Ep. 309: Adam Frank on Aliens, AI and Climate Collapse

Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester. A self-described ‘evangelist of science,’ Adam regularly writes and speaks about subjects like intelligent life forms in the universe, high-energy-density physics, space exploration and missions, climate change and more. In this podcast we discuss: 

• Public science communication and scientific denialism 
• Intersection of science, art and spirituality 
• Searching for aliens – SETI and the Fermi Paradox 
• Detecting biospheres and techno-spheres 
• Climate change as an astro-biological transition 
• Role of complex systems from supply chains to climate 
• The Kardashev Scale and the limits of civilizational growth 
• Critique of Mars as a lifeboat 
• Reimagining global governance 
• Science’s ‘Blind Spot’ and the machine metaphor 
• AI, Consciousness and the Illusion of Mind in Machines 
• Books mentioned: Mars Trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson), The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson), New York 2140 (Kim Stanley Robinson), The Rigor of Angels (Egginton), Children of a Modest Star (Blake, Gilman) 

You can follow Adam here. 

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