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How Humans Learned to See the Future with Byron Reese
What makes the human mind unique? How do we know there’s a future, and how do we recall the past? In this episode of This Anthro Life, Byron Reese, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and author of “Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It,” discusses these questions and more with host Adam Gamwell
What makes the human mind unique? How do we know there’s a future, and how do we recall the past? In this episode of This Anthro Life, Byron Reese, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and author of “Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future–and Shape It,” discusses these questions and more with host Adam Gamwell
“even today, our primary use of stories is still mental. We use them to plan for the future, from the next few minutes, to years or even decades. But that raises an interesting question. How do we know what will happen in the future? Sure, we have the ability to imagine what might happen. But how do you know what will actually happen? As Aristotle writes,” you tell us, “nobody can erase what has not yet happened.” But you ask, “or can they?”
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Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity with Byron Reese
