Episodes: 48
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Listener location: United Kingdom
Instagram: 968 followers
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Kenneth Primrose - Writer and podcast host exploring wisdom, personal development, and the questions involved in living well.
Michael Sacasas - What Humans Should Continue Doing When Machines Can Do Tasks More Efficiently; Convenience, Competence, Attention, Embodied Practice, Generative AI, Care, Hospitality, And Community.
Sherry Turkle - Generative AI As An Attachment Technology; Simulated Intimacy, AI Companions, Therapy, Childhood Development, Resilience, Civic Life, And The Social Costs Of Outsourcing Care To Machines.
Douglas Davies - Death, Relational Identity, Grief, Funerals, Continuing Bonds, Woodland Burial, Digital Memorials, Dying Alone, Dignity, And New Approaches To Body Disposition.
Anthea Lawson - Effective Activism, Avoiding Burnout And Righteousness, People Power, Bridge-building, Perfectionism, Nervous-system Regulation, Grief, And Sustainable Approaches To Changing The World.
Lisa Miller - Mysticism, Synchronicity, and the Awakened Brain
October 31, 2026
This week, Kenny Primrose re-releases an early Examined Life conversation with Dr. Lisa Miller, clinical psychologist at Columbia University and author of The Awakened Brain, originally published in 2023. It’s a companion to last week’s episode with Philip Goff on mystical experience, approaching the same territory through psychology rather than philosophy.Miller argues that humans are innately capable of transcendent awareness, and that ignoring it leads to existential pain. She shares how t...
Philip Goff - Rationality, evidence, and mystical experiences
October 23, 2026
In this episode I sit down with philosopher Philip Goff to ask what makes a belief rational when your most vivid evidence is your own inner life. We explore how mystical experience, priors, and philosophical clarity shape what we trust about consciousness, religion, and even AI. It's a fascinating conversation that moves between philosophical reasoning and personal experience, and tries to pull the two together in some kind of harmony.As ever, if you do enjoy listening, then please send ...
Michael Sacasas - What should you be doing for yourself, even if a machine can do it for you?
October 05, 2026
In this episode Michael Sacasas explores what humans should keep doing even when machines can do it faster, cheaper, and “better,” and why convenience can quietly erode competence, attention, and relationship. We explore how friction, effort, and embodied practice can be part of flourishing rather than a problem to eliminate. • the guiding question of what remains good for humans to do even when tasks can be automated • Albert Borgmann’s focal things versus devices and what central heating re...
Coffin Talk · Low booking difficulty · 1,000 - 10,000 listeners
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