The Jim Rutt Show

EP 346 Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It

EP 345 Worldviews: Tyson Yunkaporta on Ceremony, Skepticism, and Seeing in 3D

EP 344 Lisa Buckingham on Hiring for the AI Era

EP 343 Worldviews: Peter Wang on the Metaphysics of Quality, Sucker’s Bets, and Ofness

EP 342 Worldviews: Jordan Hall on Reality as Relationship and Why the Dead Are Still With Us

Worldview construction centers on the interplay between consciousness, reality, and the transcendent. Jordan Hall posits that the soul functions as the essential ligature connecting the infinite and the finite, enabling participation in reality through meaning rather than mere causal existence. This perspective shifts ...

EP 341 Worldviews: Bonnitta Roy on Post-Formal Actors, Stage Theory, and the Character Void in Leadership

EP 340 Worldviews: Liv Boeree on Poker, Moloch, and the Art of Finding Win-Wins

Science communicator and former professional poker player Liv Boeree maps the scaffolding of her worldview, navigating the intersection of consciousness, game theory, and societal ethics. Consciousness functions as a "radio tuner" interface, contrasting emergent biological models with panpsychic theories. Poker serves ...

EP 339 John Krakauer on Why Neuroscience Needs Behavior

EP 338 Jeff Giesea on Dionysian Futurism, Reading Great Books in the AI Era, and Rebalancing Generational Power

EP 337 Philip Rosedale on Emergent Worlds, Localism, and What Building Second Life Taught Him About Humanity

EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance

EP 335 Worldviews: Samantha Sweetwater

Human existence functions as a dynamic set of verbs and relationships rather than static, noun-based identities. This worldview frames the current metacrisis as a fundamental crisis of separation, where humanity has artificially distanced itself from ecological and social entanglements through dominator ideologies and ...

EP 334 Worldviews: Joscha Bach

Consciousness functions as a second-order perception, a simulation of the self that creates a coherent vantage point for navigating reality. Unlike intelligence, which involves model-building for control, consciousness acts as a consensus algorithm, integrating distributed neural signals into a unified experience. Real...

EP 333 Worldviews: Iain McGilchrist

Consciousness serves as the fundamental basis of reality, with matter acting as a specific phase of this broader field. This perspective rejects the reductionist view that consciousness emerges from inert matter, instead positioning it as an ontological primitive. Human experience is shaped by the interplay between the...

EP 332 Worldviews: Jim Rutt

EP 331 Worldviews: Michael Shermer

EP 330 Worldviews: Ben Goertzel

EP 329 Worldviews: David Krakauer

EP 328 Brendan Graham Dempsey Interviews Jim Rutt on Minimum Viable Metaphysics

EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All