Altered States Of Conversation

Welcoming members of the Voicecraft Network Jacob Kishere, Aspasia Karageorge, Tyler Hollett, Kyle Lawrence, Tom Lyons, Cam Duffy & Tim Adalin for a Culture Lab session on the topic of Real Violence: Israel, Palestine, Justice & Justification.

Relating to the tensions and paradoxes associated with change (evolution) and the eternal (perennial) in the context of lineage traditions, value, membranes, and the future of spirituality and religion.

Welcoming educator, futurist and philosopher Zak Stein, one part to the pseudonymous author David J. Temple, who has recently published the work First principles and first values: Forty-two propositions on cosmoerotic humanism, the meta-crisis, and the world to come.

Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e102-evolving-perennialism-true-authority-w/-zak-stein

Timestamps:

01:12 - Evolving Perennialism & The Perception of Value

12:20 - The Barred Absolute & The Emergence of Law

35:00 - The phenomenology of transgression & true authority

46:18 - Integration of Wisdom Traditions and Traditional Lineages

Dr. Zachary Stein was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education, and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. A widely sought after and award winning speaker, Zak is a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development.

Dr. Stein is the author of several books which can be found on his website @ https://www.zakstein.org/

An effort toward critical and generative relation with Forrest Landry’s thinking on the topic of Artificial Intelligence, existential risk, and the possibilities for meaningful response.

This was recorded for the Voicecraft Network's Humanity, Technology & Nature expedition, following a previous session engaging with Forrest’s Substrate Needs Convergence argument.

00:00 - Introduction

02:30 - Forrest Explains The Substrate Needs Convergence Argument

26:00 - The Need for Intuition, Instinct and Intellect To Inform Conscious Choice-Making

36:22 - Can There Be Empathy Between Machine Intelligence & Human Intelligence

49:46 - Intimacy, Intensity, The Mystical, And The Need For Spiritual Process

1:17:14 - Intention, Implication & Intensity

1:24:47 - Questions & Clarifying The Substrate Argument

1:40:10 - What Next?

This very special 100th Voicecraft episode welcomes members of the Voicecraft Network for a session to synthesise recent themes and questions explored at Voicecraft. Core to the dialogue are questions relating to the meaning of humanity, technology, cultural transformation, intimacy, and the future.

Hosted by Tom Lyons, featuring Dr Aspasia Karageorge, Kyle Lawrence, Jurnee Manu, and Tyler Hollett.

Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e100-processing-relational-philosophy-voicecraft-synthesis-session

Previous guests in this period include Alexander Bard, Dave Snowden, Cadell Last, Jamie Wheal, Matt Segall, Carl Hayden Smith, Elder Les Spencer, Indy Johar, Elder Les Spencer, O.G. Rose & Michel Bauwens.

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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

An exploration of human decision making and transformative social process in the context of evolution, emergence, complexity, religion, telos, the mystical, and more. Welcoming the creator of the Cynefin Framework and iconoclastic generalist thinker Dave Snowden in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

KEYWORDS:

humanity, technology, emergence, complexity, civilizational project, change processes, bottom-up approaches, distributed decision-making, energy gradients, management, leadership, cultural perspectives, narratives, evolution of science, spirituality, religion, globalization, internet, balance, reconciliation, messy coherence, commonality, humility, rituals, symbolism, community, unintended consequences, complexity, fractality, self-similarity, alignment, micro nudging, abstraction, context, culture, communication, trust, mystical

An exploration of what it means practically and metaphysically to participate in our evolving digital age, defined by the Swedish philosopher Alexander Bard as the paradigm of attentionalism.

What does it mean to participate in transformation? How can we respond in the context of emerging technological power?

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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/core-philosophy-for-the-digital-age-alexander-bard-in-dialogue-with-tim-adalin

Welcoming Dr Les Spencer in dialogue with generalist thinker Tyler Hollett in response to the theme of “Intentional Disruption”, part of the Cultural Shamanism expedition inside the Voicecraft Network which begins with a multi-part exploration of the question: “Why do things fall apart?”

This is the first hour of a multi hour conversation, with many more to follow. This is an opening and a gesture.

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Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e97-intentional-disruption

Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e97-intentional-disruption

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

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Dr Les Spencer

Les is a post-doctoral action researcher, international conference speaker, writing on inter-connecting between natural life world, social life world and global futures. Action research bridges biomimicry, links between geo-emotional, land topography; and social topography; and people sciences including forensic science, psychosocial disaster response (UN consulting), harm minimizing, community psychiatry, neuro-psychobiology, risk-sharing, consulting to global governance, peace studies, relational mediating and reconciliation ceremonies in post-conflict contexts; hermeneutics and futures studies, behavioural science, clinical sociology.

https://www.laceweb.org.au/ - “A vast library of wellness resources.”

Tyler Hollett

Tyler is a father of two, and researcher of whatever seems necessary to support the healthy formation of communities, online and offline. He has been instrumental in the development of several discord communities with members in the tens of thousands. He can be contacted at [email protected]

An exploration of humanity's relation to technology, evolution, and perennialism, through the lens of transhumanism and hyperhumanism.

Welcoming philosopher Cadell Last and hyperhuman theorist Carl Hayden Smith in dialogue with Tim Adalin.

This was a live podcast recording for the Voicecraft Network expedition into the relationship between humanity, technology and nature.

Learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ https://www.voicecraft.io

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Collaborate with Tim @ https://www.timadalin.xyz

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Cadell Last is a philosopher and founder of Philosophy Portal, with an interdisciplinary background in fields of evolutionary anthropology, psychoanalysis, complexity science, and big history.

Find Cadell Last's Philosophy Portal YouTube channel:  @PhilosophyPortal  & the Philosophy Portal website at: https://philosophyportal.online/

Carl Hayden Smith is Associate Professor of Media in the School of Arts & Creative Industries at UEL and is the former Head of Research and Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) at the Institute for Creativity & Technology, Ravensbourne University London.

Links through to Carl's work include: The Museum of Consciousness: https://www.themoc.org & The Cyberdelic Society: https://www.cyberdelicsociety.com

Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, people, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage.

This Voicecraft.Network invites relating with the cultural, philosophical, and attentional significance of Sam Harris, one of the most well known public intellectuals of at least the last 15 years.

In participation are Voicecraft members Dr. Aspasia Karageorge (Clinical Psychologist), Tim Adalin, Kyle Lawrence, Tyler H, and Tom Lyons.

Learn more about the participants in the show notes below.

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Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/sam-harris-the-man-the-meme-culture-lab

Clip of Zizek on Buddhism & Himmler: https://youtu.be/VWnngmzPtlQ

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

Is there legitimacy to the promise of crypto in the context of socio-economic exchange? Where are we in political economic history? How do psychology, narrative and metaphysics influence the integrity of communications technology and its mediation of exchange?

Welcoming civilisational and commons theorist Michel Bauwens and philosopher O.G. Rose, in dialogue with Tim Adalin and members of the Voicecraft Network.

This follows dialogues in the Commons Series, and particularly previous sessions on Value & Civilisation with Forrest Landry, O.G. Rose, and Michel Bauwens.

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Access the show notes for this podcast at @ https://www.voicecraft.io/content/e94-crypto-and-the-commons-w/-michel-bauwens-og-rose-tim-adalin-the-voicecraft-network

Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0