Humans On The Loop
Episodes
Collective Futurecrafting: Play, Trauma, and The Duty of Care with Mathew Mytka
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
✨ Like/Subscribe/Comment where you listen! YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ Become a member for our reading group, community calls, and yea...
Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we join pioneering psychedelic neuroscientist Andrew Gallimore (Website | X | Instagram | Substack) to probe the bewildering high-dime...
(Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s very overdue conversation is with AI ethicist and organizational trust expert Nathan Kinch of Trustworthy By Design (Website | LinkedIn), as...
AI Doesn't Have To Be This Way feat. Alex Komoroske
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week go deep with Alex Komoroske, CEO and co-founder of Common Tools, about his vision for a more saner, more intentional tech paradigm in which ...
Fostering "Prodigies of Uncertainty" with Layman Pascal
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The world is getting weirder every day… We need weirdness specialists. Maybe the best guy for the job is my friend, the brilliant “metashaman” (...
Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we come at technology sideways with help from hyperspace explorer Carl Hayden Smith, Associate Professor of Media at the University of East ...
Co-Intelligence & Planetary Perspectives with Rimma Boshernitsan of DIALOGUE
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts | Discord | FB GroupThis week (actually, April) I speak with Rimma Boshernitsan (Website |...
Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts✨ About This EpisodeThis week I talk to Sam Arbesman, scientist-in-residence at Lux Capit...
Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsThis week we hear from Larry Muhlstein, who worked on Responsible AI at Google and DeepMind...
Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsToday’s guest Taryn Southern is someone I consider a master surfer of technological chang...
Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsWe live in simulated worlds of our own making, detecting patterns in the chaos and complexi...
Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsThis week I speak with Rufus Pollock (Website | Twitter | Wikipedia), former Mead Fellow in...
Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsThis week we speak with George Pór, mentee of Doug Englebart, Founder of Future HOW, Enliv...
Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsThis week’s guest is my friend Evan Miyazono, CEO and Director of Atlas Computing — a t...
Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsWhat the hell is going on with culture right now? The Web is running evolution in fast-forw...
Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Cadell Last, the creator of Philosophy Portal, author of Global Brain Singularity and Real Speculations, and organizer of myria...
The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is the singular Michael Dean, who graduated from architecture school and played in a band before spending years in tech working on...
The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“When I have a rich, powerful, mind expanding, mind bending conversation like this, I'll need to go and lie down in darkened room afterwards.”– ...
Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest my friend Joshua DiCaglio, Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and author of the fabulous Scale Theory: A Nondi...
Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jim O’Shaughnessy (Website | X) joins Humans On The Loop to carry our first on-record conversation on Infinite Loops into bold new terrain...
Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where do we need boundaries, and where do we need flows? And how can we ensure that we can redistribute them according to the changing needs of any gi...
Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I dialogue with Matthew David Segall, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integra...
Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Humans On The Loop I welcome Andrew McLuhan, author, teacher, and Director of The McLuhan Institute, a generational ark for media theory ...
J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Halfway through one of my favorite sci-fi novels, Charles Stross’ Accelerando, we tune in to the members of an interstellar first contact mission as...
Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • SpotifyIf you value this series, please consider becoming a patron here on Substack or wi...
Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • Spotify If you value this series, please consider becoming a patron here on Substack or w...
Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsThis week I speak with author, futurist, and strategist Jessica Clark of Dot Connec...
New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsThis week we speak with K Allado-McDowell, artist, musician, and co-founder of the ...
Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsThis week I speak with New York Times best-selling author and creative technologist...
Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsThis week I speak with my friend Stephanie Lepp (Website | LinkedIn), two-time Webb...
Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsThis week’s guest is my friend and inspiration, knowledge ecologist Christina Bow...
The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsWhen technology gets byzantine, when the heady early years of cybernetic mysticism ...
Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsWhen, suddenly, the barrier between “imagination” and “reality” evaporates ...
📚🧙🏼♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ About This Episode“The best academic lecture/slam poetry/sermon/magical invoc...
⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ Support & Participate• Become a patron on Substack (my preference) or ...
🐦⬛🐙🖤 230 - Jamie Curcio on Living in Mythpunk, Eldritch Complexity, and Finding The Bright Side of Dark Ages
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsThis week I talk with Jamie Curcio to ask, whom do we serve? Who gives us power,...
