Episode: 45 Xenogenesis - Adulthood-Rites: III: Chkahichdahk Chapters 5 & 6
XenoThesis · Richard J. Acton and Michael Glinka
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Show Notes
In episode 45, Richard and Michael discuss if conscious animals that are happy to do what we want is really a good idea… (it really is not).
Timestamps
00:00:00 - Start
00:00:32 - Welcome
00:01:13 - We are still salty about not knowing about the propulsion method
00:03:26 - Chapter 5 predictions
00:04:11 - Chapter 5 starts with a sphincter
00:06:01 - Tilio
00:07:23 - Akin the Animal Whisperer and the dog-cars
00:08:13 - “Knight Rider”
00:09:30 - Ethics of consciously-happy animals
00:19:01 - Back to chapter 5 - Oankali’s control
00:22:56 - Akin, family and resolution of the bond
00:26:30 - Oankali and daughters
00:32:29 - Ooloi and future predictions
00:36:24 - Family resemblences
00:38:02 - Chapter 6 predictions
00:39:21 - Chapter 6 summary begins
00:40:37 - First encounter with Oankali was seeing giant caterpillars
00:42:25 - Spoken language
00:46:43 - lightyear.fm
00:50:31 - True ooloi communication [1, 2]
00:59:01 - Connected consciousnesses [3]
01:02:53 - Chapter 7 predictions
01:04:54 - Loud numbers podcast
01:05:16 - Outro
References
Single sub-nuclear particle detection:
- [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172 - Human eye detecting a single photon.
- [2] https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/ion-channel-14047658/ - Ion channels in the cell membranes.
Mirror hand experiment:
- [3] https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~rlawson/PDF_Files/BBBL&W-C&C-2011.pdf - Article investigating rubber hand illusion.
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