Michael Garfield

An open invite to anyone keen on "rewilding the future" — my good friends at Weirdosphere.org have granted permission to open the first lecture from my upcoming course, How To Live In The Future, to the public! RSVP here to join us on Tuesday night (5 pm PDT):
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An Intro to "How To Live In The Future" with Michael Garfield @ Weirdosphere · Zoom · Luma Thanks to the generosity of the my admins at Weirdosphere.org, we're making the first talk from my five-week course, "How To Live In The Future: Views from the…

🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick

This week we speak to multidisciplinary independent researcher William Sarill, whose life has traced a high-dimensional curve through biochemistry, art restoration, physics, and esotericism (and I’m stopping the list here but it goes on). Bill is one of the only people I know who has the scientific chops to understand and explain how to possibly unify thermodynamics with general relativity AND has gone swimming into the deep end of The Weird for long enough to develop an appreciation for its paradoxical profundities. He can also boast personal friendships with two of the greatest (and somewhat diametrically opposed) science fiction authors ever: Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov.

In this conversation we start by exploring some of his discoveries and insights as an intuition-guided laboratory biomedical researcher and follow the river upstream into his synthesis of emerging theoretical frameworks that might make sense of PKD’s legendary VALIS experiences — the encounter with high strangeness that drove him to write The Exegesis, over a million words of effort to explain the deep structure of time and reality. It’s time for new ways to think about time! Enjoy…

✨ Mentions

Philip K. Dick, Bruce Damer, Iain McGilchrist, Eric Wargo, Stu Kauffman, Michael Persinger, Alfred North Whitehead, Terence McKenna, Karl Friedrich, Mike Parker, Chris Jeynes, David Wolpert, Ivo Dinov, Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, Erwin Schroedinger, Kaluza & Klein, Richard Feynman, Euclid, Hermann Minkowski, James Clerk Maxwell, The I Ching, St. Augustine, Stephen Hawking, Jim Hartle, Alexander Vilenkin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Timothy Morton, Futurama, The Wachowski Siblings, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leonard Euler, Paramahansa Yogananda, Alfred Korbzybski, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Claude Shannon, Ludwig Boltzmann, Carl Jung, Danny Jones, Mark Newman, Michael Lachmann, Cristopher Moore, Jessica Flack, Robert Root Bernstein, Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Ruth Bernstein, Andres Gomez Emilsson, Diane Musho Hamilton

My own edit of the wonderful conversation I just had with Tim Adalin of Voicecraft is now up on YT and elsewhere! Superbly thoughtful (if you can't tell from the cover image of us both thinking entirely too hard). Lots of good stuff in here about how ideas flow in large and small populations, how to foster innovation responsibly, how to make sure your organization doesn't just exist in order to exist...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3dPt6sL_aM