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Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

111 Episodes • By Daniel Thorson • www.whatisemerging.com/emergepod...
A podcast based inquiry into the next phase of the human experiment.
Society & Culture
Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next
Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next
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Jill Nephew - Using ChatGPT is Like Eating Plastic for Your Cognition
In this conversation I speak with Jill Nephew. Jill,... more
May 20 2023 1h 29m
The Trust Problem With AI
Chapter 1 5 mins
The critical difference between cognition and thinking
Chapter 2 6 mins
Why is using LLMs like eating plastic for our cognition?
Chapter 3 8 mins
What LLMs represent in the context of the meta-crisis
Chapter 4 11 mins
How LLMs signal trustworthiness and use randomness to confuse us and unground our cognition
Chapter 5 2 mins
What we can expect to see as LLMs introduce more plastic into our cognition
Chapter 6 9 mins
What ways of interacting with LLMs might be safe?
Chapter 7 5 mins
What are cults and how do they function in relationship to our cognition?
Chapter 8 1 min
The possibility of an AI 'supercult'
Chapter 9 4 mins
The most dangerous thing we do to each other
Chapter 10 7 mins
The deep meaningfulness and richness of grounded cognition, going beyond trauma healing, beyond the monkey mind
Chapter 11 5 mins
Technology to reclaim natural intelligence, the practice of inquiry, the difference between 'good' inquiry and 'bad' inquiry
Chapter 12 57 sec
The rigorous engineering behind good inquiry forms
Chapter 13 4 mins
The power of inquiry, the feeling of insight, how to achieve a quiet mind
Chapter 14 11 mins
Jill's advice for how to respond to the acceleration of planetary destruction
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John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, Nora Bateson - What is Transformation?
John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, and Nora Bateson discuss t... more
May 18 2023 1h 11m
Transformation and Societal Productivity
Chapter 1 3 mins
Introduction, the Respond Network, Patreon
Chapter 2 5 mins
Transformation Dimensionality
Chapter 3 4 mins
Consequences of Transformation
Chapter 4 5 mins
Transformation is not Chosen
Chapter 5 5 mins
Virtue in Response to Fate
Chapter 6 5 mins
Transformation is Ecological
Chapter 7 2 mins
Re-Humanization of Transformational Spaces
Chapter 8 9 mins
Necessary Tension within the Mythology of Hero
Chapter 9 2 mins
Shifts in Intergenerational Transmission
Chapter 10 6 mins
Ecology of Communication
Chapter 11 2 mins
Necessity of Cultural Cognitive Grammar
Chapter 12 15 mins
The Contextuality & Transferability of Transformation
Chapter 13 2 mins
How Skills are Interwoven & Transferable
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Zak Stein - AI Tutor Apocalypse
Zak Stein and Daniel Thorson discuss the myriad risk... more
Apr 24 2023 1h 36m
Exploring the Possibilities of Our Culture
Chapter 1 5 mins
Intro
Chapter 2 4 mins
Shift in Awareness of AI
Chapter 3 5 mins
GAI Risk
Chapter 4 1 min
AI Alignment & Human Alignment
Chapter 5 1 min
Risks of Generalized Nature of AI
Chapter 6 1 min
Accelerating Misaligned Institutions
Chapter 7 5 mins
AI Assistance & Anthropomorphism
Chapter 8 4 mins
Instantaneous Media Interfacing
Chapter 9 8 mins
AI Tutoring Risk
Chapter 10 3 mins
Obsoleting Human Relationship
Chapter 11 1 min
AI Perfecting Propaganda
Chapter 12 2 mins
Humanity's Educational Relationship
Chapter 13 3 mins
Breaking the Human Nervous System
Chapter 14 5 mins
AI Tutoring Risk Continued
Chapter 15 4 mins
Building Aligned AI Tutoring Technology
Chapter 16 2 mins
Importance of Non-Anthropomorphizable AI
Chapter 17 2 mins
Irreducibility of Human Goodness
Chapter 18 2 mins
The Limits of Computationalism
Chapter 19 4 mins
AI Tutoring Guardrails
Chapter 20 5 mins
Implementation of AI Tutoring Technology
