{"id":4864,"date":"2015-05-06T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2016-08-24T23:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T03:34:37","slug":"afutureworththinkingabout-my-second-appearance-on-mindful-cyborgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=4864","title":{"rendered":"My Second Appearance on Mindful Cyborgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/202728458&amp;color=ff5500\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindfulcyborgs.com\/shows\/2015\/5\/6\/mindful-cyborgs-episode-55-magick-the-occult-in-the-internet-and-corporations-with-damien-williams-pt-2\">&#8220;Mindful Cyborgs &#8211; Episode 55 &#8211; Magick &amp; the Occult within the Internet and Corporations with Damien Williams, PT 2<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, here we are, again, this time talking about magic[k] and the occult and nonhuman consciousness and machine minds and perception, and on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny. I was just saying, elsewhere, how I want to be well enough known that when news outlets do <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Bayf9C0MQa\">alarmist garbage like this<\/a>, that I can at least be called in as a countervailing voice. Is that an arrogant thing to desire? Almost certainly. Like <i>whoa<\/i>. But, really, this alarmist garbage needs to stop. If you have a better vehicle for that than me, though, let me know, because I&#8217;d love to shine a bright damn spotlight on them and have the world see or hear what they have to say.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, until then, I&#8217;ll think of this as yet another bolt in the building of that machine. The one that builds a better world. Have a listen, enjoy, and please tell your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mindful Cyborgs &#8211; Episode 55 &#8211; Magick &amp; the Occult within the Internet and Corporations with Damien Williams, PT 2&#8221; So, here we are, again, this time talking about magic[k] and the occult and nonhuman consciousness and machine minds and perception, and on and on and on. It&#8217;s funny. I was just saying, elsewhere, how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,967,73,85,86,245,271,969,458,492,497,498,966,944,560,1080,958,968],"class_list":["post-4864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-future-worth-thinking-about","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-autonomous-created-intelligence","tag-autonomous-generated-intelligence","tag-distributed-machine-consciousness","tag-embodied-machine-consciousness","tag-interviews","tag-klint-finley","tag-machine-consciousness","tag-magic","tag-magick","tag-mindful-cyborgs","tag-my-voice","tag-my-words","tag-podcasts","tag-the-occult","tag-transhumanism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WByP-1gs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4859,"url":"https:\/\/afutureworththinkingabout.com\/?p=4859","url_meta":{"origin":4864,"position":0},"title":"My First Appearance on Mindful Cyborgs","author":"Damien P. 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