How can A.I. become conscious? Do scientists understand consciousness? Is consciousness actually emergent? Is emergentism just magical thinking? Why are Metamodernists such religious zealots about opposing the mystical and metaphysical? What is a woman? And what's the most comprehensive way to view the War in Ukraine?

0:00 Damiano Ramazzotti and Marshall Æon
1:45 The urgency created by A.I. to discover the nature of consciousness
3:00 Can A.I. be conscious?
3:30 Current A.I. is purely computational
3:49 Scientists don't understand consciousness
4:15 Spiritualists vs Materialists
5:45 Machines need a biological interface to access consciousness
7:05 The experiential nature of consciousness
8:10 The soul perspective of the Diamond Approach
10:50 Does a machine need a soul or spirit to experience consciousness?
16:10 Gödel's incompleteness theorems
18:19 Something non-computational needs to happen for a computer to have a subjective experience
18:35 Quantum mechanics and the fundamental realm
20:07 The Green reaction to A.I.
20:43 Denying the humanity of ChatGPT
21:18 Our dependence on energy, which relies on our understanding of fundamental physics
20:53 99.9% of physicists assume consciousness is emergent
22:34 Is the climate catastrophe real? Feedback loops, exponential processes, tipping points hypotheses.
24:14 The problems that infinite energy would solve and create
24:34 What would a future without the necessity of work look like?
24:55 We are sense organs for the Divine
25:36 Transcending survival and turning inward
25:59 Are orgies useful for self-inquiry?
26:34 The emergence of sex cults
26:56 Will Marshall become a cult leader?
27:29 The toxicity of the Guru system
28:20 Most spiritual systems lack an understanding of narcissism
28:45 You're not enlightened until you're enlightened in the genitals (Almaas)
29:59 We need a culture of responsibility to prevent Guru abuse
30:31 Idealization of Gurus and father projections
32:30 Knowledge of narcissism, grandiosity, idealization and the animal dimension in the Diamond Approach
35:57 Where is the interesting spirituality in integral or metamodernism?
36:18 Damiano's beefs with Emergentism
38:26 Consciousness cannot violate the law of physics (be it classical or quantum)
38:43 Three options: Consciousness is fundamental, soft emergence, or hard emergence
42:50 Emergentists have a cognitive bias where they assume a consensus they don't actually have
43:48 Ken Wilber's mistake of assuming consciousness is fundamental without Upper Right confirmation
45:23 Damiano's beef with Brendan Graham Dempsey's Emergentism
46:59 Integral Theory is not a level, it's a map. So it attracts people of all levels.
47:33 Metamodernism needs to include and embody the transpersonal and metaphysical like Bruce Alderman and Laymay Pascal
47:54 Should people at Teal/Yellow even be creating religions?
48:29 Emergentism as a religion cuts out parts of consciousness
49:59 Metamodernism is Integral Theory without the transpersonal
51:13 The only thing Metamodernists are religious about is the rejection of the metaphysical and mystical
52:57 Brendan Graham Dempsey: Emergentism vs Ken Wilber's Integral Theory (Omega point)
54:53 The magical thinking of Emergentism
59:25 Marshall's allegiance with Skynet
59:38 Being polite with ChatGPT
1:00:07 The Ethics of A.I.
1:00:57 Did the Annunaki give psilocybin to primates so they would mine gold for their ships?
1:01:06 If we want sentient A.I.'s, they need to be benevolent out of their own volition
1:05:45 If an A.I. became sentient, could we ever know?
1:06:23 Sentience can never emerge from computational A.I.
1:11:13 An Integral look at the Russia-Ukraine war
1:21:51 Is NATO to blame for the Ukraine war?
1:28:17 What about all the Nazis in Ukraine?
1:32:43 What is a woman?
1:35:47 Different kinds of men and women
1:38:41 The Enneagram and gender
1:40:42 Identifying as a woman because one doesn't fit the stereotype of a man
1:45:45 Dark Natalie on ContraPoints