153 - Where Do Thoughts Come From?

 

On this episode, Kris and David debrief each other on Kris’s art show and David’s three-day trip to Las Vegas.

Stick to the end of the show to hear David fall down a rabbit hole over where his thoughts are coming from.

Dad fitness, devouring sound, Radiohead at 800% slower, art as a mode, being too real to live, plague masks, time shamans, the size of Kris’s mind, cosmic vs. astronomical, ferret cage synchronicity, qualia, area unexplored because of ghosts, ACE car rental rant, the Neon Museum, crackhead soap opera, Area 15, chicken ginseng soup, the danger of telling women to calm down, the power of System of a Down, the powerful sense of vacancy of certain people, the Vegas time slip, the three incidents that explain where we are now, the separation between humans and AI, algorithm hoarders, when did we first get the internet?, the nonlocal vs. the algorithmic, silver alerts, digital detoxes, the selfie invents the selfie murder, time flu, operating system updates, judging the thinker by the fans, thinking about thinking, cultural loneliness, being reincarnated as a buffalo, S(  )R, everything wants to be remembered, lost watches, reducing backstory, speaking directly into the mirror, and the Glass Cylinder Game.