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Curiosity ⇔ Entangled

Curiosity ⇔ Entangled

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Curiosity ⇔ Entangled brings together two experts from different fields for unscripted conversations fueled by mutual curiosity. Each episode explores intersections of science, technology, philosophy, and humanity, diving into topics like the origins of life, artificial intelligence, ancient and modern history, and the mysteries of the cosmos. These unique dialogues create opportunities for the cross-pollination of ideas, sparking new insights and innovation. Join us to discover where curiosity can lead. Produced by Accelerator Media, a nonprofit organization www.acceleratormedia.orgAccelerator Media Wissenschaft
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  • Sara Imari Walker x Amy Karle | Life, Time, Creativity and the Future

    Sara Imari Walker x Amy Karle | Life, Time, Creativity and the Future
    Aug 15 2026

    What is life, and how much say do we have in shaping what comes next?

    Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker joins artist and futurist Amy Karle to explore the questions they each reach from opposite directions: what life is, how it begins, and how we would recognize it somewhere else. Drawing on Walker's search for the physics and possible laws of life and Karle's art made with the tools of frontier science and biotechnology, they find where a scientist's attempt to see life differently meets an artist's attempt to help us feel possibilities we do not yet have language for.

    Their conversation explores time and how differently each of us lives it, possibility versus probability, creativity as a force that shapes the world, the traces we leave for the future, bioprinting and what we become when we remake the body, how a work changes as different cultures receive it, and the question of what part we play in the universe's ongoing creativity.


    Three core questions:

    1. What does it mean to be alive, and how would we recognize life radically unlike our own?

    2. Can genuinely new possibilities emerge, or is the future fundamentally constrained by the past and by probability?

    3. Is the universe itself creative, and what role do life, intelligence, and human agency play in that creative process?

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    GUESTS

    Sara Imari Walker - Astrobiologist & Theoretical Physicist

    Professor and Deputy Director, Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University

    Author of Life as No One Knows It and co-developer of Assembly Theory

    https://search.asu.edu/profile/1731899

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

    Amy Karle - Artist, Bioartist & Futurist

    Known for Regenerative Reliquary and The Heart of Evolution

    Exhibited at Ars Electronica, the Centre Pompidou, and the Mori Art Museum

    https://www.amykarle.com

    ———

    Chapters

    00:00 Meet Sara Imari Walker and Amy Karle

    01:14 What does it mean to be alive?

    04:41 The futures cone, and how much we shape what comes

    07:33 Possibility, probability, and the outliers that surprise us

    10:40 Living out of the past, or starting from a blank slate

    16:28 Echoes from the Valley of Existence: leaving DNA on the Moon

    23:04 Our very different relationships to time

    42:07 Powers of Ten, and seeing clearly in the AI age

    47:48 What would alien life be, and how would we know it?

    58:06 Amy's beginning, and the fragility of life

    1:04:37 The Heart of Evolution, and who we become when we remake the body

    1:08:40 Scary and beautiful: how cultures complete the work

    1:18:15 Perception, and our role in the universe's creativity
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    1 Std. und 24 Min.
  • Mark Solms x Karl Friston | Freud Was a Neuroscientist, and Modern Brain Science Is Proving Him Right

    Mark Solms x Karl Friston | Freud Was a Neuroscientist, and Modern Brain Science Is Proving Him Right
    Aug 4 2026

    What can Freud still teach us about the brain, consciousness, and mental health?Neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Mark Solms joins theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston to explore the connections between Freud’s ideas and modern neuroscience. Using Solms’s book The Only Cure as a starting point, they discuss how our experiences shape the brain’s understanding of the world—and why changing that understanding may be central to mental healing.Their conversation explores talking therapy, psychedelics, consciousness, memory, childhood development, the unconscious mind, curiosity, and the idea that our actions are guided by attempts to meet our needs and reduce uncertainty.———GUESTSMark Solms - Neuropsychologist, Psychoanalyst & AuthorProfessor, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape TownAuthor of The Only Cure and The Hidden Springhttps://neuroscience.uct.ac.za/contac...https://www.simonandschuster.com/auth...Karl Friston - Theoretical Neuroscientist & PsychiatristProfessor of Imaging Neuroscience, University College LondonKnown for the Free Energy Principle and Active Inferencehttps://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/2747-karl-...https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/———Chapters00:00 Meet Mark Solms and Karl Friston02:23 How a psychoanalyst and a neuroscientist joined forces06:12 Freud, Feynman, and a physics of the mind10:23 A 29-year quest to translate Freud, and a new book18:50 Does therapy treat causes while medication treats symptoms?30:49 Where our sense of self and our feelings come from43:27 The hidden design of the mind that Freud could only imagine49:10 Many kinds of memory, and the depth of the mind1:02:20 The unconscious: how much of us runs on autopilot1:15:08 Why our earliest years shape us, even when we cannot recall them1:25:59 "All thinking is wishful thinking"1:32:14 From Freud to Feynman to Friston
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    1 Std. und 33 Min.
  • Designing the Futures We Imagine | Anab Jain & Anand Pandian

