In this episode, the three co-hosts describe their very different concepts of utopia.
Episode notes:
Mormon Utopia
Is modern society the past’s utopia?
What is consciousness?
Do any two people imagine the same utopia?
Ray’s utopia: all people become one unified energy outside of time
Matryoshka Brain
Static vs. dynamic world
Luis’s utopia of work and leisure as choices
Is a utopia a perfect world, and if so, can imperfect people live in it?
Are we capable of imagining a true utopia?
Will we overcome mortality, or at least aging?
What are you willing to give up to achieve utopia?
Forms of government
Commercial: Utopios
Utopia in pop culture: Star Trek
Death in utopia
Are we already living in a utopia?
Moral agency
AI of the future