- Survival
- The Pain In Rain Is The Main
- Active Mentality
- Mental Activity
- SExtras
CQ: What’s a philosophical question you’ve yet to find a satisfactory answer for?
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- First World Problems
- Starring The Wars
- Inverted Expectation
- Extras
CQ: If some lessons can truly only be learned by encountering them in fiction, what stories should we tell to the AI to give them a better chance of turning out good?
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- Front Page
- Mind Your Please and Cues
- Why-Tech
CQ: Will the present-day cultures we identify ourselves with have any meaning once we have transitioned into an inter-planetary species — or will they mean even more?
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- Front Page
- Virtual Virtues
- Prosthetic Fallacy
- Universal Attraction
CQ: What’s one thing from today — a technology, an idiom, a cultural feature — that will survive to be recognizeable 5000 years from now — and what’s one thing that will almost make it, but not quite?
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- Front Page
- Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
- Man’s Beast Friends
- Extras
CQ: With the Internet making us globally connected, are we seeing an erosion of the concept of a “day” in favour of a “semi-random moment of synchronicity”?
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Show Notes for TWS115: Life Will Be What We Make It
On the show this week:
- DOOM is MOOD reversed
- Self-Deterministic Meat Machines
- _____ To A Different Tune
- Extra Appendages (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What is your swan song, memorial, legacy, remembrance?
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Show Notes for TWS114: Chemical Romance
On the show this week:
- Love ’em and Leave ’em
- Space is Big(-ish)
- Crazy Random Happenstance
- More Than You Know (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What is your “bathroom book”, your “throne text”, your “pausing perusing”? Or what *should* be?
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Show Notes for TWS099: Demonstrating My Lack Of Brain Power
On the show this week:
- Religioneering and Evoludicrous
- A Manner of Minding
- Can’t Stop (or Explain) The Firefly
- Miscellaneous Etcetera (EXTRA)
This week’s Challenge Question:
Are we (humanity) genetically (or otherwise) destined to be on top on this planet? Do we have to struggle to stay on top?
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Show Notes for TWS083: The World is Out To Get You (Sick)
A small personal note: this week I bid a sudden farewell to Chuck and Kreg of Technorama, on of my favourite
podcasts. They’ve decided to call it complete for the regular show, leaving me a bit in the lurch. I’ll survive, but it still hurts. I thank them both, and wish
them all the best in the future.
On the show this week:
- Life Will Go On..
- The birds and the bees do it: mysteries of sight unsound…
- Evilization?
- The other 90% of the show. (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What one things are you going to do to change the future for the better?
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