenient for me and should be convenient for people...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation with Inara Tabir (aka GalaxisGal ) on the intersections of transgender issues, transhumanism, and space expansion. The video is published in turingchurch.com and YouTube . I met Inara recently at a Terasem gathering and I found it intriguing that she is both a transgender activist and a space expansion activist. And she is a transhumanist...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation on “ Three-Body ” - a TV series produced by Tencent Video, based on Cixin Liu ’s science fiction masterpiece “ The Three-Body Problem .” See my review of the first 12 episodes. See also this recent review by The New York Times ( unpaywalled copy ). The video is published in turingchurch.com and YouTube . I think “ Three-Body ” - the novel...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation with Emily Adlam , the author of a book titled “ Foundations of Quantum Mechanics ” and many insightful papers. The video is published in this website and YouTube . A conventional local definition of determinism is that the future is determined by the present with causal influences limited by the speed of light, which take time to propaga...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation with Heinrich Päs , the author of “ The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics ,” to be published next week. See my book review . His previous book “ The Perfect Wave: With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time ” was published in 2014. The video is published in this website and YouTube . These are the questions I had p...

Derik Schwalen joined me for an open Turing Church meeting on Saturday, January 7. We discussed many interesting things including time travel, the grandfather and information “paradoxes” of time travel, self-consistent time loops, multiple worlds, Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments like ChatGPT and Midjourney , quantum archaeology, religion, and of course science fiction. The video is publi...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation with Bobby Azarian , the author of “ The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity ” (2022). See my review of Bobby’s book . Bobby produces the Substack newsletter “ Road to Omega .” We were joined by Terry Bristol , the author of “ Give Space My Love: An Intellectual Odysse...

I hosted an open Turing Church meeting on Saturday, November 19, via Zoom. I gave a talk on “More things in heaven and earth, Gods by any other name,” followed by a Q/A. I gave this talk at the TransVision 2019 conference in London, but the conference was not recorded. The video is published in turingchurch.com and YouTube . Here is the slide presentation I used . Future meetings will be announced...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation with my old friend Khannea Suntzu, best known as a transgender transhumanist, and filmmaker Brian den Hartog . The video is published on this website and on YouTube . From Brian’s website : “His films are born from a documentary origin: A character, phenomena or event that triggers him to explore. From there he starts his research which h...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation with Rizwan Virk , the author of “ The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game ” (2019, see my review ) and “ The Simulated Multiverse: An MIT Computer Scientist Explores Parallel Universes, The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Computing and the Mand...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation with philosopher Eric Steinhart . The video is published on this website and on YouTube . Eric Steinhart is one of my favorite philosophers. See my review of his last book “ Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism ” (2020). The spiritual atheism of Steinhart (I prefer to call it spiritual naturalism) is very close to my religion,...

This episode of the Turing Church podcast is a conversation with Howard Bloom . I should introduce Howard, but there would be too much to say. I’ll just say that Howard is one of the greatest thinkers of today. Just google him and take a look at his website howardbloom.net . The video of this conversation is also published. I planned to focus this conversation on spaceflight and human space expans...

In the last two episodes of this podcast I shared my last conversation (two parts) with Cometan , the founder of Astronism . Here I’m sharing (with permission) the audio of my very first conversation with Cometan in February 2021 We discussed spaceflight, metaphysics, religion, and our cosmic destiny. Here’s Cometan’s summary : “Ending Season 1 of ‘A Conversation with Cometan’ is Italian cosmist a...

In last week’s Turing Church podcast episode I shared the first part of my last conversation with Cometan , the founder of Astronism . Cometan says : “Giulio Prisco returns to A Conversation with Cometan for Season 3. The transhumanist and cosmist thinker sits down with Cometan once again for a fascinating deep dive into the concept of a cosmic anastasis, or a far-future resurrection of our human...

I had a long Zoom conversation with Cometan , the founder of Astronism . Here’s the video . Cometan says : “Giulio Prisco returns to A Conversation with Cometan for Season 3. The transhumanist and cosmist thinker sits down with Cometan once again for a fascinating deep dive into the concept of a cosmic anastasis, or a far-future resurrection of our human ancestors as one of the many rewards of hum...

In June 2020 I was interviewed by Agah Bahari for the NEOHUMAN show . We discussed a lot of things in one hour, including religion, transhumanism, spaceflight, physics, mathematics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and of course Turing Church and my book “ Tales of the Turing Church .” Follow Agah on Twitter, where he goes by @Agologist , and watch the NEOHUMAN videos on YouTube . Here’s the...

On February 2 I gave a talk on the spiritual aspects of spaceflight at the first event , or “ inaugural digital experience ,” organized by Black Sky , a new collective “on a mission to minimize dystopia and maximize harmony with the cosmos.” My talk was mostly derived from my book “ Futurist spaceflight meditations .” Now that Substack supports video, I have also posted the video of the talk here...