Episode 493: The Ripple Effect Podcast (Alex Tsakiris | The Rise of A.I.: Science & Spirituality)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Alex Tsakiris is best known as the founder and host of Skeptiko, a popular podcast that explores the intersection of science and spirituality. With a background combining a strong technical background information systems and artificial intelligence along with a scientific curiosity and a deep interest in spirituality, Alex Tsakiris has become a significant voice in debates surrounding the nature of consciousness and its relation to the physical world. Alex is also a best selling author who's work includes WHY SCIENCE IS WRONG...: About Almost Everything, and Why Evil Matters: How Science & Religion Fumbled a Big One.
ALEX TSAKIRIS:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple effect. |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact. I'm gonna' I'm gonna I'm |
| 0:38.3 | I'm |
| 0:39.3 | Avaughan What's up, what's up, another episode, Riplefect podcast. |
| 1:13.1 | Of course, I'm your host, Ricard Lendez, also knows Ricky Vrans. |
| 1:16.0 | And a great episode for you today. |
| 1:17.4 | Today, we have returning guests and somewhat regular on the Union of the Unwanted. |
| 1:21.7 | We have the hosts of Skeptico podcast, Alex Tiscarious, and he's also an author, entrepreneur, researcher, thinker, philosopher, |
| 1:31.1 | and always one of the most interesting people I get the privilege to sit down and bounce ideas off |
| 1:36.6 | and talk to. But before we get into this very fascinating conversation about AI, spirituality, |
| 1:41.9 | and much more, I have to remind you, this is a value for value show. We get some value out of these interesting guests that I bring to you and what I hope are thought-provoking conversations. Please consider giving some value back. It doesn't have to be financial. Like I always remind you, you can rate the show, review the show, subscribe to the show, and all the platforms we're on. You can find all those links on our website, ripple effectpodcast.com or in the show description. But if you can support the show financially, there's tons of ways of doing it. Of course, you can join our Patreon page and support us monthly, which is one of the best ways of helping out because it's consistent. It's monthly. And if a small percentage of people donate as little as a dollar a month, I could easily do the show full-time. So no amount is too little to donate. If you want to send a one-time donation, we do have a crypto wall. You can send Bitcoin or Ethereum. We have a Venmo account, a PayPal account. You can also tip us on Rockfin. So if you watch or listen to the Riple Effect podcast on the Rockfin |
| 2:34.8 | platform, when listening or watching to the Riple Effect podcast, you can tip the specific |
| 2:40.4 | episode you're enjoying. So that's another great way of helping the show. We obviously also have |
| 2:44.9 | music, all the music you hear during the show, the intro, outro, all that stuff. It's my solo |
| 2:50.5 | music project called Theory 6 and you can find it on Spotify, iTunes. |
| 2:54.6 | Anywhere you can digitally download music or stream music, you can find Theory 6. |
| 2:58.6 | The theme song's called The Ripple Effect. |
| 3:00.6 | Please check it out if you like the song. |
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