Today, longtime friends and radio co-hosts Randy Harris and Keith Whelpley explore some observations about the past, the present, and the future of our rapidly changing situation in the US. The conversation considers some of the many different ways people are thinking, feeling, and responding.
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Today, we talk with Rorie Measure/Co-founder and President and Jude Hickey/Executive Director of a local non-profit organization called The Children's Reading Alliance.
The mission of The Children's Reading Alliance (CRA) is "Empowering families and communities to build a culture of literacy so that all children can read, learn, and thrive." CRA brings reading and the benefits of reading, into the forefront of the lives of parents, children, families, and our broader community. Randy Harris and Jack Turney turn their explorations to the words "Pride" and "Humility".
These words can carry a lot of weight for us as individually and culturally, even though interpretations of their meanings are varied, nuanced, and context dependent. The conversation brings observations of how we think about truth, hubris, assumptions, language, religion, emotions, science, epistemology, psychology, social norms and constructs and more. And of course, we look into why we think the ways we do, and why that matters. On this week's Think Again, Peter Goodman and Randy Harris had a conversation with Carlos Aceves. Carlos Aceves, co-founder of Raices Del Saber Xinachtli Community School. At Raices, a public charter school offering a bilingual immersion program in Las Cruces, students study conventional curriculum and integrate ancient Indigenous values and practices.
This is an exploration of our current culture in contrast with earlier cultures; western cultures tending to see the earth as a source of material wealth, while earlier cultures teach that like all life forms, we humans are part of the fabric of creation and the earth is our mother. Touching on history, values, economics, empires and religion, we endeavor to reveal a powerful perspective of the human experience. We thank Keith Whelpley for an exploration of what we call illusion. Philosopher and poet David Whyte's book Consolations II presents the idea that our lives are a progression from one illusion to the next. The collapse of each illusion gives way to yet another. He proposes that human life is a progression through layer after layer of illusion, and that in the process, we learn humility, wisdom, and a sense of humor. Today we consider different ways to think about illusion. We wonder aloud about knowing, believing, truth, and reality.
Hmmm... Kinda' makes ya' wonder. Today we welcome the return of Bob Hearn with more about his ongoing exploration of AI. He describes some of his thoughts, observations, experiments, and fascinating discoveries of AI characteristics which may bode well or ill (or both) for we messy organic humans. Good stuff!
Throughout human history, our species has searched for answers, leadership, meaning and purpose, comfort and certainty, ethics, values, and community in religions based on "non-human" intelligence. Non-human intelligence has long shaped and directed the day to day lives of humanity. If traditional religions originate from non-human intelligence, why not an AI based religion?
Randy Harris and Jack Turney consider the possibility that AI may be capable of generating a new religion - or religions. We explore the necessary elements and components required to form a religion. Can AI meet those requirements? Can AI occupy the role of a traditional "God"? What drives human beings to seek the benefits offered through belief in any form of non-human intelligence? Can those benefits be derived from an AI generated religion? The conversation touches on these questions and many more. This conversation with Shahid Mustafa (KTAL co-host of Black English Vernacular) touches on Black History through the lens of narratives. Narratives like the traditional American history narratives that tend to ignore or erase elements of our history that are not flattering to the story of America.
We talk about how stories, narratives, and language are subject to "spin", alteration, and misrepresentation in order to fit and perpetuate our preferred historical fictions. We explore notions about the role of the original Republican party - ethics and economics - the effects of "collateral damage" - US and global impacts - and more. Today we explore some of the aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that Bob Hearn has been recently experimenting with. His conversations with ChatGPT have revealed some surprising capabilities. Today we wonder aloud about questions like - "What is intelligence?" What does it mean to be human? What does AI learn from its interactions with us? Are there aspects of humanness that will forever remain beyond AI's ability to learn and convincingly replicate? Does it have curiosity? Does it have independent thinking skills? Can it feel? Can it have a sense of humor? Can it create new religions? Is it potentially dangerous? An exciting exploration.
Today's conversation with Keith Whelpley, Jack Turney and Randy Harris explores the new administration's attacks on our Democracy and our cultural values. We address the scrubbing of public information sites, mass firings of government workers, deportation, immigration, Christians, violations of human dignity, abortion, social justice, economics, and more. We discuss avenues of action for personally coping with these increasingly threatening policies, and how to bring our own compassion, kindness, and generosity to those around us who are at greatest risk today.
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