Latest Complex systems Podcast Episodes
🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.
FUTURE FOSSILS - April 15, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week marks the beginning of Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I., a six-week online course led by writer and teacher Joshua Schrei, host of The Emerald Podcast. This course is, in large part, inspired by an episode he wrote last year called “So You Want To Be A Sorcerer in The Age of Mythic ...
🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality
FUTURE FOSSILS - April 02, 2024 22:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsI’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. ...
💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet
FUTURE FOSSILS - March 06, 2024 23:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsIf you care about this show as a public good, consider signing up on Substack or Patreon today for bonus episodes, live calls, and more — or at least mash “subscribe” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave a five-star review. The unborn future archaeologists who find these episodes inscribed in...
🐦⬛🦖🕵🏼♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists
FUTURE FOSSILS - February 21, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week I speak with Jingmai O’Connor (Staff Page | Instagram), Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles (a.k.a. Priestess of Dead Dino-Birds) at The Field Museum in Chicago, about the magnificent strangeness of Mesozoic flying reptiles, the perverse anthropology of paleontologists, and much else....
🫂👩🏼💻🔍 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs
FUTURE FOSSILS - January 22, 2024 07:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week I speak with social scientist Nicholas Brigham Adams (Twitter, LinkedIn) about his work at Goodly Labs to create new infrastructure for collective intelligence — new systems for collective fact-checking and sense-making that can help us rise to the occasion of our inherently social, pl...
👁️🔄📀 214 - J.F. Martel, Phil Ford, & Megan Phipps on Weird Cybernetics: Waking Up From The Ecstasy
FUTURE FOSSILS - December 25, 2023 09:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratings✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you! Merry Christmas, Future Fossils! This is Michael Garfield welcoming you to episode 214 of the podcast that explores our place in time — and as demonstrated in the Dr. Who and Aliens franchises, Blade Runn...
🕸️⛩️💻 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance
FUTURE FOSSILS - December 01, 2023 20:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratings✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you! This week I speak with two of the most thoughtful people I know in tech, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case and systems engineer Michael Zargham (Founder & CEO of BlockScience) — who work together on tools f...
🌏🚜🫀212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphere
FUTURE FOSSILS - November 06, 2023 17:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsSubscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever! This week on the show I speak with physicist Geoffrey West (SFI) and evolutionary biologist Manfred Laubichler (ASU, SFI) about the transformations that our geosphere, biosphere, technosphere, and noosphere are undergoing as th...
💻🍄🧙🏼♂️ 211 - Adam Aronovich on A Cultural Anthropology for The Psychedelic Internet
FUTURE FOSSILS - October 31, 2023 18:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsSubscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever! This week on Future Fossils we pierce the veil with Adam Aronovich, cultural anthropologist and psychedelic integration therapist, to talk about the strange brew of web-connected healing and web-inflicted paranoia and delusions...
👁️🧠🎧 210 - Mitch Schultz & Shanta Stevens on Documenting The Next Psychedelic Revolution
FUTURE FOSSILS - October 02, 2023 20:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsSubscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever! This week I welcome back psychedelic film-maker and culture-cultivator Mitch Schultz, Director of the legendary documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule, alongside our mutual co-conspirator, experience design consultant and psyched...
🍄🎥👁️ 209 - Ken Adams on A Life of Psychedelic Film-Making & Collaboration with Terence McKenna
FUTURE FOSSILS - September 12, 2023 15:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week I have the joy of sharing a long-overdue discussion with legendary psychedelic media pioneer Ken Adams (Vimeo | LinkedIn), one of the first people I ever interviewed on record years before Future Fossils and whose influence on my own creative life cannot be overstated. Two of Ken’s mai...
👷🏽🌎🎊 208 - Building Cultural Capacity for A REAL Psychedelic Renaissance with Samantha Sweetwater, Ian-Michael Hebert, and Jahan Khamsehzadeh @ Psychedelic Science 2023
FUTURE FOSSILS - August 25, 2023 21:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com This week on the show I share a reading and panel discussion with three amazing psychedelic thought-leaders I facilitated as a satellite event during the MAPS 2023 Psychedelic Science Conference! Samantha...
🌊🏄🌱 207 - Tech & Community LIVE at Junkyard Social Club with Evan Snyder, Ryan Madson, Roger Toennis, Aaron Gabriel, & Juicy Life
FUTURE FOSSILS - August 10, 2023 23:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com This week I’m glad to share a special Future Fossils Live recorded at one of the coolest places I have ever seen, the Junkyard Social Club in Boulder, Colorado! It’s a menagerie of interesting brilliant we...
🤩🎻🤖 206 - Scout Rainer Wiley on AI vs. BS Jobs, The Return of Culture, and Eldritch Wonders in The Bright Apocalypse
FUTURE FOSSILS - July 27, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com ...about AI, art, culture, celebrity, identity, and trauma. Before we begin: I’m teaching a six-week online course on science, philosophy, economics, media, and dinosaurs! Join me at NuraLearning.com for ...
🎶⚔️👏🏼 205 - Greg Thomas & Stephanie Lepp on Jazz Leadership & Antagonistic Cooperation
FUTURE FOSSILS - July 12, 2023 23:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com Before we begin: I’m teaching a six-week online course on science, philosophy, economics, media, and dinosaurs! Join me at NuraLearning.com for Jurassic Worlding, a psychedelic deep dive into self-fulfilli...
💐📚🏛️ 204 - Jamie Joyce on The Society Library and Tools for Making Sense Together
FUTURE FOSSILS - June 19, 2023 20:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week we talk with Jamie Joyce of The Society Library! ✨ SOME References: An Oral History of The End of ‘Reality’ Regina Rini and the Epistemic Backstop Stephanie Lepp Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens Alison Gopnik The Hyperion Cantos The Internet Archive Ed Bernays ✨ Support Future Foss...
