Robert Wright and Boris Shoshitaishvili discuss Boris’s new book, Our Planetary Mirror, which draws on three big ideas—Gaia, the noosphere, and the Anthropocene—along with philosophy and myth to reassess who we are and the problems we face as a species. Overtime: Are humans AI’s fossil fuel?
0:00 Overtime teaser
0:43 Boris’s background and new book, Our Planetary Mirror
3:43 Three ways of seeing the planet—and us
12:47 Resurveying the Gaia “hypothesis”
20:31 Dawkins’s case against Gaia
27:16 Is humanity outgrowing its planetary parent?
32:57 The noosphere: Teilhard vs Vernadsky
48:46 Can we reason our way to global solidarity?*
53:58 Heading to Overtime
*This section has tantalizing hints about the need for a symbolic and mythological dimension to our conception of our place in the universe.
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