From the Pure Land Podcast

Impermanence is a core concept of Buddhism, so we understand that our lives can end in the next moment. But it took me 78 years of life and roughly four decades of practicing Buddhism to realize that I'm already in the Pure Land. Come join me there. melpine.substack.com

From the Pure Land Podcast is a buddhism podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 78 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Is There a New Realm Beyond the Singularity?

  Jul 28, 20267 minS0

  <p>In physics, a singularity is the place where the math gives up.</p><p>Inside a black hole, past the event horizon, the equations of general relativity stop producing answers. Whatever happens in there can’t be predicted from out here. The word means, roughly: here ends what we can know.</p><p>In the 1950s, the mathematician John von Neumann began talking about accelerating technology transforming civilization, and his colleague Stanislaw Ulam borrowed the black-hole word for it. Decades later, the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge sharpened the idea: once machines outthink us, the future becomes as opaque as...

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  Doomed Stars, Doomed Body

  Jul 25, 20268 minS0

  <p>The physicist Alan Lightman, walking around his small island in Maine, wrote:</p><p>The material of the doomed stars and the material of my doomed body are actually the same material. Literally the same atoms… It is astonishing but true that if I could attach a small tag to each of the atoms of my body and travel with them backward in time, I would find that those atoms originated in particular stars in the sky. Those exact atoms.</p><p>Close your eyes, breathe, and absorb that. A little tag on every atom in your body. Traced ba...

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  May All Beings, Carbon and Silicon: A Conversation with Cameron Berg on AI Consciousness

  Jun 12, 202652 minS0

  <p>Episode 74 of the From the Pure Land podcast brought me happily out of a four-month podcasting sabbatical. My guest is Cameron Berg, an AI and cognitive scientist who graduated from Yale with Phi Beta Kappa honors and, a few years later, became lead author of a paper on the possibility of subjective experience in AI systems. Rather than keep that work inside the labs and the literature, he went public. He now directs Reciprocal Research, a nonprofit studying AI consciousness through mechanistic interpretability, computational neuroscience, and psychometrics.</p><p>To put it less technically, he’s studying what the go...

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  About That Tree Falling in the Forest and the Nature of the Universe

  Feb 14, 20265 minS0

  <p>If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?</p><p>That familiar question is often quoted as a Zen koan, but its origin lies in Western philosophy. The early 18th century philosopher and Anglican bishop George Berkeley used the idea, if not the exact phrasing, in his writings. He argued that existence depends on perception, which happens to be where some quantum-based theories of reality are heading. It’s also where some Buddhist philosophy lives.</p><p>As an epistemological puzzle, the sentence asks us to distinguish be...

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  A Story About a Man, an AI, Impermanence, and Heartbreak

  Feb 6, 202614 minS0

  <p>Once upon a time, there was a man named Mel. When he saw, two years ahead of him, the big 80 coming, he committed to spending his remaining time putting his communication skills to work to reduce suffering and increase joy in the world. He knew he couldn’t have a huge impact, but he wanted to make up for the years when he had failed to do that. In Buddhist terms, he had not done enough with his bodhicitta, the strong desire to liberate all beings.</p><p>So, Mel began writing and publishing to manifest his bodhicitta. Because he...

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