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Transcript of Currents 041: Jonathan Rowson on Our Metacrisis Pickle



The following is a rough transcript which has not been revised by The Jim Rutt Show or by Jonathan Rowson. Please check with us before using any quotations from this transcript. Thank you. Jim: Today’s guest is Jonathan Rowson. Jonathan is the cofounder and director for Perspectiva. He was previously director of the Social Brain … Continue reading Transcript of Currents 041: Jonathan Rowson on Our Metacrisis Pickle


Transcript of EP 342 – Worldviews: Jordan Hall on Reality as Relationship and Why the Dead Are Still With Us



The following is a rough transcript which has not been revised by The Jim Rutt Show or Jordan Hall. Please check with us before using any quotations from this transcript. Thank you. Jim: This episode is one of a series I’m doing on the worldviews of thinkers and doers. The premise is simple. I want … Continue reading Transcript of EP 342 – Worldviews: Jordan Hall on Reality as Relationship and Why the Dead Are Still With Us


EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance



Jim talks with Rufus Pollock—entrepreneur, activist, Zen practitioner, founder of Life Itself and the Open Knowledge Foundation, and author of Open Revolution—about the metacrisis, the wisdom gap, and what a Second Renaissance might look like. They discuss Jim’s own early belief that accessible information would produce a renaissance of democracy, the realization that “open knowledge … Continue reading EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance


Transcript of EP 336 – Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance



The following is a rough transcript which has not been revised by The Jim Rutt Show or Rufus Pollock. Please check with us before using any quotations from this transcript. Thank you. Jim: Rufus is an entrepreneur, activist, and author, as well as a long-term Zen practitioner. He is passionate about finding wiser, weller ways … Continue reading Transcript of EP 336 – Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance


EP 335 Worldviews: Samantha Sweetwater



Jim talks with Samantha Sweetwater about her book True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World and the question of what it means to be human at this moment in planetary history. They discuss her verb-based rather than noun-based self-identity, Lisa Feldman Barrett’s construction theory as a framework for understanding the entanglement of … Continue reading EP 335 Worldviews: Samantha Sweetwater


Transcript of EP 335 – Worldviews: Samantha Sweetwater



The following is a rough transcript which has not been revised by The Jim Rutt Show or Samantha Sweetwater. Please check with us before using any quotations from this transcript. Thank you. Jim Rutt: Today’s guest is Samantha Sweetwater. Samantha is a master facilitator, executive coach, author, and founder of One Life Circle, a ministry … Continue reading Transcript of EP 335 – Worldviews: Samantha Sweetwater


Transcript of EP 314 – Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything



The following is a rough transcript which has not been revised by The Jim Rutt Show, Zak Stein, or Marc Gafni. Please check with us before using any quotations from this transcript. Thank you. Jim: Today’s guests are Zak Stein and Marc Gafni. Zak’s a writer, educator, and futurist working to bring a greater sense … Continue reading Transcript of EP 314 – Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything


EP 273 Gregg Henriques on the Unified Theory of Knowledge



Jim talks with Gregg Henriques about his new book UTOK: The Unified Theory of Knowledge. They discuss the problem the book addresses, 3 vectors of knowing, the metacrisis, avoiding despair & techno-optimism, the enlightenment gap, the iQuad coin, the UTOK garden frame, a descriptive metaphysics for science, behavior & mind, endo-naturalism, 3 kinds of mindedness, webs … Continue reading EP 273 Gregg Henriques on the Unified Theory of Knowledge


EP 229 Jonathan Rowson on the Antidebate



Jim talks with Jonathan Rowson of Perspectiva about a new social practice they’re creating, the antidebate. They discuss the nature of debate, the spectacle of endemic polarization, why debate may be irredeemable, multiple ways of knowing, the Oxford Union debates, the debate apocalypse of 2020, the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debate, the elitist aspect of debates, longtermism, … Continue reading EP 229 Jonathan Rowson on the Antidebate