Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies

Join artist and philosopher Michael Garfield for bold, transdisciplinary explorations at the edge of the knowable — deep-cut dialogues on the future of science, art, and political economy, agency in the age of automation, and the psychedelic horizons of human-technology co-evolution.Building on over twenty years of independent research and Michael's stints in major zones of scenius (including at The Santa Fe Institute, The Long Now Foundation, and The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem), Humans On The Loop will help you ask better questions, shift your view of the possible, and cultivate the curiosity and play you need to navigate our age of accelerating weirdness.Dive into extensive show notes, read mind-expanding essays, and join the members community at https://michaelgarfield.substack.com michaelgarfield.substack.com

Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies is a society podcast hosted by Michael Garfield, with 270 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Michael Garfield hosts Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies, a society show with 270 episodes published.

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  Episode #35

  Games & Metrics: Agency as Art & Artifice with C. Thi Nguyen

  May 26, 20261h 36mS2

  <p>✨ Become a founding member to access my online courses, including Jurassic Worlding and How To Live In The Future</p><p>✨ Browse and buy all of the books we discuss on the show at Bookshop.org</p><p>✨ Stream and download my music at artist-owned Subvert.fm</p><p>✨ Learn about Atlas Research Group, my new team on a mission to build sovereign infrastructure for social coherence and collective intelligence</p><p>About This Episode</p><p>This week’s guest is C. Thi Nguyen (Website | Wikipedia | X), associate professor of philosophy at the University of Utah and a specialist...

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  Episode #34

  Collective Futurecrafting: Play, Trauma, and The Duty of Care with Mathew Mytka

  Apr 27, 20261h 23mS2

  <p>✨ Like/Subscribe/Comment where you listen! YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts</p><p>✨ Become a member for our reading group, community calls, and years of members-only recordings — including the excellent raps we had recently on Alexander Douglas and Wendell Berry. Our next call is this weekend, May 2, at 2 pm MDT!</p><p>This week I decant a conversation with the brilliant Mathew Mytka (Website | LinkedIn) — a self-described “Earthian living on and learning from the Country of the Bidjigal, Gweagal and Kamay clans of the Dharawal Nation, in Sydney, Australia.”</p><p>Mat is a moral imagineer, social entrepreneur, UX designer, educator, artist...

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  Episode #33

  Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore

  Mar 25, 20261h 35mS2

  <p>In this episode we join pioneering psychedelic neuroscientist Andrew Gallimore (Website | X | Instagram | Substack) to probe the bewildering high-dimensional horizons of DMT research and their implications for our understanding of consciousness and the structure of reality. </p><p>In his book Death by Astonishment, Gallimore argues DMT expands the brain’s “representational reach,” enabling perception of high-dimensional structures and apparent interaction with non-human “intelligent agents,” challenging standard accounts that treat the experience as mere hallucination, dreams, or Jungian archetypes. What new shapes will we—and our sciences—take as we integrate the intense strangeness of these experiences? How do we even begin...

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  Episode #32

  (Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch

  Mar 10, 20261h 26mS2

  <p>Today’s very overdue conversation is with AI ethicist and organizational trust expert Nathan Kinch of Trustworthy By Design (Website | LinkedIn), asking questions like: How do institutions made of decent, well-meaning people continue to behave out of alignment with their stated values? How do we dig ourselves out of a catastrophic collapse in trust? How can we design practical, participatory “living labs” for organizational reflection and facilitate convivial, playful environments for working together?</p><p>“Certainly one of the world’s leading figures on ethics in practical applications.”— Fionn Delahunty, NLP Lab at University of Galway</p><p>As we frequently...

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  Episode #31

  AI Doesn't Have To Be This Way feat. Alex Komoroske

  Feb 10, 20261h 22mS2

  <p>This week go deep with Alex Komoroske, CEO and co-founder of Common Tools, about his vision for a more saner, more intentional tech paradigm in which the historical contingencies that gave us the digital world we have today have been fundamentally reworked.</p><p>The version of AI most of us have come to accept or reject looks like corporate-owned super-assistants with all your data. Instead, we could have a decentralized ecosystem where software self-assembles around you—private, personal, and prosocial. Alex speaks on this possible world with authority: he spent 13 years at Google as PM Director on Chrome’s we...

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