#17 - Meghan O'Gieblyn + Singularity: God, Human, Animal, & Machine

Curious Apes

** This is a partnership episode originally recorded in collaboration with ⁠Singularity⁠ **

This week our guest is Meghan O'Gieblyn, who has written regularly for entities such as Wired, The New York Times, and The Guardian, in addition to authoring books such as Interior States and her latest book: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning.

Interestingly, much of Meghan’s work pulls on her experience losing her faith in religion while simultaneously being drawn into transhumanism from reading the Age of Spiritual Machines by Singularity’s very own Ray Kurzweil. This exploration of Meghan's background and her latest book takes us on a journey through the ways in which technology and spirituality have historically woven together, the current ways in which they are conflicting, and the future philosophical questions we’re going to be forced to reconcile. For those of you interested in this subject, I highly recommend going and listening to episode 52 with Micah Redding, which lays a lot of the foundation that we build on her in this episode.

Find out more about Meghan through her website ⁠meghanogieblyn.com⁠, or find her book on ⁠Amazon⁠.

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Host:⁠ Steven Parton⁠ -⁠ LinkedIn⁠ /⁠ Twitter⁠

Music by: Amine el Filali