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171 - Eric Wargo on Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time Travel
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This week we welcome back anthropologist and science writer Eric Wargo, for a conversation about his book Precognitive Dreamwork and The Long Self â as well as: how tautology (not paradox) rules a time travel universe, what it means to become a time-faring species, the future of precognitive technologies, the concern of a quantum computing financial singularity, why lying to yourself about your own future-sight might be of evolutionary benefit, why retrocausalists donât believe in randomness, how culture is a tesseract and dreams are future fossils, the controversy of divinatory astrology, and how pre-shocks of future traumas explain some of the more puzzling facts of history.
⨠Housekeeping:
If you value this show and would like to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and/or please leave a good review on Apple Podcasts! As a patron you get two extra episodes a month, invites to our book club, and new writing, art, and music.
⢠Meet great people and have equally great conversations in the Discord Server & Facebook Group
⢠Buy the books we talk about from the Future Fossils shop at Bookshop.org
⢠Intro music: âOlympus Monsâ by Michael Garfield | Outro music: âOtolithâ by Skytree
⢠For when youâd rather listen to music than conversation, follow me and my listening recommendations on Spotify.
⢠Thanks to Naomi Most for helping edit the first half of this episode! It isnât easy work.
If you like thinking about mind-expanding future technologies, I recommend you check out David Kelleyâs WeFunder for a new human-AI symbiosis governance system that seems like it could shake things up in a good way. If you know people who like to fund tech projects, this one seems worth checking out. (Davidâs Transhumanity.net is a supporter of the show.)
⨠Support the countless hours of research and production that go into Future Fossils:
⢠Venmo: @futurefossils
⢠Patreon: patreon.com//michaelgarfield
⢠BTC: 1At2LQbkQmgDugkchkP6QkDJCvJ5rv3Jm
⢠ETH: 0xfD2BC66586FA4FBA189992E9B0037CD5cb9673EF
⢠NFTs: Rarible | Foundation
⨠Discussed:
⢠Listening
FF 124 with Norman âDr. Blueâ Katz
FF 150 with Sean EsbjĂśrn-Hargens
Complexity Episode 9 with Mirta Galesic
⢠Reading
NPR - Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible, Researchers Say
Nautilus - This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible
Johnjoe McFadden - Quantum Evolution
Jonathan Zap - Crossing The Event Horizon
Jacques Vallee - The Invisible College
Ted Chiang - Stories of your Life and Others
Ted Chiang - Exhalation
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects
Russell Targ & Jean Houston - Limitless Mind
Jessica Flack - âCoarse-Graining as a Downward Causation Mechanismâ
⨠Affiliate Links:
⢠I transcribe this show with help from Podscribe.ai â which I highly recommend to other podcasters. (If youâd like to help edit transcripts for the Future Fossils book project, please email or DM me: Email | Twitter | Instagram)
⢠BioTech Life Sciences makes anti-aging and performance enhancement formulas that work directly at the level of cellular nutrition, both for ingestion and direct topical application. Iâm a firm believer in keeping NAD+ levels up and their skin solution helped me erase a year of pandemic burnout from my face.
⢠Help regulate stress, get better sleep, recover from exercise, and/or stay alert and focused without stimulants, with the Apollo Neuro wearable. I have one and while I donât wear it all the time, when I do itâs sober healthy drugs.
⢠Musicians: let me recommend you get yourself a Jamstik Studio, the coolest MIDI guitar Iâve ever played. I LOVE mine. You can hear it playing all the synths on my new single. Get bonus content on Patreon
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
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Manage episode 298482266 series 2407639
This week we welcome back anthropologist and science writer Eric Wargo, for a conversation about his book Precognitive Dreamwork and The Long Self â as well as: how tautology (not paradox) rules a time travel universe, what it means to become a time-faring species, the future of precognitive technologies, the concern of a quantum computing financial singularity, why lying to yourself about your own future-sight might be of evolutionary benefit, why retrocausalists donât believe in randomness, how culture is a tesseract and dreams are future fossils, the controversy of divinatory astrology, and how pre-shocks of future traumas explain some of the more puzzling facts of history.
⨠Housekeeping:
If you value this show and would like to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and/or please leave a good review on Apple Podcasts! As a patron you get two extra episodes a month, invites to our book club, and new writing, art, and music.
⢠Meet great people and have equally great conversations in the Discord Server & Facebook Group
⢠Buy the books we talk about from the Future Fossils shop at Bookshop.org
⢠Intro music: âOlympus Monsâ by Michael Garfield | Outro music: âOtolithâ by Skytree
⢠For when youâd rather listen to music than conversation, follow me and my listening recommendations on Spotify.
⢠Thanks to Naomi Most for helping edit the first half of this episode! It isnât easy work.
If you like thinking about mind-expanding future technologies, I recommend you check out David Kelleyâs WeFunder for a new human-AI symbiosis governance system that seems like it could shake things up in a good way. If you know people who like to fund tech projects, this one seems worth checking out. (Davidâs Transhumanity.net is a supporter of the show.)
⨠Support the countless hours of research and production that go into Future Fossils:
⢠Venmo: @futurefossils
⢠Patreon: patreon.com//michaelgarfield
⢠BTC: 1At2LQbkQmgDugkchkP6QkDJCvJ5rv3Jm
⢠ETH: 0xfD2BC66586FA4FBA189992E9B0037CD5cb9673EF
⢠NFTs: Rarible | Foundation
⨠Discussed:
⢠Listening
FF 124 with Norman âDr. Blueâ Katz
FF 150 with Sean EsbjĂśrn-Hargens
Complexity Episode 9 with Mirta Galesic
⢠Reading
NPR - Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible, Researchers Say
Nautilus - This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible
Johnjoe McFadden - Quantum Evolution
Jonathan Zap - Crossing The Event Horizon
Jacques Vallee - The Invisible College
Ted Chiang - Stories of your Life and Others
Ted Chiang - Exhalation
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects
Russell Targ & Jean Houston - Limitless Mind
Jessica Flack - âCoarse-Graining as a Downward Causation Mechanismâ
⨠Affiliate Links:
⢠I transcribe this show with help from Podscribe.ai â which I highly recommend to other podcasters. (If youâd like to help edit transcripts for the Future Fossils book project, please email or DM me: Email | Twitter | Instagram)
⢠BioTech Life Sciences makes anti-aging and performance enhancement formulas that work directly at the level of cellular nutrition, both for ingestion and direct topical application. Iâm a firm believer in keeping NAD+ levels up and their skin solution helped me erase a year of pandemic burnout from my face.
⢠Help regulate stress, get better sleep, recover from exercise, and/or stay alert and focused without stimulants, with the Apollo Neuro wearable. I have one and while I donât wear it all the time, when I do itâs sober healthy drugs.
⢠Musicians: let me recommend you get yourself a Jamstik Studio, the coolest MIDI guitar Iâve ever played. I LOVE mine. You can hear it playing all the synths on my new single. Get bonus content on Patreon
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
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