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I was so sad to learn of Karen's passing. I was lucky to get to know her recently - thoughtful, kind, brilliant. A truly remarkable person.

This book is gorgeously written and boldly radical. The "condition of planetarity," as @nils_gilman and Jonathan Blake write, compels humans to reinvent institutions toward multispecies flourishing.

🛸 What does it look like to try and communicate across time and space with those who may not have the capacity to receive those messages? Read Future Humans Director Claire Isabel Webb's musings on Dario Robleto’s sculptures. #IdeasMatter berggruen.org/news/reflexive…

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🦭How can we create a political system that includes multispecies participation? At the second meeting of the Multispecies Constitution Project scientists & scholars imagined new values centered on collective intelligences rather than individualized human knowledge. #IdeasMatter

Strong resonances here with the Institute's Planetary and Future Humans programs, led by Jonathan Blake and Claire Isabel Webb, respectively

🪐VASTER THAN EMPIRES 👾 Future Humans and Studio B are proud to announce a science and speculative fiction writing project inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin. The project spawned original art commissions and stories. Check it out!

The excellent ‘Space Feminisms - People, Planets, Power’ is published next month! Edited by Marie-Pier Boucher, Annick Bureaud, and Claire Webb Claire Isabel Webb. bloomsbury.com/us/space-femin… Bloomsbury U.S.

Super excited that @nils_gilman and I get to hand out our book this AM to all our Berggruen Institute colleagues! The book wouldn't have happened with out the ideas and advice from Claire Isabel Webb Benjamin Bratton Kathleen Miles Noema Magazine Lorenzo Marsili and many more!

A wonderful piece in Noema Magazine by Michael Levin. What will life become in the age of AI? noemamag.com/ai-could-be-a-… (It was a pleasure to edit with peter mellgard!)

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Life is definitionally unstable. Sara Imari Walker

AI outputs from training sets reflect the past whereas human actions in the present produce the novel future.

SAVE THE DATE! June 21-22, at Palazzo Diedo, in Venice. *What is Universalism? New philosophy for a multipolar world* Thinkers from all continents will gather for two days of philosophical creation and a public marathon of interviews on universalism led by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Here is the video of my talk to the 2024 Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson. I argue that consciousness does not have a physical substrate, but it does create a physical headset. youtube.com/watch?v=_YK4ML…

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We now have a precise assembly algorithm that can calculate the assembly space of Taxol. Here it is & it only took 45 mins! Taxol MA =23 #assemblytheory

Come say hi! 3 pm tomorrow at SCI-Arc I’ll be talking about technologies of visual perception from ancient times to today are shaping human futures.