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The Smart Spin#129 Summary of God, Human, Animal, Machine: AI, Technology, and Meaning by Meghan O'GieblyIn this episode, we talk about Meghan O'Gieblyn's book, "God, Human, Animal, Machine," exploring the complex relationship between technology, humanity, and meaning. The speakers analyze how technology shapes our understanding of ourselves and the world, touching on topics like anthropomorphism, disenchantment, and the simulation hypothesis. The podcast also considers the potential downsides of technology, including algorithmic bias and the perpetuation of inequalities. Further explored are transhumanism, emergence, and the blurring lines between the real and virtual, which raises profound questions about consciousness and the human experience. Ultimately, the speakers emphasize the need for critical engagement with technology, urging listeners to b...2025-03-0519 min
Lectures and PerformancesPanel Discussion with Meghan O'Gieblyn2025-02-251h 38
Accidental GodsSolstice Cheer: Three Friends uphold a Podcasting Tradition with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda ScottThis is the fifth year of our traditional Winter Solstice podcast gathering in which Nathalie Nahai of 'In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai, Della Duncan of The Upstream Podcast and I sit around our virtual dark-nights fire to reflect on the podcasting year just gone and explore what has changed for us since the last time we three met in one place. By any measure, this year has been pretty turbulent and our capacity to predict anything at all for 2025 is fairly ragged, but that doesn't stop us from celebrating Della's news, and sharing the ways we find stability and m...2024-12-181h 28
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeDoes AI dream?AI can do amazing things – write your term papers, sequence your genes, maybe replace your therapist. But even super-intelligence has limits. So, does AI really have a mind — or a soul? We'll explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence — from robots painting masterpieces to software engineers trying to create god-like machines.Original Air Date: March 30, 2024Interviews In This Hour: Stop worrying about deepfakes — Does AI have a soul? — Can robots paint a masterpiece?Guests: Walter Scheirer, Meghan O’Gieblyn, Sougwen 愫君 ChungNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast....2024-11-3051 min
Howl in the WildernessA.I. Ain't Got No Soul...Or Does It? | Dylan Francisco PhD | HITW 158Howling about A.I., animism, post-humanism, James Hillman, creativity and soul making with Dylan Francisco, Co-Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute.If you’d like to gain access to early release of full, ad-free episodes and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness. We are an independent production and rely on the support of listeners like you. Make a one-time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoulShow Links:http://brianjames.cahttp://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork...2024-11-131h 31
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampUnabridged Interview: Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley
This is our unabridged interview with Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley.We live in an era of runaway design, where tech that seemed to solve our problems has gone on to cause unintended consequences. Think about social media’s effect on our collective mental health. Or the once miraculous material known as plastic becoming an environmental hazard. But we can’t predict the future, so what can we do?In this episode, designers from Stanford’s d.school, Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley, discuss their book “Assembling Tomorrow,” which thinks uniquely about design and offers ideas and practices...2024-10-081h 07
The Gray Area with Sean IllingIs AI creative?What is the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence? Creativity feels innately human, but is it? Can a machine be creative? Are we still being creative if we use machines to assist in our creative output?To help answer those questions, Sean speaks with Meghan O'Gieblyn, the author of the book "God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning." She and Sean discuss how the rise of AI is forcing us to reflect on what it means to be a creative being and whether our relationship to the written word has already been changed...2024-10-0741 min
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampCarissa Carter and Scott Doorley: Assembling Tomorrow
We live in an era of runaway design, where tech that once seemed to solve all of our problems has gone on to cause unintended consequences. Think about social media’s effect on our collective mental health. Or the once miraculous material known as plastic becoming an environmental hazard. But we can’t predict the future, so what can we do? In this episode, designers from Stanford’s d.school, Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley, discuss their book “Assembling Tomorrow,” which thinks quite uniquely about design and offers ideas and practices for building and engaging with technology in a way th...2024-10-0353 min
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampUnabridged Interview: Meghan O’Gieblyn
