This is a conversation about the nature of value, wealth and exchange in consideration of the paradigm shifting digital communications platforms we’re almost all inexorably tied to. It begins with my asking Matthew how he thinks about the nature of thinking itself, and also about what matters in life.

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Matthew Pirkowski is a philosopher with keen insight into humanity's relationship to an accelerating digital age.

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Timestamps:

02:12 - What is thinking and how does Matthew think?

06:15 - On what matters, values and interaction

12:54 - On Twitter and the emergent shadow of the collective unconscious

21:37 - Digital communication, sensemaking and existential risk

30:56 - Powerful media, foolish motion

35:35 - Towards a more adaptive collective intelligence and epistasis

44:17 - Considering value and exchange in the context of new representational structures

1:08:11 - Money, wealth, fungibility and non-fungibility in the emergent digital landscape

1:22:21 - Hopes for the future