Chapter 21 4 mins
AI Planetary Tutoring System
Chapter 22 3 mins
Solving the Meta-Crisis with AI Planetary Tutoring
Chapter 23 4 mins
The Emergence of the New Human
Chapter 24 5 mins
Right Relationship with Emerging AI Technology
Chapter 25 1 min
Conclusion
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David Sauvage - The Future of Collective Decision-Making
A conversation about how emergence can be the founda... more
Aug 6 2022 1h 20m
Chapter 1 5 mins
Introducing David
Chapter 2 5 mins
David’s Vision from the Emerge gathering
Chapter 3 18 mins
Occupy Wallstreet
Chapter 4 15 mins
The future of politics
Chapter 5 35 mins
The Third Attractor
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Gary Sheng - To Actualize Game B, Empower Gen Z
Gary Sheng co-founder of Civics Unplugged and Dream ... more
Jun 15 2022 1h 29m
Chapter 1 16 mins
Introducing Gary
Chapter 2 4 mins
Civics Unplugged
Chapter 3 18 mins
Dream DAO
Chapter 4 50 mins
Gary’s view of the emerging network from the outside in
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Steve March - An Integrated Ecology of Practice for the Meta-Crisis
Steve March is the creator of an integrated ecology ... more
Jun 13 2022 1h 46m
Chapter 1 6 mins
Introducing Steve
Chapter 2 4 mins
First, Second, Third Generation Coaching
Chapter 3 4 mins
Aletheia and the Fourth Generation of Coaching
Chapter 4 36 sec
What if we are already whole?
Chapter 5 1 min
Reservations about the term “coaching”
Chapter 6 4 mins
Exploring Unfoldment
Chapter 7 19 mins
Technological Attunement and Poetic Attunement
Chapter 8 8 mins
Invoking Poetic Attunement
Chapter 9 43 mins
Deeping eclecticism into integration
Chapter 10 9 mins
Scaling Psychotechnologies
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Sean Wilkinson - Circling, Meditation & Trauma
Circling Europe co-founder Sean Wilkinson and I expl... more
May 23 2022 1h 57m
Chapter 1 3 mins
Introducing Sean
Chapter 2 3 mins
What is at the edge of meditation, circling, and trauma work?
Chapter 3 6 mins
Discovering the limits of circling
Chapter 4 16 mins
Exhausting an Orientation to Practice
Chapter 5 5 mins
Scale Invariance
Chapter 6 9 mins
Eclecticism to Integration
Chapter 7 15 mins
The Orientation of Trust
Chapter 8 20 mins
The Feeling Process
Chapter 9 15 mins
A short guided meditation
Chapter 10 1 min
Metamodernism and the Meta-Crisis (mesa crisis?)
Chapter 11 15 mins
The Paradigm of Leadership
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Circling & Soulmaking with Ellen McSweeney & Daniel Thorson
In this episode fellow Monastic Academy resident Ell... more
Apr 14 2022 1h 14m
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Mark Feenstra - Renormaling: Fractal Harmony in Action
In this episode Mark Feenstra guides me through his ... more
Dec 4 2021 1h 50m
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Harmonizing to Emerge with John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke speaks with Seishin and myself about t... more
Oct 12 2021 1h 28m
Chapter 1 5 mins
p.m. ET: Jade Method Meditation Course
Chapter 2 1 hr 17 mins
a.m. ET: Intro to Harmonization: A New Ecology of Practices
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Layman Pascal - Spiritual Practice as Harmonization
Layman Pascal is an author, speaker, and body-mind-s... more
Oct 12 2021 1h 16m
Chapter 1 5 mins
p.m. ET: Jade Method Meditation Course
Chapter 2 1 hr 4 mins
a.m. ET: Intro to Harmonization: A New Ecology of Practices
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Soryu Forall - Responding to Collapse: Virtue and Possibility at the World's End
Is it still possible to create a more beautiful futu... more
Aug 12 2021 26m
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Rob McNamara - Adult Development & Ensoulment
Rob McNamara is an author, leadership coach, advisor... more
Jul 24 2021 1h 39m
Chapter 1 2 sec
Who do we need to become to navigate this planetary meta-crisis?
