What makes us human? Is it consciousness? Is it our emotional complexity? Is it merely our physical body? Sometimes the only way to see through our biases in perception is to consider an alternative…an opposite. This week we are discussing our big question in the context of two great films — Ex Machina & Her.
This week Clay and Sarah reach for their cups of coffee and contemplate how and why we might rediscover the wild.
This week we use Burroughs’s famous quote “language is a virus from outer space” to contemplate language as instinct, technology or virus.
In this episode, we revisit the original idea of hedonism as ancient Greek philosophy that argued that pleasure and happiness are the primary or most important intrinsic goods and the aim of human life.
When the very things that once excited us now feel boring and repetitive… When we’ve achieved our big goal but now feel as if we are stagnating and wanting more… When we’ve mastered a set of skills and feel a new call to adventure and change… Read More
Hooray. We’ve made it to episode 100. For this episode, we reached out to you, our listeners, to find out what their ultimate questions are.
Obstacles, difficulties, things “not going according to plan” are an inevitable part of life. But how we respond to these so-called obstacles is what defines us.
This week Clay and Sarah explore the idea of obstacles as the pathway to growth and new opportunities.
Within the “consensual hallucination of cyberspace” which we call the internet, a creative explosion is taking place. We have access to an immense range of audio-visual arts, stories, poetry, music…and new combinations of these. And the internet has also made it possible for us to create art in new ways and then share it with, literally, the WORLD. Read More
