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Evolve Faster with Scott Ely

Evolve Faster with Scott Ely

Written by: Scott Ely
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 Everything is changing, yet the questions that drive us remain the same. Will humanity face the absurdity of our collective existential crisis in time? Join Scott Ely as he takes us deep into the rabbit hole with philosophical experiments to reboot your mind, psychological tales to upgrade your life and existential practices to explore your soul. Are you ready for what emerges at the intersections of fact and fiction, science and spirituality, philosophy and psychology? To Evolve Faster is to see the fact that you will die someday as an awesome challenge, instead of a source of fear. Create your reality…before it creates you. Isn’t it time for an upgrade?Copyright 2020 - EvolveFaster.com and Scott Ely - All Rights Reserved Drama & Plays Philosophy Self-Help Social Sciences Success
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  • EF49 (S2-E10): The Domino Effect: The Momentum of an Unstoppable Future

    EF49 (S2-E10): The Domino Effect: The Momentum of an Unstoppable Future
    May 26 2020
    PLAY EF49 (S2-E10): The Domino Effect: The Momentum of an Unstoppable FuturePLAY | DOWNLOAD Humanity’s relationship to the future is like falling dominoes, where the momentum of the present surges forward to create what’s next. But since our actions enact this cause-effect chain, does this mean the future is knowable? Or do humans not even matter in this cosmic cycle? More... The big question driving episode EF49 is … Is the future unknowable? And do humans even matter? In the year 2045, a physicist named Sam Payne is creating increasingly large black holes on demand using an advanced particle accelerator. At the end of a 30-yr quest to understand the nature of reality and our existence, she is convinced the answer lies on the other side of these dark portals. As she rips through the fabric of space-time of her world, confidence in her plan crumbles as everything she — and the rest of humanity — holds dear edges towards the abyss. Will she meet her maker? And how far is too far in search of the truth? Although the distant future is unknowable, we try to predict, or rather, create, how the future will look. Unlike philosophical theories that deal with the present and the past, futurism benefits far less from current or previous knowledge. A small, influential, tech-obsessed class is focusing the evolutionary trajectory of humanity towards an artificial intelligence-based, transhuman existence. But will this solve our problems and lead to a superior existence, or just exacerbate and reframe our issues into a more high-tech box? And does our obsession of what’s to come blind us of the point of being alive — and being human — in the present? Into The Rabbit Hole SHOW NOTES: This episode is dedicated to Ray Kurzweil. See the EF49 Show Notes for details of the dedication, inspirations, references, selected quotes and more. ABOUT THE EVOLVE FASTER PODCAST: Everything is changing, yet the questions that drive us remain the same. Will humanity face the absurdity of our collective existential crisis in time? Join Scott Ely as he takes us deep into the rabbit hole with philosophical tales to reboot your mind, upgrade your life and explore your soul. To Evolve Faster is to see the fact that you will die someday as a formidable challenge, instead of a source of immense fear. Create your reality…before it creates you. Isn’t it time for an upgrade? More episodes… SUBSCRIBE: The Evolve Faster Podcast is written, performed and produced by Scott Ely. Writing and production of each episode of the podcast is a significant undertaking spanning many months—it’s a labor of love, but it needs your help to survive. To help ensure the creation of more episodes, please learn about ways you can support the podcast (register, share, review and subscribe) on the Support Evolve Faster page. Your help is much appreciated. PODCAST |ABOUT | SUBSCRIBE Season One: The journey begins as we embark on 11 episodes on big questions relating to MIND. What is the truth? Can we trust reason? Why do we have emotions? Does happiness define the good? What is identity? What is creativity?