Crazy Wisdom
What is meant by the phrase "The medium is the message"? - Steven Fan
- Money & Sovereignty
- Crypto & Decentralization
- Internet
- media
- spirituality
- Information
- Decentralization
- bitcoin
- blockchain
- Ethereum
About this episode
Steven is trying to discover the next culture that’s emerging to replace conventional western culture and is also trying to be part of its formation. In this episode, we talk about order, blockchain, decentralization, media, information, eastern spirituality, and much more.
You can reach out to Steven on Twitter @_StevenFan
1:30 - What is the relationship between top-down and bottom-up influences when it comes to the formation of culture?
1:59 - Is the universe itself inherently bottom-up? Is order built up or pressed down?
6:44 - What is a cultural membrane? How do they influence a culture?
13:15 - As the world becomes more of a global village, is the decentralization of the internet possible with the current model of the internet? Should decentralization even be a goal?
18:15 - In the quest for decentralization, are languages like Solidity (Ethereum’s programming language) useful for creating large-scale applications, like Twitter, for example?
26:49 - How centralized technology can trap us in an information bubble.
28:57 - What is meant by the phrase, “the medium is the message?”
34:32 - What is the salience network and how does it influence how we perceive and process information?
36:35 - How paying attention to the salience network can lead to spiritual experiences
41:58 - Does consciousness exist beyond the brain or body?
48:07 - How does the brain create the unitary perception of reality? Is the brain even the actual mechanism behind this unitary perception of reality?
51:48 - What is information?
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. So you might have noticed that the world has gone a little bit insane. And to get through this in a way that is sustainable and maybe even joyous, we are going to have to find some crazy wisdom. Which is why I named the podcast Crazy Wisdom. And I try to find guests who are both contrarian and right, as well as people who can help us to understand how we can get through this period of both acceleration as technology accelerates and maybe even a little bit of darkness, as well as some of you may have been noticing, really crazy stuff is happening right now. So my goal with this show is to empower you with crazy wisdom and give you the tools to figure out how to do it on yourself because we can't rely on too much these days. So with that being said, if you like what I'm offering with this show, I'm on Twitter to Stuart Allsop. I, I, I. My DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you about how this show has affected you.
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest is Stephen Phan. He is trying to discover the next culture that is emerging because there is something that's emerging in our current time and be a part of its formation. In a sense, he's just fucking around and finding out with a focus on bottom up and integration. So bottom up kind of like as this, you know, culture starts from grassroots, but it also starts from the top down as well. So let's start with. Well, welcome to the show.
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