This is our unabridged interview with Meghan O’Gieblyn.Will technology change what it means to be human?Thanks to the rise and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the common sci-fi trope of a machine-perpetuated apocalypse has taken on a new gravity in recent days. But is Chat GPT really going to rebel against humans, or even change things very much at all?“We're at the point where we do have technologies that are incredibly powerful,” says writer and commentator Meghan O’Gieblyn. “They're able to do things that they weren't programmed to do.”2024-09-241h 10
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampMeghan O’Gieblyn: Technology and Humanity (Best of NSE)
Will technology change what it means to be human?Thanks to the rise and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the common sci-fi trope of a machine-perpetuated apocalypse has taken on a new gravity in recent days. But is Chat GPT really going to rebel against humans, or even change things very much at all?“We're at the point where we do have technologies that are incredibly powerful,” says writer and commentator Meghan O’Gieblyn. “They're able to do things that they weren't programmed to do.”In this episode, Meghan discusses AI in great detail, an...2024-09-1954 min
Garrison Keillor's PodcastThe critic who lit up my week and moreI’m still writing books but haven’t been reviewed by anybody in ages, maybe because I’m an Old White Male and our time is up, or maybe I’ve written too many books, and I’m okay with unreviewing — going way back to Veronica Geng’s caramel custard review of Lake Wobegon Days in the New York Times in 1985, the reviews have been warm and sweet, which is nice for the publisher but for me, the hardworking writer, are unremarkable, like a friend’s cat climbing into my lap: not the equivalent of good conversation. But O’Gieblyn’s essay is a brillia...2024-06-0808 min
The Nation PodcastsThe Religious Foundations of Transhumanism with Meghan O’Gieblyn | Tech Won't Save UsOn this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Meghan O’Gieblyn to discuss parallels between transhumanism and Christian narratives of resurrection, despite the fact many transhumanists identify as staunch atheists. Meghan O’Gieblyn is an advice columnist at Wired and the author of God, Human, Animal, Machine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2024-04-2556 min
Tech Won't Save UsThe Religious Foundations of Transhumanism w/ Meghan O’GieblynParis Marx is joined by Meghan O’Gieblyn to discuss parallels between transhumanism and Christian narratives of resurrection, despite the fact many transhumanists identify as staunch atheists. Meghan O’Gieblyn is an advice columnist at Wired and the author of God, Human, Animal, Machine.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transc...2024-04-2556 min
Curious Apes#17 - Meghan O'Gieblyn + Singularity: God, Human, Animal, & Machine** This is a partnership episode originally recorded in collaboration with Singularity **
This week our guest is Meghan O'Gieblyn, who has written regularly for entities such as Wired, The New York Times, and The Guardian, in addition to authoring books such as Interior States and her latest book: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning.
Interestingly, much of Meghan’s work pulls on her experience losing her faith in religion while simultaneously being drawn into transhumanism from reading the Age of Spiritual Machines by Singularity’s very own Ray Kurzweil. This exploration of Megha...2024-04-1453 min
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeDoes AI dream?AI can do amazing things – write your term papers, sequence your genes, maybe replace your therapist. But even super-intelligence has limits. So, does AI really have a mind — or a soul? We'll explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence — from robots painting masterpieces to software engineers trying to create god-like machines.
Original Air Date: March 30, 2024
Interviews In This Hour:
Stop worrying about deepfakes — Does AI have a soul? — Can robots paint a masterpiece?
Guests:
Walter Scheirer, Meghan O’Gieblyn, Sougwen 愫君 Chung
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Hidden ForcesAI, Transhumanism, and the Future of Humanity | Meghan O’GieblynIn Episode 349 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with author and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn, who writes on matters of philosophy and religion for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, and other publications. Meghan O'Gieblyn shares her personal journey growing up in a fundamentalist Christian community. She talks about the disillusionment she experienced upon leaving the faith, her forays into transhumanism and other alternative theories of consciousness, and what she thinks is really going on: what is the nature of reality, is consciousness fundamental to the universe, and what happens to us when we die? ...2024-01-1553 min
Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of TechData Science, Consent, Colonialism—What We Can Learn from the WoodsTech companies have access to an immense amount of data about each of us. How are we all being affected in a world where no one can be anonymous? Keisha McKenzie and Annanda Barclay talk to data scientist Scott Hendrickson, PhD, about data and consent, ways colonialism shows up in tech development, and more cooperative ethics we can learn from nature.
