Season 3, Episode 5: Are We Having Fun Yet? ft. Peter Watts

It’s the 20th anniversary of Blindsight! David and Rachel sit down in Rachel’s living room with marine biologist, critically acclaimed author, and enemy-of-the-state Peter Watts to drink two bottles of wine and talk about theories of consciousness, cigar-shaped harbour seals, the climate collapse, and why dystopian sci-fi authors are in fact childishly optimistic.

Additional audio engineering by Rick Innis.

Show Notes:

• Rifters
• The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?
• The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner
• The Limits To Growth
• Philosophical Zombie
• Consciousness and its function, David M. Rosenthal
• Michael Timothy Bennett
• Erik Hoel 
• Mirror Test
• The Hidden Spring
• Arthur Jafa

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