(EF1) Trailer: The Evolve Faster Podcast (Extended) Trailer(EF2) Intro: Life is a Near Death Experience: Welcome to The Evolve Faster Podcast(EF3) S1-E1: All Aboard the Experience Machine: Destination…Unknown (Season One, Episode One)(EF4) S1-E2: The Decapitation of Reason: A Skeptic’s Guide (Season One, Episode Two)(EF5) S1-E3: The Truth is Clay in the Hands of a Sculptor (Season One, Episode Three)(EF6) S1-E4: Information Mainlining and the Folly of Modern Wisdom (Season One, Episode Four)(EF7) S1-E5: Sleight of Mind: The Black Magic of Rhetoric (Season One, Episode Five)(EF8) S1-E6: Without a Compass: All Who Sail the Seas of Identity Are Not Lost (Season One, Episode Six)(EF9) S1-E7: I Feel Therefore I am: Capsized by the River Emotion (Season One, Episode Seven)(EF10) S1-E8: The Road to Happiness is Inked in Suffering (Season One, Episode Eight)(EF11) S1-E9: When the Lights Go Out: The Blinding Light of an Artificial Future (Season One, Episode Nine)(EF12) S1-E10: Wired to Fail: Leveling Up in the Game of Life (Season One, Episode Ten)(EF13) S1-E11: The Bloody Fingerprint of Creativity (Season One, Episode Eleven)(EF14) BTP: Behind the Evolve Faster Podcast - The Making of a Speculative Fiction Meets Philosophical Nonfiction Podcast(EF15) AMA: Ask Me Anything: About Scott Ely and Evolving a Philosophy for Life(EF16) BTP: On Creative Writing, Video Games and the Future of the Evolve Faster Podcast (About Antonio Rozich)(EF17) BTP-EF3: What Am I Supposed To Do Free Will and Other Everyday Problems Behind the Podcast of Episode EF3(EF18) AMA-EF3: The Mystical Allure of Converting to Buddhism and Speculating about Quantum Mechanics Ask Me Anything for Episode EF3(EF19) BTP-EF4: Head Transplantation and Finding Inspiration for Speculative Fiction - Behind the Podcast of Episode EF4(EF20) AMA-EF4: The Declining Value of ...
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    38 mins
  • EF48 (S2-E9): Checkmate: A Child’s Guide to the Good Life

    EF48 (S2-E9): Checkmate: A Child’s Guide to the Good Life
    May 12 2020
    PLAY EF48 (S2-E9): Checkmate: A Child’s Guide to the Good LifePLAY | DOWNLOAD Experiencing life through the eyes of a child is to see the world with an intensity and excitement to learn long since lost in most adults. Do the secrets to life fulfillment exist in this simple mindset shift? And would this help define what is a good life? More... The big question driving episode EF49 is … What is the good life? Sam Payne, a physicist, finally discovers the true origin of the universe after sacrificing most of her life to the endeavor. But the discovery has vast repercussions which shake the foundation of Sam’s sanity. In light of the drastic nature of her existential dread, Sam is unsure how to even define what a good life would look like for her now. She finds a glimpse of hope in the curious, enigmatic mindset of her 5-year-old daughter, Maya. The hope and desire to live a good life is ingrained in every human. But the day you’re born is also the day you start to die, so the quicker you can arrive at some reasonable and attainable definition of the good life for yourself, the more fulfilling your life will be. But in an existence without obvious meaning, and a society