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No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampUnabridged Interview: Meghan O'Gieblyn
This is our unabridged interview with Meghan O’Gieblyn.Will technology change what it means to be human?Thanks to the rise and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the common sci-fi trope of a machine-perpetuated apocalypse has taken on a new gravity in recent days. But is Chat GPT really going to rebel against humans, or even change things very much at all?“We're at the point where we do have technologies that are incredibly powerful,” says writer and commentator Meghan O’Gieblyn. “They're able to do things that they weren't programmed to do.”2023-10-171h 10
No Small Endeavor with Lee C. CampMeghan O’Gieblyn: Technology and Humanity
Will technology change what it means to be human?Thanks to the rise and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the common sci-fi trope of a machine-perpetuated apocalypse has taken on a new gravity in recent days. But is Chat GPT really going to rebel against humans, or even change things very much at all?“We're at the point where we do have technologies that are incredibly powerful,” says writer and commentator Meghan O’Gieblyn. “They're able to do things that they weren't programmed to do.”In this episode, Meghan discusses AI in great detail, an...2023-10-1254 min
The Informed LifeKarl Fast on ReadingKarl Fast is an independent scholar, information architect, and futurist. He’s the co-author with Stephen Anderson of Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding. Karl is one of the most avid readers I know, and in this conversation, we compare our reading practices. We discussed this subject in preparation for a personal knowledge management workshop we will teach later this year.Show notesKarl Fast - LinkedInThe Informed Life episode 69 - Karl Fast on Interactionism, part 1The Informed Life episode 70 — Karl Fast on Interactionism, part 2Be Useful — Arnold Schwarzenegger on 7 Tools for Life, Thinking...2023-10-0843 min
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Technology and SecurityThe Christchurch Call, AI in art, elections and disinformation with Canva’s Kara HinesleyKara Hinesley, Canva’s global Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs, joins Dr Miah Hammond-Errey to discuss her experience during the creation of The Christchurch Call after the livestreamed 2019 terrorist attack in New Zealand while at Twitter, the complex relationship between AI, art and artists, AI and IP, AI regulation and the technology workforce shortages, as well as building robust civic discourse and debate on digital platforms. They also discuss, what differentiates Australian and American tech companies and culture, working to prevent online and offline harms and navigating a career shift from law into public policy and from th...2023-09-2138 min
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Poems & WhiskeyPeeping at Inspiration with Mara JebsenDemine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationMaui Mutual Aid Maui StrongMara is much smarter than I am but graciously, she does not mention it. We chat about words as family systems and ways to and through the cycles of inspiration. We touch on isolation and separation and what those viewpoints have brought to us. We also fail, as all other poets before us have failed, in describing the mystery that is what ever the hell we do when we are called to create. There is only one you...2023-09-131h 37
Door County Pulse PodcastTechnology and Religion with Meghan O'GieblynAuthor Meghan O'Gieblyn joins the podcast to discuss her book, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor and the Search for Meaning. She is one of the featured authors at the Washington Island Literary Festival, which takes place Sept. 21-23.2023-09-0648 min
SpeakingsAnalogizing Ourselves Into BeingWelcome to the Speakings podcast! My name is Sondra: I'm a writer, philosopher, and lover of (among other things) trees, artisan chocolate, old bookstores, and other human and non-human beings. Both my philosophical and creative projects explore ways of being-in-the-world that are more rational and more connected to the broader body of the earth. In this podcast, I hope to capture the dynamism of philosophical and spiritual thought by speaking in an unscripted manner, belonging to the moment as fully as possible. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for future topics, you can email me at sondra@sondrawriter...2023-07-3027 min
Magalies Potgooi[54] Boekklub: God, Mens, Masjien en Dier (met Afrikaans Vandag Podcast)Ons kuier met Afrikaans Vandag se Annemie en Carien en praat oor die boek "God, Human, Animal, Machine" geskryf deur Meghan O'Gieblyn.
Die boek ondesoek die verwantskap tussen menswees, geloof en tegnologie. Nuwe tegnologie soos Taal Modelle forseer ons om te dink oor wat dit is om 'n mens te wees.