Chapter 2 4 sec
“Revolutionary enfoldment” / new vectors of development
Chapter 3 7 sec
Limitations of just adding more complexity
Chapter 4 7 sec
Takes 10 years. Do we even have that? XR: “sacrifice for future generation” Hero frame
Chapter 5 6 sec
Exploring other distinctions / sovereignty and surrender
Chapter 6 2 sec
“If we’re not willing to die, we don’t get to touch the ineffable grace of life”
Chapter 7 6 sec
The diversification of identity
Chapter 8 7 sec
The illumined reality / world as image structure
Chapter 9 3 sec
What needs to happen in public? / education
Chapter 10 8 sec
How do we cultivate the capacity to attune to image? / image is prior to language
Chapter 11 3 sec
Circling / need for community
Chapter 12 2 sec
“giving someone an image that is not their own”
Chapter 13 2 sec
Omniwin / “image structure is not an exhaustible resource”
Chapter 14 1 sec
Finite and infinite games / “switching arena of pathos to soul-making” / “game on, forever”
Chapter 15 2 sec
How to increase access to this?
Chapter 16 2 sec
Organizational development / “If this is our last thing, what do we do?”
Chapter 17 2 sec
How do we ground this in community? / problem-solving / play
Chapter 18 2 sec
Robert = “bright counselor”
Chapter 19 1 hr 38 mins
Wrap-up
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Zak Stein - The Eros of Ethics
In this first conversation after a year sabbatical f... more
Jun 28 2021 1h 34m
Chapter 1 2 sec
Opening
Chapter 2 2 sec
How to create the kinds of humans who can respond to the meta-crisis?
Chapter 3
Practices for Wellbeing
Chapter 4
Human as ethical actor, intimacy and obligation
Chapter 5
Ethics in Community, MAPLE’s advantage
Chapter 6 7 sec
Closing
Chapter 7 5 sec
Moral development
Chapter 8 1 sec
“How do you get someone interested in what is truly good?”
Chapter 9 3 sec
Linking / meta-psychology
Chapter 10 3 sec
Community ethics feedback loops
Chapter 11 3 sec
Objective ethics
Chapter 12
Embodied ethical sensing
Chapter 13 4 sec
Intersection between Trauma & Ethics, desensitization, somatic de-armoring
Chapter 14 3 sec
Trust, return of the Sacred
Chapter 15 4 sec
The Moral Exemplar
Chapter 16 1 sec
Exposure to the full ethical range
Chapter 17 1 hr 34 mins
“Trauma” in culture
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Emerge Returns: Solo Episode
Emerge is back! This is a solo episode where I share... more
Jun 28 2021 23m
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The End of Emerge (For Now)
I've decided to put this project on hold and dedicat... more
Sep 18 2020 19m
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Zak Stein - American Culture's Psychotic Break (pt. 2)
In the first episode after my 75 day silent retreat ... more
Jul 9 2020 59m
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Zak Stein - American Culture's Psychotic Break (pt. 1)
In the first episode after my 75 day silent retreat ... more
Jul 1 2020 1h 9m
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Soryu Forall - Manufactured Awakenings
Soryu Forall is the founder and head-teacher of the ... more
Mar 13 2020 1h 46m
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Jonathan Reams - Waking Up & Growing Up: How Seeing the Virtuality of Self Supports Adult Development
Jonathan Reams works at the Norwegian University of ... more
Mar 11 2020 1h 24m
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Andrew J. Taggart - Existential Openings & Psychotechnologies of Self-Transformation
Andrew J Taggart is a practical philosopher, Zen Bud... more
Mar 11 2020 1h 34m
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Robert Kegan - The Five Stages of Adult Development (And Why You Probably Aren't Stage 5)
Robert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, research... more
Mar 6 2020 1h 11m
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Mark Feenstra - The Inner Dimension of the Meta-Crisis
In this episode, I'm speaking with Mark Feenstra.&nb... more
Mar 1 2020 1h 1m
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Rob Burbea - Emptiness, Postmodernism, and Sacred Participation
On this episode I'm joined once again by meditation ... more
Nov 25 2019 1h 51m
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Jamie Bristow - Mindfulness as Metamodern Psychotechnology
Jamie Bristow joins the show to respond to critiques... more
Nov 18 2019 1h 28m
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