Seeing Clearly

The Gulf Oasis Hypothesis with Archeologist Dr. Jeffrey Rose

Watch the full episode now: https://cxgonzalez.substack.com/p/the-gulf-oasis-hypothesis-with-archeologist When I wrote We Found Eden, arguing that we know the time and p

Michael Johnson: “We SHOULD Make AI Conscious”

Michael Edward Johnson is a co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute and an independent researcher in the fields of consciousness, neuroscience and philosophy. Michael

Debating MIRI President Nate Soares About AI Doom

In this episode of Seeing Clearly, MIRI President and co-author of If Everyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Nate Soares and I discuss existential risk from artificial super i

Michael Huemer explains his full argument for objective morality

In this episode of Seeing Clearly, professor Michael Huemer and I run through his argument for moral realism: the thesis that there are objective moral facts knowable via

This is the Worst Thing Humanity Does | Seeing Clearly Episode 7

Factory farming is humanity’s greatest sin. In this episode I speak with Itsi Weinstock, an animal welfare advocate at Senterra Funders. We talk about what’s really going

The Brain is a Reducing Valve | Seeing Clearly Episode 6

Watch UNRAVELING THE DREAM: Jake’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@FrameProblems Jake’s X: https://x.com/jakeorthwein 1:08 — Origin of the film 4:00 — Bayesian bra

Has consciousness already been solved?

Dr. Ogi Ogas is a mathematical neuroscientist and, in his own words, a prophet. This is our conversation on God and consciousness. 1:44 — Who or what is God? 17:06 — Mi

[Podcast] Moral realism, Kantian ethics and veganism

In this episode we talk with Moral Law Within about God, secular morality, moral realism, reasons, intuitions, Kantian ethics, and more. Florence Bacus is a PhD student a

Embodiment, flow, creating a golden age, Neo-Hermeticism, God — Seeing Clearly episode 3

Leona is a consciousness researcher, a practitioner of Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra and the Cofounder of The House of Hyperstition (hyperstitio.us). This was an enlivening con

Predictive processing, morality, religion, tpot — Seeing Clearly episode 2

1:24 — Live music 3:33 — Predictive processing and normativity 17:41 — Identity 22:07 — Emotions as an error signal 24:40 — Is/ought gap 27:50 — Abstraction, concept

Rebuilding a high trust society, super organisms, fractal agency, Seeing Clearly episode 1

Richard Bartlett (@RichDecibles) is a community organizer and Vibe Mechanic at Casa Tilo. In this episode we discuss rebuilding a high trust society, bottom-up coordinati