Afrikaans Vandag: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/afrikaans-vandag-met-annemie/id15580796682023-07-121h 03
‘funny,’ not funny“He started with shoes.” | Lionel and Jim talk about Andy Warhol and SCOTUSJim and Lionel talk about the Andy Warhol case at the Supreme Court, discussing parody vs sampling, Two Live Crew, artists and inventors who began with a craft, graft, difficult listening hour, Meghan O'Gieblyn's book God, Human, Animal, Machine, The Book of Job, more stuff in The Bible, Calvinism, Jim's invitation to an LA premiere, the origins of The Flash, Carmine Infantino's view of Manhattan, and some upcoming ideas for new episodes.2023-06-011h 03The Gray Area with Sean IllingBeing human in the age of AIWill AI change what it means to be human? Sean Illing talks with essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of God, Human, Animal, Machine, a book about how the way we understand human nature has been interwoven with how we understand our own technology. They discuss the power of metaphor in describing fundamental aspects of being human, the "transhumanism" movement, and what we're after when we seek companionship in a chatbot.Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray AreaGuest: Meghan O'Gieblyn, essayist; authorReferences:
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search fo...2023-05-0853 min
The Ezra Klein ShowThe Culture Creating A.I. Is Weird. Here’s Why That Matters.In recent months, we’ve witnessed the rise of chatbots that can pass law and business school exams, artificial companions who’ve become best friends and lovers and music generators that produce remarkably humanlike songs. It’s hard to know how to process it all. But if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s this: The future — shaped by technologies like artificial intelligence — is going to be profoundly weird. It’s going to look, feel and function differently from the world we have grown to recognize.How do we learn to navigate — even embrace — the weirdness of the world...2023-05-021h 05
Squiz TodaySaturday Squiz, 22 April 2023: Eclipse wonders, a big payout for Fox News, and taco talkThis week, Alex joins Claire to chat about the solar eclipse, a messy (political) desk and some big court decisions to keep your eye on. Plus, a couple of AI-themed recommendations and some very tasty tacos.LINKSMore than 20,000 people trekked out to watch the solar eclipseCheck out a whole bunch of AI cover tracksGod, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'GieblynYou can watch Class of '07 on Amazon PrimeCook these pulled pork carnitas. And for the herbivores, these Ottolenghi oyster...2023-04-2118 min
Hard ForkA.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone PositivityThe New York Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein has spent years talking to artificial intelligence researchers. Many of them feel the prospect of A.I. discovery is too sweet to ignore, regardless of the technology’s risks.Today, Mr. Klein discusses the profound changes that an A.I.-powered world will create, how current business models are failing to meet the A.I. moment, and the steps government can take to achieve a positive A.I. future.Also, radical acceptance of your phone addiction may just help your phone addiction.On today’s epis...2023-04-071h 03The Ezra Klein ShowWhy A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the EconomyTypically when we put out a call for audience questions, there’s no single topic that dominates. This time was different. The questions we received were overwhelmingly focused on artificial intelligence: Do A.I. systems pose an existential threat to humanity? Will robots take our jobs? How could these machines potentially make our lives — and the lives of our children — better?So I asked the show’s senior editor, Roge Karma, to join me to talk through them. We also discuss my mixed feelings about the calls to “pause” A.I. development, why I’m less worried about rogue A...2023-04-071h 03
Mind-Body Archives - C. G. Jung Institute of ChicagoJung in the World | Technology and The Self: Exploring the Hidden Impact with Meghan O’Gieblyn
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What is the impact of technology on the psyche? Author and Wired Magazine columnist Meghan O’Gieblyn talks with host Patricia Martin about consciousness and the self in the machine age, and the implications for living a meaningful life.
Meghan O’Gieblyn writes about spirituality and technology and is the author of God, Human, Animal, Machine (2021) and Interior States (2018), which won the 2018 Believer Book Award for nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Wired, The Guardian, The New York Times, Bookforum, n+1, The Believer, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipien...2023-02-1543 min
Self and Self-Psychology Archives - C. G. Jung Institute of ChicagoJung in the World | Technology and The Self: Exploring the Hidden Impact with Meghan O’Gieblyn
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What is the impact of technology on the psyche? Author and Wired Magazine columnist Meghan O’Gieblyn talks with host Patricia Martin about consciousness and the self in the machine age, and the implications for living a meaningful life.
Meghan O’Gieblyn writes about spirituality and technology and is the author of God, Human, Animal, Machine (2021) and Interior States (2018), which won the 2018 Believer Book Award for nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Wired, The Guardian, The New York Times, Bookforum, n+1, The Believer, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipien...2023-02-1500 min
ExvangelicalFrom the Archive: God, Human, Animal, Machine with author Meghan O'GieblynListeners, come see me w/ Brad Onishi of Straight White American Jesus & Tim Whitaker of The New Evangelicals in Philly on 2/11/23! Get tickets here and use code 50 at checkout to get 50% off!It's an archival episode!In September 2021, I spoke with Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of the new book God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. We talked about her time at Moody Bible Institute, experiencing 9/11 on a Christian campus, the similarities between Christian prophecy & secular transhumanism, and all sorts of other great things.Buy Meghan's book on Bookshop.org...2023-01-261h 03
New Books in Science, Technology, and SocietySpiritual Machines: Transhumanism and ReligionEver since early scientists began experimenting with immortality elixirs in the middle ages, religion has been influencing transhumanism. Now, we’re beginning to see transhumanism influencing religion.Guests
Calvin Mercer, Professor of Religious Studies at East Carolina University
Meghan O’Gieblyn, writer