203 - Kevin Kelly on Excellent Advice for Living, Playing with AI, and Staying Curious
FUTURE FOSSILS - June 03, 2023 15:41 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsPardon the delay, as I’ve been gathering more conversations than I’ve shared. Future Fossils is about to go into the rapids with three amazing back-to-back episodes! The next will be with Jamie Joyce of The Society Library and then it’s Greg Thomas of The Jazz Leadership Project with producer/fu...
202 - Caveat Magister on Psychomagic, Amusement Parks, & Turning Your Life Into Art
FUTURE FOSSILS - May 03, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsIn this episode I welcome Caveat Magister, resident philosopher of Burning Man, to Future Fossils to discuss his latest book, Turn Your Life Into Art! We talk about transformational cross-country and urban adventures, psychomagic, and the difference between two kinds of experience design — one o...
201 - KMO & Kevin Wohlmut on our Blue Collar Black Mirror: Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Adventure Time, ChatGPT, & More
FUTURE FOSSILS - April 13, 2023 21:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week we talk about the intersections of large language models, the golden age of television and its storytelling mishaps, making one’s way through the weirding of the labor economy, and much more with two of my favorite Gen X science fiction aficionados, OG podcaster KMO and our mutual frie...
200 - Ehren Cruz & Daphne Krantz on Psychedelics, Addiction, and Transcendence
FUTURE FOSSILS - March 17, 2023 17:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsWelcome to episode two hundred of Future Fossils! On this episode, I'm joined by Ehren Cruz (LinkedIn, Instagram, Website) and Daphne Krantz (LinkedIn, Instagram, Website) to discuss transcendence, trauma, and transformation. We talk about the festival world, our individual journeys, the rise of...
199 - The Great Decoherence of Android Jones
FUTURE FOSSILS - February 24, 2023 18:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week I have one of the most vulnerable, personal, and profound conversations ever shared on the show — and it’s one that speaks directly to the deepest and most persistent themes addressed on Future Fossils. Android Jones is one of the world’s pre-eminent digital painters and an utterly sin...
198 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Aliens, Land Spirits, & The Singularity (Part 2)
FUTURE FOSSILS - February 06, 2023 16:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratings“We want to be careful when we’re in conflict on the internet.”– Tadaaki Hozumi Tadaaki Hozumi, member of Japan’s oldest surviving lineage of royal Shinto priests, is back for the second part of our three-hour conversation on animism in the ancient-future technological construct-wilderness of t...
197 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Lost Civilizations, and The Singularity (Part 1)
FUTURE FOSSILS - January 20, 2023 21:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week and next, we talk to returning guest Tadaaki Hozumi about the crossroads between the esoteric history of Japan and its Indigenous peoples and royal family; the mysterious convergence of ancient records from around the world on stories of lost civilizations and extraterrestrial encounte...
196 - Robert Poynton on Improvisation As A Way of Life
FUTURE FOSSILS - December 28, 2022 20:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsRate and review the show at Apple Podcasts Browse my newsletter, original art, prints, merchandise, etc. “Notice more. Let go. Use everything.” I’ve decided Future Fossils is going to double down on its commitment to helping people navigate uncharted waters by focusing explicitly on improvisa...
195 - A.I. Art: An Emergency Panel with Julian Picaza, Evo Heyning, Micah Daigle, Jamie Curcio, & Topher Sipes
FUTURE FOSSILS - December 12, 2022 21:14 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsComplete show notes at Patreon Rate and review the show at Apple Podcasts Browse my newsletter, original art, prints, merchandise, etc. ✨ About This Episode: This week we dig down as what W.J.T. Mitchell called “paleontologists of the present” to explore the ramifications of A.I. on the crea...
194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions
FUTURE FOSSILS - November 20, 2022 03:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsComplete, EXTENSIVE show notes at Patreon Rate and review the show at Apple Podcasts Browse my newsletter, original art, prints, merchandise, etc. How much of natural history is inevitable, and how much is the result of chance? Do mass extinctions slow the evolution of the biosphere, or speed...
193 - Kimberly Dill on Environmental Philosophy: In Defense of Wildness & Night
FUTURE FOSSILS - October 30, 2022 21:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week I talk with environmental philosopher and Santa Clara Clara Assistant Professor Kimberly Dill, an old friend of mine from Austin, Texas whom I met at Bouldin Creek Coffee over lemon maté sours and a deep dive into Eastern nondual traditions while she was in school studying arguments ag...
192 - My Cataract: An Initiation 👁✨
FUTURE FOSSILS - September 26, 2022 22:34 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsThis week I go solo and get reflective on age, noise, loss, mystery, stars and angels, dreams and seasons, modern science and the retrieval of magic... Read the ✨ EXTENSIVE ✨ show notes, and join the Future Fossils community, at Patreon. cataract (n.) early 15c., "a waterfall, floodgate, fu...
191 - Roland Harwood on Learning To Be Liminal
FUTURE FOSSILS - September 09, 2022 16:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsSubscribe wherever you dig podcasts Rate and review the show at Apple Podcasts Browse my newsletter, original art, prints, merchandise, NFTs, etc. Dig into the complete, extensive show notes (and join our online community) at Patreon This week on the show I chat with the storied, insightful,...
190 - Lauren Seyler on Dark Microbiology & Right Relations in Science
FUTURE FOSSILS - August 20, 2022 06:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 231 ratingsRate and review the show at Apple Podcasts Dig into the complete, extensive show notes at Patreon This week we’re joined by Lauren Seyler, Assistant Professor of Biology at Stockton University (Lab Website, Twitter @darkmicrobio, Google Scholar), who studies the microscopic living world that f...
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