Episode #183
Jason Silva
Books mentioned
The Information
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 00:02:09
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What Technology Wants
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 00:08:05
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The Beginning of Infinity
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 00:13:48
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Abundance
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 00:17:29
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What the Dormouse Said
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 00:19:39
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Neuromancer
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 00:34:10
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Darwin's Pharmacy
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 00:40:45
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The Denial of Death
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 01:02:44
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The Immortalist
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 01:07:06
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Food of the Gods
Mentioned by Jason Silva · at 01:46:53
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Jason Silva joins Joe Rogan to examine how technology, psychedelics, art, and storytelling shape consciousness and influence human evolution. They also discuss cannabis, democracy, sustainability, space exploration, technological acceleration, the singularity, immortality, and the potential for synthetic biology and other innovations to help address global problems.
What they talked about
- Artists writing genomes as a new canvas
- Technology as a secondary force of evolution
- Nanotechnology and post-scarcity abundance
- Psychedelics and the origins of language
- The denial of death and human creativity
- Patterns across nature and technology
- Space exploration and privatization
- Marijuana legalization and corporate lobbying
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