Blaire Ostler, Director and Former President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society2023-01-1930 min
New Books in TechnologySpiritual Machines: Transhumanism and ReligionEver since early scientists began experimenting with immortality elixirs in the middle ages, religion has been influencing transhumanism. Now, we’re beginning to see transhumanism influencing religion.Guests
Calvin Mercer, Professor of Religious Studies at East Carolina University
Meghan O’Gieblyn, writer
Blaire Ostler, Director and Former President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology2023-01-1930 min
New Books in ReligionSpiritual Machines: Transhumanism and ReligionEver since early scientists began experimenting with immortality elixirs in the middle ages, religion has been influencing transhumanism. Now, we’re beginning to see transhumanism influencing religion.Guests
Calvin Mercer, Professor of Religious Studies at East Carolina University
Meghan O’Gieblyn, writer
Blaire Ostler, Director and Former President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion2023-01-1930 min
Ministry of IdeasSpiritual MachinesEver since early scientists began experimenting with immortality elixirs in the middle ages, religion has been influencing transhumanism. Now, we’re beginning to see transhumanism influencing religion.Guests
Calvin Mercer, Professor of Religious Studies at East Carolina University
Meghan O’Gieblyn, writer
Blaire Ostler, Director and Former President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2023-01-1930 min
On the MediaSalvation Through Technology?Human aspirations for technology are vast. One day, maybe we'll develop technologies that cure cancer. Rid us of viruses. Perhaps fix that pesky climate change. Even, deliver us from death altogether.... But is the increasing belief in salvation through technology just religion in new clothes? Meghan O'Gieblyn is the author of the book God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. In the fall of 2021 Brooke spoke to O'Gieblyn about the shared assumptions of Christian creationists and transhumanist tech leaders, the flawed metaphor of the mind as a computer, and the relationships of humans to the machines...2023-01-1817 min
Device & VirtueConscious Robot Dogs And God’s Sovereignty—With Wired Columnist Meghan O'GieblynIs a computer actually like the human brain? And is God’s wisdom as mysterious as an AI’s black box? We host Wired columnist Meghan O’Gieblyn with fascinating conversation through sentience, suffering, God’s sovereignty—and of course, AI robotic dogs.Meghan O'Gieblyn is the author of God Human Animal Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. Her previous essay collection Interior States, won the Believer Book Award for nonfiction. She writes essays and criticism for Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and Bookforum. Her writing has received three Pushcart P...2022-08-091h 04
Dumb DiveGod Human Animal MachinePranav tells us the story of his adventures being a bartender for a farmer's convention in rural UK and the pros of getting into the gig economy. For the core of the discussion, Arvind brings up ideas from the book "God, Human, Animal, Machine" by Meghan O'Gieblyn regarding intelligence, consciousness and how we interact with increasingly intelligent robots and machines.Linksaibo (robot dog)What Is It Like To Be A Bat?Chiropterology (BATS) with Dr. Merlin Tuttle [Ologies podcast]Jumping SpidersLove Death Robots S1E14 Spoiler Alert : 00:55:53 - 00:58:36Is LaMDA Sentient? - Blake...2022-08-071h 25
The Singularity Discussion SeriesFBL54: Meghan O'Gieblyn - God, Human, Animal, & MachineThis week our guest is Meghan O'Gieblyn, who has written regularly for entities such as Wired, The New York Times, and The Guardian, in addition to authoring books such as Interior States and her latest book: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning.
Interestingly, much of Meghan’s work pulls on her experience losing her faith in religion while simultaneously being drawn into transhumanism from reading the Age of Spiritual Machines by Singularity’s very own Ray Kurzweil. This exploration of Meghan's background and her latest book takes us on a journey through the...2022-05-0955 min
The Book XChange PodcastEpisode 48: Giving Essays A TryIn the 16th century, Michel de Montaigne created a new form of literary self-expression. He called these short pieces "essays," from the French verb "essayer" - "to try." In Episode 48 of everyone's favorite literary podcast hosted by genetic duplicates, Jude and John "try" to explain the appeal of essays to them, and why they find it to be one of the most satisfying and thought-provoking of all literary forms. We then go on to recommend some of our personal favorite collections and writers of essays, which ones we badly want to read and just haven't gotten to, and which...2022-04-111h 56
Book SocietyMeghan O'Gieblyn - God, Human, Animal, MachineMeghan and I talk about metaphors, living and dead ones. And about how modern tech philosophers and 3rd century church fathers basically make the same arguments.Buy Meghan's Book:https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385543828Read Meghan's Column in Wired:https://www.wired.com/author/meghan-ogieblyn/More Meghan Essays (on her website):http://www.meghanogieblyn.com/writing-1Here's The Gift I Sent Meghan's Husband:https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-CloudValley-Ultra-Thin-MacBook-Protect/dp/B079MCPJGH/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=23VCXWJLSKJ1V&keywords=laptop+camera+cover&qid=1646256394&sprefix=laptop+camera+cover%2Caps%2C...2022-03-0423 min
Book SocietyMeghan O'Gieblyn - The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind, By Julian JaynesMeghan and I go down a rabbit hole about the nature of consciousness, and the brilliant but maybe slightly conspiratorial thinking of Julian Jaynes. This is a good one. Buy Meghan's Book:https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385543828Buy The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mindhttps://www.amazon.com/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicameral-Mind/dp/0618057072/ref=asc_df_0618057072/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312674999652&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3062671179531381137&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9031144&hvtargid=pla-465283667891&psc=1Read Meghan's Column in Wired:https://www.wired.com/author/meghan-ogieblyn/2022-02-2535 min
Vita Poetica JournalFinding Meaning in Modernity by Cheryl SadowskiCheryl Sadowski reads her book reviews, "Finding Meaning in Modernity: Two Books about Quest." She reflects on the books Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey & Jenna Silber Storey and God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O’Gieblyn.
