Mind Meld 26 | The Fractal Perspective with Michael Garfield

Michael Garfield returns to the show for another dip into the conversational ectoplasm!

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In addition to being debonair and a brain-melting conversationalist who can talk about basically anything, Michael Garfield is an Austin-based writer, speaker, musician and visionary artist. For more on him, hop through this portal.

Musings in this mind meld include –

• Virtual reality will need a failsafe to remind you you’re in it
• What happens when technology is so advanced we can no longer tell what’s real?
• Yes we’re being lied to, but don’t reject mainstream narratives just to embrace wacky ones
• More has “happened” in the last few months than the entire 16th century
• Information fatigue and navigating “truth” claims
• Internal authority versus external authority  
• The rational age has wrestled us away from believing we exist within meaning.
• Subjective experiences can be just as valid as objective ones.
• Is religion just a more primitive version of science, or is it measuring something else?
• There may be no absolute beginnings, but humans think in terms of stories
• Rest in peace, Paul Laffoley
• Personal breakthroughs that reveal hidden worlds
• The scientifically-proven hyper-charged shroom-brain
• Supreme court ruling that people’s technology is a part of them and can’t be unlawfully searched seized
• If we can ever create a hive mind, what would happen to society? 
• Being successfully nomadic
• Is the definition of success are changing?
• Is the internet age killing monogamy?