Ep. 43: What is Your Utopia?

In this episode, the three co-hosts describe their very different concepts of utopia. Episode notes: Mormon Utopia Is modern society the past’s utopia? What is consciousness? Do any two people imagine the same utopia? Ray’s utopia: all people become one unified energy outside of time Matryoshka Brain Static vs. dynamic world Luis’s utopia of work and leisure as choices Is a utopia a perfect world, and if so, can imperfect people live in it? Are we capable of imagining a true utopia? Will we overcome mortality, or at least aging? What are you willing to give up to achieve utopia? Forms of government Commercial: Utopios Utopia in pop culture: Star Trek Death in utopia Are we already living in a utopia? Moral agency AI of the future