👾🖼️🏯 229 - Sara Phinn Huntley on Making A Field Guide to DMT Entities
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple PodcastsThis week on Future Fossils I welcome back Sara Phinn Huntley (hel...
🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to multidisciplinary independent researcher William Sarill, whose life has traced a high-dimensional curve through biochemistry, ar...
🎙️🖇️🕸️ 227 - MG + Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: Network Philosophy, Caring Organizations, & Wiser Innovation
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Future Fossils, I meet with the wonderful Tim Adalin of Voicecraft. Watch us get to know each other a little bit better on a swapcast (hi...
📚🧐🦾 226 - Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ About This EpisodeHow can we design virtuous technologies while acknowled...
🤰🏽🧐🕸️ 225 - Alyssa Allegretti on Sacred Domesticity and Hard Times in The Liminal Web
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ About This EpisodeIf you’re wondering why this episode came later than ...
🔍👁️🔮 224 - Helané Wahbeh of IONS on Arguments against Materialism and for New Theories of Consciousness
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ About This EpisodeThis week on Future Fossils we speak wit...
🔥🌎💒 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking Blasphemy
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ About This EpisodeThe world is getting hotter, faster, strang...
👾🍄🧮 222 - Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Now also on YouTube!In this episode we’re joined by Andrés Goméz Emilsson, President and Director of Research at the Qualia Research Institute (QR...
📯💗🌌 221 - Tom Morgan on Answering The Call of Destiny & Love As An Attractor
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dre...
🤖🌳📈 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week I riff with Austin Wade Smith (they/them) — an animist, designer, ecologist, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, New York and the...
🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week marks the beginning of Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I., a six-week online course led by writer and teacher Joshua Schrei, host of The Eme...
🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m honored to share a profound and soulful conversation on science and spirituality with Neil Theise, professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman Sc...
💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you care about this show as a public good, consider signing up on Substack or Patreon today for bonus episodes, live calls, and more — or at leas...
🐦⬛🦖🕵🏼♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week I speak with Jingmai O’Connor (Staff Page | Instagram), Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles (a.k.a. Priestess of Dead Dino-Birds) at The ...
🫂👩🏼💻🔍 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week I speak with social scientist Nicholas Brigham Adams (Twitter, LinkedIn) about his work at Goodly Labs to create new infrastructure for coll...
👁️🔄📀 214 - J.F. Martel, Phil Ford, & Megan Phipps on Weird Cybernetics: Waking Up From The Ecstasy
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you!Merry Christmas, Future Fossils! This is Michael Garf...
🕸️⛩️💻 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you!This week I speak with two of the most thoughtful people...
🌏🚜🫀212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphere
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever!This week on the show I speak with physicist Geoffrey West (SFI) and evolutionar...
💻🍄🧙🏼♂️ 211 - Adam Aronovich on A Cultural Anthropology for The Psychedelic Internet
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever!This week on Future Fossils we pierce the veil with Adam Aronovich, cultural ant...
👁️🧠🎧 210 - Mitch Schultz & Shanta Stevens on Documenting The Next Psychedelic Revolution
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever!This week I welcome back psychedelic film-maker and culture-cultivator Mitch Sch...
🍄🎥👁️ 209 - Ken Adams on A Life of Psychedelic Film-Making & Collaboration with Terence McKenna
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I have the joy of sharing a long-overdue discussion with legendary psychedelic media pioneer Ken Adams (Vimeo | LinkedIn), one of the first ...
👷🏽🌎🎊 208 - Building Cultural Capacity for A REAL Psychedelic Renaissance with Samantha Sweetwater, Ian-Michael Hebert, and Jahan Khamsehzadeh @ Psychedelic Science 2023
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.comThis week on the show I share a reading and panel discussion...
🌊🏄🌱 207 - Tech & Community LIVE at Junkyard Social Club with Evan Snyder, Ryan Madson, Roger Toennis, Aaron Gabriel, & Juicy Life
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.comThis week I’m glad to share a special Future Fossils Live ...
🤩🎻🤖 206 - Scout Rainer Wiley on AI vs. BS Jobs, The Return of Culture, and Eldritch Wonders in The Bright Apocalypse
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com...about AI, art, culture, celebrity, identity, and trauma.B...