    Designing the Futures We Imagine | Anab Jain & Anand Pandian
    Jul 27 2026
    This episode bridges speculative design, anthropology, ecological art, education, environmental ethics, material culture, and futures thinking to ask: how can imagination become a practical tool for building more open, connected, and livable worlds?Anab Jain, co-founder and creative director of Superflux and professor of Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, joins Johns Hopkins anthropologist Anand Pandian, author of Something Between Us and A Possible Anthropology, for a Curiosity Entangled conversation about speculative futures, ecological imagination, design, anthropology, and the more-than-human world. Together, they discuss how immersive experiences can make alternative futures tangible, why boredom and open-mindedness matter, and how art and design can create space for people to form their own relationships with possible worlds.They also explore authoritarianism and the political danger of imagination, Superflux’s future-home installations, the Jones Falls 2076 project in Baltimore, buried urban rivers, the afterlives of discarded objects, and the idea of the “Craftocene”—using craft, repair, and material experimentation to reverse the logic of consumption. Their conversation moves through abandoned vape batteries, aluminum cans, speculative artifacts, future museums, ecological education, community-building, hope, and the challenge of remaining creatively engaged when the future feels overwhelming.⸻TIMESTAMPS00:00:31 - Introductions: speculative design, anthropology, and shared inspiration00:04:35 - Possibility as embodied experience, not just an idea00:08:12 - Boredom, Walter Benjamin, and minds allowed to wander00:12:51 - Open-mindedness, jugaad, and wisdom from rural fieldwork00:23:03 - A lived 2050 apartment and imagination as slow activism00:26:16 - Jones Falls 2076: dreaming a buried river back to life00:34:10 - Telling terrible stories beautifully: loss and the Craftocene00:38:44 - Foraged vapes, burned cans, and reversing supply chains00:44:20 - The Future of Here: a culture built from what we discard00:48:30 - Museums of the future and objects that catch stories01:01:10 - Community, collective organizing, and sustaining hope01:07:46 - Getting unstuck: cognitive precarity and hope as making⸻GUESTSAnab Jain - Designer, Futurist & EducatorCo-Founder and Director, Superflux (London)Professor of Design Investigations, University of Applied Arts Viennahttps://superflux.in/https://superflux.in/index.php/team/a...Anand Pandian - Anthropologist, Professor & AuthorProfessor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins UniversityAuthor of A Possible Anthropology and Reel Worldhttps://anand.studio/https://anthropology.jhu.edu/director...⸻RELATED TOPICSSpeculative design, anthropology, ecological design, ecological imagination, experiential futures, futures thinking, more-than-human world, environmental ethics, open-mindedness, authoritarianism, immersive installations, climate change, storytelling, boredom, material culture, repair, waste, consumerism, Craftocene, Jones Falls 2076, buried rivers, urban ecology, discarded objects, future museums, speculative anthropology, design education, radical pedagogy, community, hope, art and science, longform conversation⸻FOLLOW ACCELERATOR MEDIATwitter/X: https://x.com/xceleratormediaInstagram: / xcelerator.medialinkedin: / accelerator-media-orgwebsite: https://acceleratormedia.org⸻ABOUT CURIOSITY ENTANGLEDCuriosity Entangled pairs distinguished thinkers from different disciplines for unscripted conversations about consciousness, science, technology, and humanity’s long-term future. Hosted by Accelerator Media, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to public engagement with science and long-term thinking.
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    1 Std. und 17 Min.
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