Cheryl Sadowski writes essays and reviews from Northern Virginia, where she works in nonprofit management. Her writing explores the plain weave of everyday life with philosophy, art, literature, and the natural world. Cheryl's work has appeared in The Broadkill Review, EcoTheo, After the Art, and the Ba...2022-02-2212 min
The MockingcastEpisode 224: The Least Pleasurable SinIn which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk porch pirates, fading friendships, trivialized trauma, and hopeful humor. Also, God works through a robot vacuum cleaner.
Click here to read Meghan O'Gieblyn's answer to the question "Do Good Doorbell Cams Make Good Neighbors?" in Wired
Click here to read Jennifer Senior's essay on "It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart" in The Atlantic.
Click here to read Lexi Pandell's column on "How 'Trauma' Became the Word of the Decade" in Vox
Click here to watch Stephen Colbert's surprising response to Dua Lipa's question about humor and faith.
For more...2022-02-151h 08
The Convivial Society"Dream of Virtual Reality" Audio Version AND Some Links For Your ConsiderationAs promised, here is the audio version of the last installment, “The Dream of Virtual Reality.” To those of you who find the audio version helpful, thank you for your patience! And while I’m at it, let me pass along a few links, a couple of which are directly related to this installment. LinksJust after I initially posted “The Dream of Virtual Reality,” Evan Selinger reached out with a link to his interview of David Chalmers about Reality+. I confess to thinking that I might have been a bit uncharitable in taking Cha...2022-01-2820 min
taz vorgelesen CommunityRoboterhund Aibotaz am wochenende, 08./09.01.2022; gesellschaft; „Wann ist ein Hund ein Hund? Die Schöpfer des Roboterhundes Aibo behaupten, er habe echte Gefühle und Instinkte. Das klingt ziemlich übertrieben. Aber ist es das? In der Welt der künstlichen Intelligenz stellen sich die großen Fragen nach Wesen, Willen und Bewusstsein noch mal neu.“ Von Meghan O‘Gieblyn
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/taz-vorgelesen-community/message2022-01-0834 min
The Harper’s PodcastRoutine MaintenanceThis year, resolve to think differently about habit. Meghan O’Gieblyn, author of God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning, discusses the spiritual, cognitive, and creative benefits of embracing routine in an increasingly automated world. O’Gieblyn dispenses with narrow notions of life hacking and argues that habits can free us from rigid algorithms to create space for contemplation. Routine doesn’t have to mean killing all spontaneity, but instead can function as a bulwark against mindlessness.2022-01-0339 min
The Book XChange PodcastEpisode 42: The BXC’s Best Books of 2021For our final episode of 2021, we decide to broaden out a personal tradition and share it with listeners... we each share our 10 favorite reading experiences of the year, and discuss why these books made a lasting mark on us. Our choices are not at all limited to books that came out in 2021, but could be any book of any genre from any year. These books were "buried in our heads like a stinger" (to borrow from Flannery O'Connor) and just would not let go, no matter what else we might have consumed. We want to offer a sincere THANK...2021-12-191h 54
The Book XChange PodcastEpisode 41: WORLD WAR IIFor episode 41 (commemorating, in part, the 80th anniversary of the United States' entry into the war in December 1941), the Book XChange brothers take on a subject that's as broad and wide-reaching as the conflict itself: World War II. As always, we aim here to provide some recommendations of books that aren't widely discussed and read, as well as cover some of the acknowledged classics. It's a huge subject and we did our best to cover a wide variety of titles that might speak to a broad expanse of interests. Thanks for listening!
