#64 AI & the Global Brain

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Peter Russell is on the faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a fellow of The World Business Academy and The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest, and President of Science and NonDuality.

In 1982 he coined the term “global brain” with his 1980s bestseller of the same name in which he predicted the Internet and the impact it would have.

Peter Russell Interviews his AI Clone

Peter’s new book, Forgiving Humanity: How the Most Innovative Species Became the Most Dangerous

Peter’s Course on SAND, Enjoying Meditation

Topics

  • 00:00 – Introduction
  • 03:23 – Peter’s AI Clone
  • 08:56 – The Black Box
  • 10:21 – Non-linearity
  • 11:17 – The Global Brain
  • 13:18 – Usefulness of GPTs
  • 15:52 – Forms of Intelligence
  • 17:38 – The Unexpected
  • 29:00 – AI & Consciousness
  • 31:32 – Digital Reality and Consciousness
  • 35:42 – Importance for Society
  • 50:48 – AI and Inequality
  • 53:57 – A Digital Dark Age?
  • 01:01:12 – The Future of AI

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