🎶⚔️👏🏼 205 - Greg Thomas & Stephanie Lepp on Jazz Leadership & Antagonistic Cooperation
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.comBefore we begin: I’m teaching a six-week online course on ...
💐📚🏛️ 204 - Jamie Joyce on The Society Library and Tools for Making Sense Together
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk with Jamie Joyce of The Society Library!✨ SOME References:An Oral History of The End of ‘Reality’Regina Rini and the Epistemi...
203 - Kevin Kelly on Excellent Advice for Living, Playing with AI, and Staying Curious
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pardon the delay, as I’ve been gathering more conversations than I’ve shared. Future Fossils is about to go into the rapids with three amazing bac...
202 - Caveat Magister on Psychomagic, Amusement Parks, & Turning Your Life Into Art
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I welcome Caveat Magister, resident philosopher of Burning Man, to Future Fossils to discuss his latest book, Turn Your Life Into Art!...
201 - KMO & Kevin Wohlmut on our Blue Collar Black Mirror: Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Adventure Time, ChatGPT, & More
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about the intersections of large language models, the golden age of television and its storytelling mishaps, making one’s way thro...
200 - Ehren Cruz & Daphne Krantz on Psychedelics, Addiction, and Transcendence
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode two hundred of Future Fossils! On this episode, I'm joined by Ehren Cruz (LinkedIn, Instagram, Website) and Daphne Krantz (LinkedIn...
199 - The Great Decoherence of Android Jones
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I have one of the most vulnerable, personal, and profound conversations ever shared on the show — and it’s one that speaks directly to t...
198 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Aliens, Land Spirits, & The Singularity (Part 2)
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“We want to be careful when we’re in conflict on the internet.”– Tadaaki HozumiTadaaki Hozumi, member of Japan’s oldest surviving lineage of...
197 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Lost Civilizations, and The Singularity (Part 1)
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week and next, we talk to returning guest Tadaaki Hozumi about the crossroads between the esoteric history of Japan and its Indigenous peoples an...
196 - Robert Poynton on Improvisation As A Way of Life
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rate and review the show at Apple PodcastsBrowse my newsletter, original art, prints, merchandise, etc.“Notice more. Let go. Use everything.”I’v...
195 - A.I. Art: An Emergency Panel with Julian Picaza, Evo Heyning, Micah Daigle, Jamie Curcio, & Topher Sipes
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Complete show notes at PatreonRate and review the show at Apple PodcastsBrowse my newsletter, original art, prints, merchandise, etc.✨ About This Ep...
194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Complete, EXTENSIVE show notes at PatreonRate and review the show at Apple PodcastsBrowse my newsletter, original art, prints, merchandise, etc.How mu...
193 - Kimberly Dill on Environmental Philosophy: In Defense of Wildness & Night
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week I talk with environmental philosopher and Santa Clara Clara Assistant Professor Kimberly Dill, an old friend of mine from Austin, Texas whom...
192 - My Cataract: An Initiation 👁✨
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week I go solo and get reflective on age, noise, loss, mystery, stars and angels, dreams and seasons, modern science and the retrieval of magic.....
191 - Roland Harwood on Learning To Be Liminal
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe wherever you dig podcastsRate and review the show at Apple PodcastsBrowse my newsletter, original art, prints, merchandise, NFTs, etc.Dig in...
190 - Lauren Seyler on Dark Microbiology & Right Relations in Science
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rate and review the show at Apple PodcastsDig into the complete, extensive show notes at PatreonThis week we’re joined by Lauren Seyler, Assistant P...
189 - Planet-scale Musical Chairs: 21st Century Human Geography with Parag Khanna
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Future Fossils, we sync up with globe-trotting (Singapore-based) futurist Parag Khanna, author of several internationally best-selling bo...
188 - LARPing as a Nation-State with Jon Hillis & 0xZakk of CABIN DAO and Christian Lemp of Diamond DAO
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Complete, EXTENSIVE show notes at Patreon.com/michaelgarfield!As guest 0xZakk says at the very end of this conversation, most of the construction proj...
187 - Fear & Loathing on the Electronic Frontier with Kevin Welch & David Hensley of EFF-Austin
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Find the complete show notes for this episode on Patreon. This episode was recorded live in Austin, Texas at the West China Tea House in partnership w...
186 - A Manifesto for Weird Science
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
or, “Why Isn’t There A Science of X?”or, “Alchemy is to Chemistry as Astrology is to…?”“If people don’t believe us after all the resul...
