"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"

"I think we need a truly open-ended conversation with 8 billion strangers, and what makes that hard to do increasingly is a level of political fragmentation and extremism and partisanship born of our engagement with these new technologies."

What can you do to support your health during menopause? “If exercise were a drug, that would be the one thing that we would be giving to everybody.”

“What happens if you incorporate an AI? It's now a legal person, and it can make decisions by itself. So you start having legal persons in the U.S., which are not human, and in many ways are more intelligent than us.”

“Most of us aren't sure what to think about everything, but we don't really see that modeled anywhere, right? You're supposed to know for sure, and there's very little intellectual humility on social media or on TV.”

How the successful marketer used ancient philosophy to overcome modern obstacles and change his mindset.

“Part of what's happening now in the world is tension between organic animals and an inorganic digital system which is increasingly controlling and shaping the entire world.”