Solving the greatest mysteries of the universe may hinge on deciphering intelligence—be it human, artificial, or extraterrestrial. Harvard astrophysicist and UAP/UFO field investigator, Avi Loeb, discusses an approaching future where we co-exist with super intelligent AI and a possible “cosmic neighbor” with the potential to enlighten us or conquer us. This video includes insights from developmental synthetic biologist Michael Levin (creator of Xenobots, the first AI designed bio-robots) and complexity scientists and origins of life researchers Stuart Kauffman and Joana Xavier, whose work could change our definition of “lyfe.”
We dig into the biases, barriers and blindspots in science and academia that hold back progress, and the mindsets that catalyze scientific revolutions.
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I’m Andrea Morris, an interdisciplinary researcher and science and tech journalist contributing 80+ stories to Forbes.com and a member of National Association of Science Writers (NASW.org). My passion is understanding creative intuition, consciousness and intelligence and all its complexity and whatever form it takes.
Variable minds is where I post interviews with sources, science explainers and in-progress investigative science reporting. These videos are sort of where podcasts meet documentaries. Podumentaries.
This channel intersects science, tech, art, and creativity. I talk to experts and investigate cognitive systems in humans, nonhumans, and AI, the hard problem of consciousness, and movements to hybridize with technology: transhumanism and the extended mind thesis (EMT).
I also cover research on the artistic mind, unique artistic expression, and the challenges to intelligent and creative anthropocentrism in the wake of generative art, large language models, novel synthetic organisms and exponential technology. At the core of this channel is a commitment to continual learning, holistic thinking (intelligent holism) and the joy of lifelong learning.
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You go girl
Extremadamente interesante, gracias por tu trabajo.
Andrea where have you been? Great to see a blue dot on your subscribed page. back with Loeb, looking forward to this
The absolute best edge science writer on the platform
Criminally underrated channel with a similar spirit to the Theories of Everything channel. It would be a good collab if you haven’t already.
Very well made and thought-provoking video! Thank very much. 🙏
I had heard controversial things about Avi Loeb’s research and I was watching this video with a overly skeptical attitude – in actual fact, I have only watched it because of your thorough prep and what felt like an open-minded and balanced line of inquiry shown in your previous videos.
This interview made me reconsider my initial bias over Avi Loeb’s points and now they feel more plausible.
Truly organic content from your channel.
at minute 23 writing about @.|. gaining intelligence without self-replicating
Thank you
1:03 –1:05 please everyone take note and make the change. Andrea and Avi Grateful to both of you, for pushing back. This Podcast is consistently and brilliantly put together.
(Thank you. Very interesting.)💎
Using AI to narrate
Is the universe a biologically alive single entity, self replicating, conscious and expanding. Mad ideas like this should have hundreds of millions spent on them, science money needs to be distributed differently. Avi Loeb should be in charge of that, turn scientific academia upside down. Many thing's spoken about in this video to delve into,
will happily take me forever.
💖 Humanity !!!
Great channel. Just found. Appears fairly new. Got a big name quick. Excellent and ty for its creation. Love Avi, been following his work since about a year before this last excursion. Peace
It's all about the corruption and who gets funding. These mechanisms need to be changed, maybe AI can help chart a course except for programing it shouldn't be biased or prejudiced.
every pod is missing knowledge leading to a fractured conclusion . Truth of it all is in plain sight, but scrambled . The clue is in the way they are attacked or mocked. discernment is effort which is. not prevalent in the viewing public. shame ….
P.S. No, it was Galileo's claim that he "knew" the solar system was heliocentric as proven truth, which actual "proof" came 150 years after Galileo's death!
The church had told him go ahead, teach the Copernican theory all you want, no problem. BUT he had no right to claim it was "true" … Which he refused to do, that got him in trouble. And they were right, he had no "proof"; besides the model was working less observationally correct, than the Ptolemaic model! With all its "fixes" of epi-cycles added over the centuries.
And the astronomers at the time were working with Aristotelian perfect circles in the heavens, lol. Whhhaaat, took more than a century to overturn that one, perfectly heavenly circular spheres…
AI has taken over … even for our visitors. lol
That was EXCELLENT. Omg. Thank you!