185 - What Good Is Conversation? Jonathan Rowson, Bonnitta Roy, Jason Snyder, Ashley Colby, & Stephanie Lepp Play Liminal Lingo Bingo Amidst The Metacrisis
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Don't waste another minute here. Go read the full show notes on Patreon!Be forewarned: This latest episode is some extremely heady stuff. But thankful...
184 - Henry Gee on The History & Future of Life on Earth (& Much Else!)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I don't even know where to start with this amazing episode. Henry Gee is the Senior Editor of Nature, the author of many cool science books including ...
183 - The Evolution of Poetic Song Verse with Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Find the complete show notes and support the show at Patreon.This week on Future Fossils, Orpheus is in the building for a soulful and visionary conve...
182 - Siv Watkins on Microanimism: Living with The Smalls
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Microbiologist, independent scholar, ritualist, equestrian therapist, and overall badass Siv Watkins joins the show this week to discuss right relatio...
181 - Jim Rutt on The Pre- and Post-History of GameB
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Get the AMAZING full show notes on Patreon (free public post).Jim Rutt joins us this week to explore the pre- and post-history of “GameB”, an anti...
180 - Web3 & Complex Systems with Park Bach, Sid Shrivastava, Shirley Bekins, & Avel Guénin-Carlut at Complexity Weekend
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week I talk with four brilliant people working in and around the study of complex systems about the World Wide Web’s co-evolution with cryptocu...
179 - Scout-Lieder Wiley on Transrational Oracles & Magical Thinking in The 21st Century
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Future Fossils, metamodern magick ritual artist, yogini, songwriter, and delicious weirdo Scout-Lieder Wiley and I ask: “How are you ...
178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutions
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The longest-incubated episode of Future Fossils ever! "Vanthropologist" Chris Ryan and I discuss his book, Civilized To Death: The Price of Progress, ...
177 - Systems Design & Extended Cognition at Complexity Weekend with Tom Carter, Jenn Huff, Pietro Michelucci, and Richard James MacCowan
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last autumn, as part of the Complexity Weekend hackathon, I hosted a live panel discussion with four unique and fascinating minds. We discussed archae...
176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summit
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in a powerful panel discussion at the Psilocybin Summit, we reflect on the lessons of magic mushrooms with three of the smartest, wisest tr...
175 - C. Thi Nguyen on The Seductions of Clarity, Weaponized Games, and Agency as Art
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week I talk to philosopher C. Thi Nguyen (objectionable.net | @add_hawk) of the University of Utah, author of Games: Agency as Art and many fasci...
174 - Evan "Skytree" Snyder on Sound Design for A Robotic Built Wilderness
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by robotics engineer, electronic music producer, and Future Fossils co-founder Evan “Skytree” Snyder — who has recently b...
173 - Daniel Shankin on Psychedelic Integration - The Path of the Heart
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week I commune with psychedelic integration counselor Daniel ‘Sitaram Das’ Shankin, founder of Tam Integration and The Psilocybin Summit, in ...
172 - Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Systems Thinking, Fractal Governance, Ontopunk, and Queering W.E.I.R.D. Modernity
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years, and someone I’m honored and delighted to know. I can hardly express h...
171 - Eric Wargo on Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time Travel
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we welcome back anthropologist and science writer Eric Wargo, for a conversation about his book Precognitive Dreamwork and The Long Self —...
170 - The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo Rides The Transtempouroboros and Waits for The End of The World to End
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is a true return to form, in which my old friend Michael Jacobs (aka The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo, aka Void Denizen) and I tal...
169 - Leidy Klotz on Design, Behavior, and When to Subtract
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk to Leidy Klotz about his book, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less.Leidy Klotz is an Associate Professor at the University of Vir...
168 - Mikey Lion & Malena Grosz on Festival Time, Life-Changing Trips, and Community in COVID
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and/or please rate and review Future Fossils on ...
167 - Robert Jacobson on Opening The High Frontier for Business
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk with Robert C. Jacobson, entrepreneur and space industry enabler, advocate, and investor. Jacobson is the founder of Space Advis...
166 - Anna Riedl on Bounded Rationality & Effective Altruism
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by Anna Riedl, a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum and organizer at Effective Altruism Austria, currently studying Co...