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#026 - Eric Wollberg on Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, & Epistemological Metaphysics
Manage episode 373074124 series 3499027
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.
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(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?”
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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
57 episodes
Manage episode 373074124 series 3499027
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.
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(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?”
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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
57 episodes
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