#64 AI and the Global Brain
Trying to wrap our minds, hearts, and bodies around the rapidly evolving field of AI
Today we’re super excited to share an organic and wild conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers and theobiologians (that’s Bayo’s term) Bayo Akomalofe and Sophie Strand.
This conversation was hosted by Science and Nonduality’s Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. To hear the full conversation with Q&A from the live webinar you can view it here.
Also if you want to go deeper with Bayo and Sophie as well as Tyson Yunkaporta and Vanessa Andreotti and if you’re listening to this before the workshop starts on Oct 19 2022, please go to the website science and nonduality.com and consider registering for their three-day workshop.
This workshop is entitled The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound and it’s a chance to explore our shared global trauma as the modern grammar of loss.
Today’s discourse between Bayo and Sophie is a wild exploration of words, ideas, memes, biology, and ecology. Their dialog touches and weaves into so many territories.
Topics
- Environmental collapse
- Catholic Saints
- Joan of Arc
- Glitches in Evolution
- The power of mispronouncing
- COVID
- Ecotomes
- The diaspora of the body
- Babba Lau (who was recently featured on our SAND youtube channel)
- DSM Manual (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
- Bdelloid rotifera (Sophie’s Substack has more info on this creature)
- Transatlantic slave trade
- Tardigrades as gods
- Rewilding Pigs
It All Goes Down in Your Mind
Gabor weaving Johnny Cash and the Buddhist 'Dhammapada'
#63 Ancestral Constellations
Efu discussed her methods integrating ancestral wisdom from her Snail Clan in Tanzania, somatic therapy, and family constellations
Gaza and the Human Soul
Presidential candidate Cornel West and author Gabor Maté met for the first time this week to discuss the horrors of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Decolonizing Science
We are witnessing a resurgence of indigenous knowledge and growing acknowledgement of its scientific value worldwide
Healing Trauma Through Collective Meditation
How Buddhist meditation and mindfulness practices, in combination with more traditional forms of therapy, can help to heal individual and collective trauma
Reflection on Current Events
Weaving the current crisis in Palestine with timeless spiritual wisdom
A Call for Healing: Gabor Maté on Palestine/Israel
Wisdom 2.0 interview with Gabor Maté on Palestine / Israel