heavily focused on meaningless goals like wealth and fame, how can you uncover an answer for yourself to such a simple question? Is it possible the mindset of seeing the world through a child’s eyes could provide critical insight to that which is otherwise concealed by the challenges and distractions of adult life? Into The Rabbit Hole SHOW NOTES: This episode is dedicated to Nick Bostrom. See the EF48 Show Notes for details of the dedication, inspirations, references, selected quotes and more. ABOUT THE EVOLVE FASTER PODCAST: Everything is changing, yet the questions that drive us remain the same. Will humanity face the absurdity of our collective existential crisis in time? Join Scott Ely as he takes us deep into the rabbit hole with philosophical tales to reboot your mind, upgrade your life and explore your soul. To Evolve Faster is to see the fact that you will die someday as a formidable challenge, instead of a source of immense fear. Create your reality…before it creates you. Isn’t it time for an upgrade? More episodes… SUBSCRIBE: The Evolve Faster Podcast is written, performed and produced by Scott Ely. Writing and production of each episode of the podcast is a significant undertaking spanning many months—it’s a labor of love, but it needs your help to survive. To help ensure the creation of more episodes, please learn about ways you can support the podcast (register, share, review and subscribe) on the Support Evolve Faster page. Your help is much appreciated. PODCAST |ABOUT | SUBSCRIBE Season One: The journey begins as we embark on 11 episodes on big questions relating to MIND. What is the truth? Can we trust reason? Why do we have emotions? Does happiness define the good? What is identity? What is creativity?(EF1) Trailer: The Evolve Faster Podcast (Extended) Trailer(EF2) Intro: Life is a Near Death Experience: Welcome to The Evolve Faster Podcast(EF3) S1-E1: All Aboard the Experience Machine: Destination…Unknown (Season One, Episode One)(EF4) S1-E2: The Decapitation of Reason: A Skeptic’s Guide (Season One, Episode Two)(EF5) S1-E3: The Truth is Clay in the Hands of a Sculptor (Season One, Episode Three)(EF6) S1-E4: Information Mainlining and the Folly of Modern Wisdom (Season One, Episode Four)(EF7) S1-E5: Sleight of Mind: The Black Magic of Rhetoric (Season One, Episode Five)(EF8) S1-E6: Without a Compass: All Who Sail the Seas of Identity Are Not Lost (Season One, Episode Six)(EF9) S1-E7: I Feel Therefore I am: Capsized by the River Emotion (Season One, Episode Seven)(EF10) S1-E8: The Road to Happiness is Inked in Suffering (Season One, Episode Eight)(EF11) S1-E9: When the Lights Go Out: The Blinding Light of an Artificial Future (Season One, Episode Nine)(EF12) S1-E10: Wired to Fail: Leveling Up in the Game of Life (Season One, Episode Ten)(EF13) S1-E11: The Bloody Fingerprint of Creativity (Season One, Episode Eleven)(EF14) BTP: Behind the Evolve Faster Podcast - The Making of a Speculative Fiction Meets Philosophical Nonfiction Podcast(EF15) AMA: Ask Me Anything: About Scott Ely and Evolving a Philosophy for Life(EF16) BTP: On Creative Writing, Video Games and the Future of the Evolve Faster Podcast (About Antonio Rozich)(EF17) BTP-EF3: What Am I Supposed To Do Free Will and Other Everyday Problems Behind the Podcast of Episode EF3(EF18) AMA-EF3: The Mystical Allure of Converting to Buddhism and Speculating about Quantum Mechanics Ask Me Anything for Episode EF3(EF19) BTP-EF4: Head Transplantation and Finding Inspiration for Speculative Fiction - Behind the Podcast of Episode EF4(EF20) AMA-EF4: The Declining Value of Information and Taking Risks to Determine What is the Truth Ask Me Anything of Episode EF4(EF21) BTP-EF5: Should Lying be Made Illegal and the Importance of Figuring Out Why ...
