In this episode, Justin and his special guest discuss the Stoned-Ape Hypothesis, the origin of art, and the role mushrooms have played in our cognitive development.

In this episode join Justin and his Dad as they discuss masculinity as a concept and their own ideas surrounding manhood.

In this episode join Justin and Alan Watts as they take a deep dive into the origins of the Big Five world religions as well as the history and significance of the Axial Age to the development of modern spiritual ideologies.

In this episode, Justin discusses his own theories on the nature of consciousness, the soul, and the origins of thought itself.

In this episode Justin discusses the true potential of artificial intelligence and what a future of self-aware machines will mean for humanity.

Credits:

https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html

https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium-and-the-7th-kingdom-of-life

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/10/04/the-magic-of-smart-mirrors-artificial-intelligence-augmented-reality-and-the-internet-of-things/#350adf79615b

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310610871_Using_Inspiration_from_Synaptic_Plasticity_Rules_to_Optimize_Traffic_Flow_in_Distributed_Engineered_Network

In the inaugural episode of Cosmic Conversations, host Justin Marquez discusses the nature of reality and the linguistic concept of nothing.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/01/31/the-four-scientific-meanings-of-nothing/#2dc6593c1a5f

https://www.livescience.com/28132-what-is-nothing-physicists-debate.html

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-say-they-ve-managed-to-manipulate-pure-nothingness