If you found these topics and my presentation interesting or informative, you may also find my book 'Zionist Musings: Thoughts For A Better World' similarly engaging. You can purchase a paperback copy for $10 USD +shipping on Amazon and only $3 USD on Amazon Kindle:

https://a.co/d/bsVP2Hp

You can find the full written transcript for this episode published in my newsletter 'A Dose of Sanity' on Substack and LinkedIn:

https://adoseofsanity.substack.com/p/special-mans-search-for-meaning-by

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/special-mans-search-meaning-dr-viktor-frankl-lesson-all-anthony-remis-pgmdc/

If you are listening on a platform other than YouTube or Spotify, you can find the video for this episode at the following links:

https://youtu.be/8rGOAwhK7VI

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Man’s Search for Meaning by Dr. Viktor Frankl—this is a must-own book. If you do not yet have a copy, purchase one here:

https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0807014273/

Remember Bergen-Belsen:

https://bergen-belsen.stiftung-ng.de/en/your-visit/historicalgroundsofthecamp/ 

Remember Babi Yar/Babyn Yar:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kiev-and-babi-yar 

Remember the victims of October 7th:

https://october7memorial.com/memoriam 

Remember the Nova Music Festival Massacre:

https://theweitzman.org/exhibitions/nova/ 

Watch Screams Before Silence, a documentary on the sexual violence of Hamas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAr9oGSXgak 

Bring every hostage home now.

#HolocaustRemembrance #ViktorFrankl #MansSearchforMeaning

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I started writing this one while Mr. Kundera was still alive. He has since passed on, but his legacy will exist forever in history as a moment as fixed as the Big Bang itself. I hope my tribute to him and his novel does justice to his work.Music by OB-LIX, Zakhar Valaha, Aleksey Chistilin, and Yevhen Onoychenko from Pixabay

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Progress is speeding up even as the world barrels toward one of innumerable disasters. What lies ahead, and what should we do when we get there? In the best-case scenario, we may still have control over our direction.

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It's a great day for an existential crisis! What are the odds that you ever existed at all? Find that out and more on our latest foray into the insanity of existence!

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References:

Nick Bostrom AI TED Talk

https://youtu.be/MnT1xgZgkpk

All Tomorrows episode inspiration (not directly related)-

https://youtu.be/YbuulUQzHRU

Deepmind destroying Atari -

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/deepmind-ai-atari/

Warming cities - 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming

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There's no real answer for the question of why we are here. At least not one that we know. Sure, the big bang, evolution, emperors and economies. But that doesn't answer the question of why. Why are we here? Well, we emerged. From what - that is the question. As always, thanks for listening. It means a lot to me that someone, somewhere can hear my thoughts.

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Aristotle:

https://se-scholar.com/se-blog/2017/6/23/who-said-the-whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-the-parts

Space and the distances between:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel

Emptiness of atoms:

https://education.jlab.org/qa/how-much-of-an-atom-is-empty-space.html

Exurb1a and hard logicality:

https://youtu.be/EH-z9gE2uGY

Machine learning:

https://www.sas.com/en_us/insights/analytics/machine-learning.html

Crashcourse neural networks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3ZY6tJiA0

Honeybee honeycombs:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28341

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When the robot overlords come for me, tell them I'm out grabbing a byte. I joke, but artificial intelligence may legitimately mean the end of life as we know it if we're not careful. In this series I'll be investigating the many facets of AI and what the future may hold for humanity.

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Resources:

Uyghur genocide, perpetuated by the government of China: 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/asia/china-surveillance-xinjiang.html

CRISPR gene editing:

https://www.newscientist.com/definition/what-is-crispr/

AlphaFold AI protein folding project:

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology

Deep Blue chess AI project:

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/deepblue/

Prions and mad cow disease:

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/all-about-bse-mad-cow-disease

Tesla’s AI:

https://www.tesla.com/AI

Sam Harris TED Talk:

https://youtu.be/8nt3edWLgIg

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon

Brief history of the universe:

https://www.space.com/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream

Kardashev scale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

A significant portion of the video was inspired by CGP Grey’s video on AI, it is definitely worth a watch:

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There is little doubt in my mind that artificial intelligence is the most fascinating, utterly confusing, and potentially dangerous development mankind will go through. In the near future, we will need to face ethical questions of such kind as, do we grant personhood to AI? How do we determine who qualifies as a person and therefore is afforded ‘human rights’? What restrictions, if any, are necessary on personhood and artificial intelligence to ensure the flourishing and continuation of life?What I believe lies at the very heart of this discussion, is consciousness. Consciousness as subjective experience of the world seems to be more or less how we determine right from wrong. We find it immoral to cause harm to a subjectively experiencing entity, from babies to puppies, so long as we agree that they are in fact capable of subjective experience. Will AI develop this felt experience? And how will we tell?These questions, and more, I hope to address in this new series. Take care guys.

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Quite a messy episode. Freedom of speech is messy. Even so, I hope to convince you of the truth of what Voltaire stood for.

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Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance: 

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/voltaire1763.pdf

Life and times of Voltaire:

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

Voltaire's Candide:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19942/19942-h/19942-h.htm

Hong Kong autonomy:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-retreats-from-50-year-pledge-of-Hong-Kong-autonomy2

Mao ZeDong's sparrow drive:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306422018800259

Whorf hypothesis:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis

George Orwell's 1984:

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt

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As with many of Plato's works, it is legitimately impossible to overstate the impact and significance of Plato's Republic on our society, development, and life in general. As I explore the smallest fraction of the wisdom within, I relay and relate my thoughts on the January 6th attack on the Capitol Building of the United States of America. Perhaps there is something we can learn from Plato that may help us through this time. Or perhaps not. But if there is even the slightest chance that something can save our republic, I believe it is absolutely worth a try.

Read Plato's Republic at Project Gutenberg:

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Hermann Hesse wrote in German, but the concepts within are indescribable in any language. Watch and listen to my struggle to understand. And please, if you can...enlighten us.

Video link: https://youtu.be/PeBec7wzgGM

Read Siddhartha from Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2500/2500-h/2500-h.htm

Listen to the audiobook from LibriVox:

https://librivox.org/siddhartha-by-hermann-hesse/

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