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Metamodern Meaning

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Metamodernism
Metamodern Christianity
Postmodernism
Spirituality
Biosphere
Consciousness
Christianity
Gaia
Ecology
Modernity
Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence
Spiritual Naturalism
Metamodern Spirituality
Secular Spirituality
Faith
Developmental Psychology
Ecodrome
God
Evolution

Brendan Graham Dempsey interviews leading thinkers in the metamodernism, integral, syntheist, GameB, and other communities about topics related to meaning-making and spirituality in today's world. www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com

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Can we account for meaning and value in terms of thermodynamics and information theory? Complex systems thinker Artemy Kolchinsky thinks so. He joins me to explain how we can make the idea of “meaning” tractable in rigorous formal terms by filling in... more

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Post-postmodern spiritual writer Steve McIntosh discusses his journey from the progressive spirituality scene of the 70s into the Spiral Dynamics and Integral scenes of the 90s and early 2000s, then his own philosophical development from there into t... more

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90. Modern vs. Postmodern (vs. Metamodern) Philosophy w/ Stephen Hicks

Philosopher and professor Dr. Stephen Hicks returns for a discussion about integrating critiques of the modern project and the Enlightenment ideals on which it is based. Are post... more

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Rufus Pollock of Life Itself explains what Life Itself is about before we dive into a deep and rich conversation about the heart of this new movement we're a part of that's dedicated to a different orientation to value and meaning. What is distinctly... more

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Artemy Kolchinsky
Physicist and researcher known for semantic information theory
Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)
Episode: The Physics of Meaning w/ Artemy Kolchinsky
Steve McIntosh
Philosopher of New Sphere Evolution
Institute for Cultural Evolution / Author
Episode: 91. Evolving Evolutionary Spirituality w/ Steve McIntosh
Stephen Hicks
Philosopher and professor at Rockford University, Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Rockford University
Episode: 90. Modern vs. Postmodern (vs. Metamodern) Philosophy w/ Stephen Hicks
Rufus Pollock
Co-founder of Life Itself, researcher, and mapmaker of metamodern ecosystems
Life Itself
Episode: Metamodern Mission (w/ Rufus Pollock)
Godzbel Osa
PhD candidate, UT Austin; work on partisan group consciousness
University of Texas at Austin
Episode: 89. Complexifying Identity w/ God'swill Osa
Daniel Strain
Founder of The Spiritual Naturalist Society
The Spiritual Naturalist Society
Episode: 88. Spiritual Naturalist Society (w/ Daniel Strain and Alexander Cheruk)
Alex Cheruk
Executive Director of The Spiritual Naturalist Society
The Spiritual Naturalist Society
Episode: 88. Spiritual Naturalist Society (w/ Daniel Strain and Alexander Cheruk)
Cheryl Armon
Developmental psychologist and seminal thinker in developmental psychology
Episode: 87. Development & Philosophies of the Good (w/ Cheryl Armon)
Nish Dubashia
British writer and integral thinker
Episode: 86. A Brief History of God (w/ Nish Dubashia)

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Brendan Graham Dempsey
Host of the Metamodern Meaning podcast

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 27 ratings
  • Steep conversational gradient, big views

    High bit-rate conversations, on topics which may challenge casual explorers of this genre. Nonetheless, I find it rich and refreshing, worthy of the effort required to assimilate the perspectives presented.

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    5
    Jed-I jester
    United States2 years ago
  • Informative, even life changing

    This podcast has opened my eyes to how much we don’t know, and the wonder and surprise of all the things we do know. It’s really changed my outlook on life for the better

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    iheartalchemythis
    United States3 years ago
  • Informed, rigorous, inspiring

    I’ve listened to more than half of the episodes here and really appreciate Brendan’s calm and informed approach. The guests are consistently intelligent and insightful — on the frontier of the evolution of religion and spirituality, all while taking a rigorous, scientifically informed approach.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Jonblogden
    United States4 years ago

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Thought-provoking conversations that challenge listeners to think critically.
Consistent high-quality insights from expert guests in fields of spirituality and philosophy.

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The Physics of Meaning w/ Artemy Kolchinsky
Q: What implications do you see for AI alignment and embodied cognition?
Embodiment and precarity appear essential for intrinsic values to arise; purely exogenous, unapplied intelligence in non-embodied systems may lack the normative pull found in living agents, so semantic information theory could inform alignment by clarifying which informational goals are viable given an agent's embodied constraints.
The Physics of Meaning w/ Artemy Kolchinsky
Q: How does the 'plateau' in the information–viability curve inform our understanding of meaningful information?
The plateau marks a threshold where additional information stops increasing viability for a given system, suggesting a division between information that meaningfully contributes to survival and information that is less relevant, with embodiment and environmental context determining where that threshold lies.
91. Evolving Evolutionary Spirituality w/ Steve McIntosh
Q: What are the practical implications of this philosophy for politics and social change?
The approach motivates building institutions (like think tanks) that address polarization and promote a more integrative political ontology, enabling collaboration across divergent worldviews and fostering a synthesis beyond the antithesis of postmodernism.
91. Evolving Evolutionary Spirituality w/ Steve McIntosh
Q: Is there a religious or metaphysical implication to the concept of value, or can this be grounded in naturalism?
While rejecting crude supernaturalism, Steve argues for a nuanced naturalism that includes interior subjective domains; value is real and causally effective, arising from the interaction of agents and environments rather than existing as a mere illusion or purely external property.
91. Evolving Evolutionary Spirituality w/ Steve McIntosh
Q: What is the role of value and intrinsic value in the evolving worldview, and how does it relate to entropy and system viability?
Value is seen as an immanent, dynamic force that preserves viability and order within systems; it acts like a lure or energy that guides evolution and is inseparable from information, meaning, and cognitive processes across the evolutionary stack.

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