23. Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness

23. Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness

Author: Nick Jamell July 25, 2018 Duration: 50:13
Those who know the Self become the Self. None in their family forgets the Self. Freed from the fetters of separateness, they attain to immortality.
Let this wisdom be taught only to those who obey life's unity. Let this wisdom be taught only to those who offer their lives to the Lord of Love.
Mundaka Upanishad

Watching the season 1 finale of Westworld, I realized that this dilemma was coming. I don't know the technology behind it, nor can I predict the way we will legislate it. What I am going to try today is to begin to understand humanity in a spiritual way, but also juxtaposing it to machine learning. The question is what makes us human? Can we artificially create humans? What would be the tipping point from machine to human?

This issue is as much about understanding our nature and our consciousness as it is understanding what we create.

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Nick Jamell hosts Conversation of Our Generation, a space where urgent contemporary questions meet enduring ideas from history and philosophy. Rather than reacting to the noise of daily headlines, this podcast deliberately steps back to examine the deeper currents shaping our society and culture. Each episode is a long-form dialogue that treats topics like politics, religion, and social change not as fodder for debate, but as puzzles to be understood with patience and intellectual humility. The aim is to move beneath entrenched partisanship and surface-level takes, searching instead for clearer perspectives and foundational truths. What you’ll hear are thoughtful explorations that connect modern dilemmas to the wisdom of ancient and modern thinkers, asking how we might navigate today’s complexities with a more grounded sense of principle. This isn’t about quick answers; it’s about cultivating a more meaningful and less reactive way of engaging with the world. For anyone feeling adrift in a polarized age, this podcast offers a sustained, earnest conversation that values depth over speed, and understanding over winning an argument. Tune in for a respite from the frantic news cycle and a chance to consider what it means to be part of this particular moment in time, armed with the best ideas from across the ages.
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83. College Is Dying- What Will Replace It? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:29
The college system is going away. It's obvious that the economic writing on the wall is there. However, education will remain. The question is what will this look like? "The goal of education is not to increase the amoun…
82. Scientists Aren't Philosophers... And Vice Versa [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:21
It seems as though we have trouble delineating between different means of understanding the world and how those should be used. I've seen philosophers make for bad scientists and scientists make for bad philosophers. The…
81. The Climate Change “Crisis” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:46
The panic over climate change seems to be getting worse and worse despite the fact that the predictions have been wrong time and time again. Today, I would like to discuss the panic around climate change and the lack of…
80. The Problems With Schooling (And Some Solutions) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:08
It seems that school has lost sight of the goal that they should be educating and challenging students instead of indoctrinating them. The system we have now doesn't truly provide an education, rather it is a path for sk…
79. Finding Freedom Through Discipline [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:21
This is something I discovered in my life a while ago, and have not had a single way of saying until listening to Jocko Willink and Akira the Don's remixes of his talks. There's one song called Discipline Equals Freedom…
78. Can We Make The Government A Little Less Stupid? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:57
Our government system has corroded over the 240 years since our founding, but I think there's a chance for us to revive it a little bit. I do not trust that any reforms to her government that would really right the ship…
77. What's With The Nation-building? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:54
As Trump calls off a meeting with the Taliban and the leaders of Afghanistan, we asked the questions: Why are we still there? When can we leave? The first question is easy to answer for anyone who has little siblings. Wh…
76. Problems With Objectivism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:20
I find that today many people that I agree with on many things subscribe to the objectivist philosophy. It almost seems as if Ayn Rand is every libertarian-leaning person's favorite philosopher. Today, I'd like to talk a…
75. Glossing Over The Good- Rewriting History As Racist [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:00
Today we discuss why America's history is not a story of racism, but one of triumph over racism, though it could have been faster to do so. This is in no way to belittle the struggles of victims of racist policies, insti…