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Adam Neely, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

I am thrilled to have you here because I've, I spend all of my life talking about philosophy and theology, and that's great.

But at the same time, I feel like the whole purpose of something like philosophy is that it's supposed to be applied to stuff.

And so constantly, throughout my episodes, I'm talking about particular issues.

I'm talking about AI. I'm talking about art. I'm talking about art. I'm talking about

music. I'm talking about beauty, talking about truth. And I think this tends to get a little

bit too abstracted if you don't sort of speak about some of the specifics. I've been watching your

content for a very long time. And you talk about the way that music works, what makes it work,

different ways of thinking about music and music theory.

And most recently, a pretty deep dive into the potential threats posed to music, not just as

an industry, but also as a creative art form from artificial intelligence. So people might

be surprised to see your face show up on a podcast like this, but I think it makes perfect

sense, and I'm really grateful that you're here. Yeah, I'm so happy to be here. You know, music is my profession,

the thing, my avocation, but I'm an amateur philosopher, amateur lover of theology and beauty

and art. And, you know, I think AI is one of the most important technological innovations of the past century,

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