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    28 mins
  • EF47 (S2-E8): Infinite Regress: Drawing Back The Veil of Perception

    EF47 (S2-E8): Infinite Regress: Drawing Back The Veil of Perception
    Apr 28 2020
    PLAY EF47 (S2-E8): Infinite Regress: Drawing Back The Veil of PerceptionPLAY | DOWNLOAD Investigating human limitations beyond the veil of perception is as disconcerting as looking at an image repeating into itself in an infinite regress. What would it mean to have a complete grasp of the entire picture? And would that define for us what is reality? More... The big question driving episode EF47 is … What is reality? Sam Payne is a physicist on the verge of discovering the true nature of reality when her project gets shut down abruptly. But a suspicious gift enables her to go underground to an illegal world of virtual work, in order to try and recruit rogue scientists to restart her research. As the risks pile up, Sam realizes what she’s been seeking for the last three decades of her career has been hidden in plain sight all along. But the answer is also far more dangerous than she could have imagined. We perceive our day to day experience as the one-and-only, true reality. But the truth is, our perception of reality is very different than that of a catfish, bat, or dog; which can respectively taste, hear and smell far more acutely than we could possibly imagine. So what is the true reality, beyond this seemingly impenetrable veil of perception that shrouds human sensory capabilities? Is it something we can even comprehend using the limited wetware of the human brain? Or does such a thing as reality even exist? Into The Rabbit Hole SHOW NOTES: This episode is dedicated to Sean Carroll. See the EF47 Show Notes for details of the dedication, inspirations, references, selected quotes and more. ABOUT THE EVOLVE FASTER PODCAST: Everything is changing, yet the questions that drive us remain the same. Will humanity face the absurdity of our collective existential crisis in time? Join Scott Ely as he takes us deep into the rabbit hole with philosophical tales to reboot your mind, upgrade your life and explore your soul. To Evolve Faster is to see the fact that you will die someday as a formidable challenge, instead of a source of immense fear. Create your reality…before it creates you. Isn’t it time for an upgrade? More episodes… SUBSCRIBE: The Evolve Faster Podcast is written, performed and produced by Scott Ely. Writing and production of each episode of the podcast is a significant undertaking spanning many months—it’s a labor of love, but it needs your help to survive. To help ensure the creation of more episodes, please learn about ways you can support the podcast (register, share, review and subscribe) on the Support Evolve Faster page. Your help is much appreciated. PODCAST |ABOUT | SUBSCRIBE Season One: The journey begins as we embark on 11 episodes on big questions relating to MIND. What is the truth? Can we trust reason? Why do we have emotions? Does happiness define the good? What is identity? What is creativity?(EF1) Trailer: The Evolve Faster Podcast (Extended) Trailer(EF2) Intro: Life is a Near Death Experience: Welcome to The Evolve Faster Podcast(EF3) S1-E1: All Aboard the Experience Machine: Destination…Unknown (Season One, Episode One)(EF4) S1-E2: The Decapitation of Reason: A Skeptic’s Guide (Season One, Episode Two)(EF5) S1-E3: The Truth is Clay in the Hands of a Sculptor (Season One, Episode Three)(EF6) S1-E4: Information Mainlining and the Folly of Modern Wisdom (Season One, Episode Four)(EF7) S1-E5: Sleight of Mind: The Black Magic of Rhetoric (Season One, Episode Five)(EF8) S1-E6: Without a Compass: All Who Sail the Seas of Identity Are Not Lost (Season One, Episode Six)(EF9) S1-E7: I Feel Therefore I am: Capsized by the River Emotion (Season One, Episode Seven)(EF10) S1-E8: The Road to Happiness is Inked in Suffering (Season One, Episode Eight)(EF11) S1-E9: When the Lights Go Out: The Blinding Light of an Artificial Future (Season One, Episode Nine)(EF12) S1-E10: Wired to Fail: Leveling Up in the Game of Life (Season One, Episode Ten)(EF13) S1-E11: The Bloody Fingerprint of Creativity (Season One, Episode Eleven)(EF14) BTP: Behind the Evolve Faster Podcast - The Making of a Speculative Fiction Meets Philosophical Nonfiction Podcast(EF15) AMA: Ask Me Anything: About Scott Ely and Evolving a Philosophy for Life(EF16) BTP: On Creative Writing, Video Games and the Future of the Evolve Faster Podcast (About Antonio Rozich)(EF17) BTP-EF3: What Am I Supposed To Do Free Will and Other Everyday Problems Behind the Podcast of Episode EF3(EF18) AMA-EF3: The Mystical Allure of Converting to Buddhism and Speculating about Quantum Mechanics Ask Me Anything for Episode EF3(EF19) BTP-EF4: Head Transplantation and Finding Inspiration for Speculative Fiction - Behind the Podcast of Episode EF4(EF20) AMA-EF4: The Declining Value of Information and Taking Risks to Determine What is the Truth Ask Me Anything of Episode EF4(EF21) BTP-EF5: Should Lying be Made Illegal and the Importance of Figuring Out Why You Believe What you Believe --Behind the Podcast of Episode EF5(EF22) ...
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    35 mins
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