Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Welcome to a BGI deep-conversation between Haley Lowey and Dr. Cadell Last, anthropologist and philosopher, as he explores how AGI can help us become more human. In this episode, we journey through:
- Meta-System Transitions: Why our 20th-century institutions are up for radical overhaul and how today’s careers and passions will shape tomorrow’s social systems cadelle final
- Biocultural Evolution: The untold challenge of balancing biological and cultural reproduction. Can we finally do both without sacrificing one for the other?
- Human General Intelligence: From hyper-specialization to rediscovering our innate, creative “abstract speculative” capacities.
- Social Friction vs. Screens: How friction fuels real-world connection, and why our screen-obsessed, frictionless world risks loneliness, empathy decay, and fractured realities
- Spiritual and Ethical Dimensions: The paradox of abundance and compassion, the need for new rituals and shared purpose, and how AGI might provoke a collective spiritual awakening
- Global Brain Coordination: As we converge into one planet-wide network, what new boundaries, rituals, and philosophies will enable us to solve unprecedented social and political challenges?
Join us to uncover the philosophical, anthropological, and practical insights that could steer AGI toward a compassionate, abundant future.
Whether you’re a technologist, a humanist, or simply curious about the future of our species, this conversation will challenge your assumptions and ignite new ideas for living, and thriving, with AGI.
Links:
cadelllast.com/2018/09/26/global-brain-singularity-universal-history-and-future-evolution
https://philosophyportal.online/about-cadell
Watch now to rethink your role in the coming age of artificial general intelligence—and share your thoughts below!
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SingularityNET was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel with the mission of creating a decentralized, democratic, inclusive, and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). An AGI is not dependent on any central entity, is open to anyone, and is not restricted to the narrow goals of a single corporation or even a single country.
The SingularityNET team includes seasoned engineers, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and marketers. Our core platform and AI teams are further complemented by specialized teams devoted to application areas such as finance, robotics, biomedical AI, media, arts, and entertainment.
Website: singularitynet.io
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/singularitynet
X: https://x.com/SingularityNET
Instagram: instagram.com/singularitynet.io
Discord: discord.gg/snet
Telegram: https://t.me/singularitynet
ASI Alliance on X: https://x.com/ASI_Alliance
ASI Alliance on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/artificial-superintelligence-alliance
Welcome to a BGI deep-conversation between Haley Lowey and Dr. Cadell Last, anthropologist and philosopher, as he explores how AGI can help us become more human. In this episode, we journey through:
- Meta-System Transitions: Why our 20th-century institutions are up for radical overhaul and how today’s careers and passions will shape tomorrow’s social systems cadelle final
- Biocultural Evolution: The untold challenge of balancing biological and cultural reproduction. Can we finally do both without sacrificing one for the other?
- Human General Intelligence: From hyper-specialization to rediscovering our innate, creative “abstract speculative” capacities.
- Social Friction vs. Screens: How friction fuels real-world connection, and why our screen-obsessed, frictionless world risks loneliness, empathy decay, and fractured realities
- Spiritual and Ethical Dimensions: The paradox of abundance and compassion, the need for new rituals and shared purpose, and how AGI might provoke a collective spiritual awakening
- Global Brain Coordination: As we converge into one planet-wide network, what new boundaries, rituals, and philosophies will enable us to solve unprecedented social and political challenges?
Join us to uncover the philosophical, anthropological, and practical insights that could steer AGI toward a compassionate, abundant future.
Whether you’re a technologist, a humanist, or simply curious about the future of our species, this conversation will challenge your assumptions and ignite new ideas for living, and thriving, with AGI.
Links:
cadelllast.com/2018/09/26/global-brain-singularity-universal-history-and-future-evolution
https://philosophyportal.online/about-cadell
Watch now to rethink your role in the coming age of artificial general intelligence—and share your thoughts below!
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SingularityNET was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel with the mission of creating a decentralized, democratic, inclusive, and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). An AGI is not dependent on any central entity, is open to anyone, and is not restricted to the narrow goals of a single corporation or even a single country.
The SingularityNET team includes seasoned engineers, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and marketers. Our core platform and AI teams are further complemented by specialized teams devoted to application areas such as finance, robotics, biomedical AI, media, arts, and entertainment.
Website: singularitynet.io
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/singularitynet
X: https://x.com/SingularityNET
Instagram: instagram.com/singularitynet.io
Discord: discord.gg/snet
Telegram: https://t.me/singularitynet
ASI Alliance on X: https://x.com/ASI_Alliance
ASI Alliance on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/artificial-superintelligence-alliance