MUSIC BY YOUNG WOLF, VOIDZ...2021-12-051h 53
On the MediaAgainst the MachineHave you been wondering exactly what it means to Build Back Better? On this week’s On the Media, hear why political coverage seems to address everything about Joe Biden’s bill--except what’s in it. Plus, find out if social media really does turn nice people into trolls.
1. Andrew Prokop [@awprokop], Senior Politics Correspondent at Vox, on the gap between political coverage of the Build Back Better Act, and what the bill actually says. Listen.
2. Michael Bang Petersen [@M_B_Petersen], political science professor at Aarhus University, on the difference (or lack thereof) between on and offline...2021-10-1550 min
ExvangelicalMeghan O'Gieblyn, author of "God, Human, Animal, Machine"On 9/9/21, I spoke with Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of the new book God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. We talked about her time at Moody Bible Institute, experiencing 9/11 on a Christian campus, the similarities between Christian prophecy & secular transhumanism, and all sorts of other great things.Buy Meghan's book on Bookshop.org or at your local independent bookstore. (Yes, that is an affiliate link, and it helps the show). Follow Meghan on Twitter.Support the show directly via a subscription to The Post-Evangelical Post newsletter. Follow Blake on Twitter, Instagram, or...2021-09-2459 min
News Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsGod, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'gieblynPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning Author: Meghan O'gieblyn Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • 'At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to th...2021-08-2410 minThe MockingcastEpisode 193: Those Upgrades Can WaitIn which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk school reopenings, comparative suffering, digital hygiene, and the crisis of capacity. Also, RJ decides to invest in some outdated (but comfortable!) furniture.
Click here to read Your School District's Reopening Survey on McSweeney's.
Click here to read Zadie Smith's thoughts on "Suffering Like Mel Gibson"--and see the meme we mention.
Click here to read Meghan O'Gieblyn's response on Wired to the question of "Why Do I Keep Refusing to Install OS Updates?"
Click here to watch Giles Fraser's talk on "Christianity and Morality: The Story of an Uneasy Relationship."
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You're BookedDaniel Gumbiner - You're BookedThis week we're visiting the beautiful Bay Area and popping into the home of Daniel Gumbiner! Daniel is the author of the National Book Award and California Book Award nominated novel The Boatbuilder and is the managing editor of The Believer magazine. We talked to him about Swallows and Amazons, nature, EB White and living in Las Vegas.BOOKSDaisy Buchanan - The SisterhoodDaniel Gumbiner - The BoatbuilderArthur Clayton Smith - Natural History of the San Francisco Bay RegionR Tucker Abbot - Field Identification Seashells of...2020-02-1751 min
Podcast proConf#48 The Conference 2019 - Трансгуманизм | Нейронки в дизайне | Паспорт царя | Обычное невозможноеТаймкоды:
05:00 - Jonas Hedman – The Future Is Smart Money ( https://youtu.be/DAB7MY-Aq0o )
10:50 - Meghan O'Gieblyn – God in the machine ( https://youtu.be/hTXleWp5fUA )
20:40 - Nicole He – Say my name, say my name ( https://youtu.be/JqjKNKp17n8 )
26:26 - Daniel Padgett – Say my name, say my name ( https://youtu.be/H6kz0CATPak )
33:00 - Che-Wei Wang – When Design Gets Swallowed by Engineering ( https://youtu.be/8_nTMX6d1IY )
39:45 - Anna Åhnberg – Under measure – measuring what matters ( https://youtu.be/JYTeDnl9dBY )
49:10 - Dr. James Beacham – What's outside the universe? ( https://youtu.be/GxghuChsQPo )
56:40 - Kris De Decker - Look back, move forward...2020-02-071h 26
JourneyWithJesus.net PodcastJwJ: Sunday June 2, 2019Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Debie Thomas. Essay by Debie Thomas: *On Behalf of Everyone* for Sunday, 2 June 2019; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Interior States* by Meghan O'Gieblyn (2018); film review by Dan Clendenin: *End Game* (2018); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *I Pray for Thee a Joyous Life* (Celtic prayer).2019-05-2611 minThe MockingcastEpisode 149: Called Out!In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk punk-rock piety, fake meat, and hungry children. Also, in Texas queso counts as a protein. Articles discussed include:
"The Moral Indecency of the Away Message" by David Brooks via the New York Times
"Objects of Despair: Fake Meat" by Meghan O’Gieblyn via The Paris Review
"I’m a Little Too Fat, a Little Too Giving. I Think I Know Why." by Kristine Levine via Medium
2019-02-0944 min
The Commonweal PodcastKatherine Lucky with Meghan O'GieblynMeghan O'Gieblyn is the author of Interior States, a new collection of essays on topics like living in what some call "flyover country," contemporary Christian music, and the concept of "hell" and how it is marketed to the masses. Her collection is being hailed by writers such as Lorrie Moore and Daphne Merken; here, Meghan talks about her work and background with managing editor Katherine Lucky. 2018-11-1028 min
