Humans On The Loop 171 - Eric Wargo on Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time Travel
This week we welcome back anthropologist and science writer Eric Wargo, for a conversation about his book Precognitive Dreamwork and The Long Self — as well as: how tautology (not paradox) rules a time travel universe, what it means to become a time-faring species, the future of precognitive technologies, the concern of a quantum computing financial singularity, why lying to yourself about your own future-sight might be of evolutionary benefit, why retrocausalists don’t believe in randomness, how culture is a tesseract and dreams are future fossils, the controversy of divinatory astrology, and how pre-shocks of future traumas explain some of the more puzzling facts of history.
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✨ Discussed:
• Listening
FF 124 with Norman “Dr. Blue” Katz
FF 150 with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
Complexity Episode 9 with Mirta Galesic
• Reading
NPR - Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible, Researchers Say
Nautilus - This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible
Johnjoe McFadden - Quantum Evolution
Jonathan Zap - Crossing The Event Horizon
Jacques Vallee - The Invisible College
Ted Chiang - Stories of your Life and Others
Ted Chiang - Exhalation
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Timothy Morton - Hyperobjects
Russell Targ & Jean Houston - Limitless Mind
Jessica Flack - “Coarse-Graining as a Downward Causation Mechanism”
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