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#026 - Eric Wollberg on Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, & Epistemological Metaphysics

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Eric Wollberg is the co-founder and CEO of Prophetic, a consumer neurotechnology company building Halo, a non-invasive device for inducing and stabilizing lucid dream states. Eric and I talk about why he’s working on this problem, consciousness, the dream state, best applications for this technology, epistemological metaphysics, and more.

(00:57) Why work on this problem? (04:10) Using “extreme environments” to understand concsciousness (and other hard problems) (07:46) Why do we dream? (09:42) Becoming more agentic through lucid dreaming (12:04) VR/XR vs. lucid dreaming (16:00) Potential negative scenarios with neurotechnology (19:29) Why would we not use lucid dreaming as an escape? (23:19) Consciousness-to-consciousness interfacing (26:55) Epistemological metaphysics (31:11) Barriers to epistemological metaphysics (33:19) How we answer questions about consciousness, reality, and “who am I?”

Eric’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericwollberg

Prophetic’s website: https://propheticai.co/

Spencer’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SP1NS1R

Spencer’s Blog: https://spencerkier.substack.com

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Eric Wollberg is the co-founder and CEO of Prophetic, a consumer neurotechnology company building Halo, a non-invasive device for inducing and stabilizing lucid dream states. Eric and I talk about why he’s working on this problem, consciousness, the dream state, best applications for this technology, epistemological metaphysics, and more.

(00:57) Why work on this problem? (04:10) Using “extreme environments” to understand concsciousness (and other hard problems) (07:46) Why do we dream? (09:42) Becoming more agentic through lucid dreaming (12:04) VR/XR vs. lucid dreaming (16:00) Potential negative scenarios with neurotechnology (19:29) Why would we not use lucid dreaming as an escape? (23:19) Consciousness-to-consciousness interfacing (26:55) Epistemological metaphysics (31:11) Barriers to epistemological metaphysics (33:19) How we answer questions about consciousness, reality, and “who am I?”

Eric’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericwollberg

Prophetic’s website: https://propheticai.co/

Spencer’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SP1NS1R

Spencer’s Blog: https://spencerkier.substack.com

  continue reading

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