Eye 94Eye 94 • 11-18-18This episode featured author Meghan O’Gieblyn, whose book of essays, Interior States, is out now from Penguin Random House. This episode first aired on November 18, 2018.2018-11-0458 min
The Commonweal PodcastSynod 2018, writers Emily Ruskovich and Meghan O'Gieblyn, and Derek Jeffreys on America's JailsThis episode features a conversation between Meghan O'Gieblyn and Katherine Lucky, a pair of young writers whose essays on the life of faith are already receiving acclaim. Editor Dominic Preziosi and Assistant Editor Griffin Oleynick discuss his coverage from the 2018 Synod on Young People at the Vatican. Contributor Anthony Domestico talks to Emily Ruskovich about her 2017 debut novel. And Derek Jeffreys discusses his new book, America's Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration. 2018-11-0259 min
Otherppl with Brad Listi548. Meghan O'GieblynMeghan O'Gieblyn is the author of the essay collection INTERIOR STATES (Anchor Books). It is the official October pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. O'Gieblyn's essays have appeared in Harper's Magazine, n+1, the New York Times, The Guardian, Oxford American, Ploughshares, newyorker.com, The Point and Tin House, and have been included in the Pushcart Prize anthologies and in The Best American Essays 2017. She lives in Wisconsin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-10-241h 41
Immerse Yourself In This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook — Perfect Before Bedtime.Interior States by Meghan O'GieblynPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/36866to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Interior States
Author: Meghan O'Gieblyn
Narrator: Rebecca Lowman
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
Release date: 10-09-18
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 29 ratings
Genres: Essays
Publisher's Summary:
The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country". She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still", and that rich...2018-10-097h 42
All the Books!New Releases and More for October 9, 2018This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witch Elm, All You Can Ever Know, Bitter Orange, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by Under My Skin by Lisa Unger, What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, and Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land. And get personalized book recommendations at TBR.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy t...2018-10-0940 min
Stream Popular Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsInterior States: Essays by Meghan O'gieblynPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Interior States: Essays Author: Meghan O'gieblyn Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 9, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction 'Meghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection.' --Lorrie Moore A fresh, acute, and even profound collection that centers around two core (and related) issues of American identity: faith, in general and the...2018-10-0910 min
For Real#8 The Nonfiction of Book ExpoThis week, Kim and Alice do a recap of some of the best nonfiction of Book Expo America, the publishing industry's big trade show each spring.This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated and Recommended podcasts. Give them a listen! And don’t forget that Book Riot is giving away a $500 gift card to the bookstore of your choice. Go to bookriot.com/bookstore500 before June 21 to enter.FOLLOW UPLocking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.Dear Madam President by Jennifer PalmeriBomb...2018-06-1257 min
Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution6. Beyond Human?With advances in genetic engineering, neuroscience, pharmaceuticals and prosthetics, are we poised to enter a ‘post-human’ era? Will we jettison the limits nature imposed, even up to mortality itself? If so, to what end? Who will have access to these powerful tools, and what will become of those that do not? For episode 6 of ‘Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, we enter an ethical minefield with Rob Sparrow of Monash University, Melbourne; James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies; Nita Farahany, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University; Aldo Faisal, Senior Lecturer in Neurotechnology at Imper...2018-02-0631 min
The Christian Transhumanist PodcastEp 34: Meghan O'Gieblyn's Strange Journey into TranshumanismMeghan O'Gieblyn lost her faith—and found transhumanism. Then she realized that those two things weren't quite as far apart as she first believed. Relevant links:
N+1: Ghost in the Cloud—transhumanism's Simulation Theology
Guardian: God in the Machine—my strange journey into transhumanism (shorter version of above)
Megan O'Gieblyn's Hell
Megan's website
Important thought:
The loss of faith is a loss of narrative, of history. Transhumanism, like Christianity, is the embrace of history's dramatic significance.
Pull quote:
“But people who’ve gotten tha...2017-06-2516 min