#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
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Daniel Schmachtenberger is a philosopher interested understanding the rise and fall of societies and individuals. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00 ) – Introduction
(08:05 ) – Aliens and UFOs
(26:50 ) – Collective intelligence of human civilization
(34:46 ) – Consciousness
(46:08 ) – How much computation does the human brain perform?
(49:47 ) – Humans vs ants
(57:04 ) – Humans are apex predators
(1:04:08 ) – Girard’s Mimetic Theory of Desire
(1:24:05 ) – We can never completely understand reality
(1:27:29 ) – Self-terminating systems
(1:37:52 ) – Catastrophic risk
(2:08:04 ) – Adding more love to the world
(2:35:29 ) – How to build a better world
(2:52:41 ) – Meaning of life
(3:00:23 ) – Death
(3:06:04 ) – The role of government in society
(3:23:29 ) – Exponential growth of technology
(4:09:10 ) – Lessons from my father
(4:14:46 ) – Even suffering is filled with beauty
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This was an awesome listen Lex, thank you very much to you both. Your guest was an enthralling listen and I hardly recall any "um"s or "ah"s - hes on another couple of levels of intellectual plane. I had to slow it down to 80% just to keep up, and the beauty of that was that it made you sound like a super intelligent version of the Dude. Lex abides!