The Jim Rutt Show Podcast
1) 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 disc...Show More
2) EP 334 Worldviews: Joscha Bach
Jim talks with cognitive scientist and AI researcher Joscha Bach about the computational and representational foundations of consciousness, mind, and reality. They discuss the phenomenology of waking ...Show More
3) EP 333 Worldviews: Iain McGilchrist
In this Worldviews episode, Jim talks with Iain McGilchrist about consciousness, matter, and the nature of reality. They discuss consciousness as the basis of everything we know, matter as a phase of ...Show More
4) EP 332 Worldviews: Jim Rutt
In a special edition of the new Worldviews series, Brendan Graham Dempsey asks Jim about his life and worldview using a faith development interview. They discuss Jim's life chapters from growing up th...Show More
5) EP 331 Worldviews: Michael Shermer
Jim talks with Michael Shermer about his worldview and his new book, Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters. They discuss Michael's self-identification as a monist and realist who...Show More
6) EP 330 Worldviews: Ben Goertzel
Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about his worldview. They discuss Ben's morning experience of consciousness crystallizing from ambient awareness, his identification as a panpsychic, the concept of pattern...Show More
7) EP 329 Worldviews: David Krakauer
In the inaugural episode of a new series, Jim talks with David Krakauer about his intellectual formation and worldview. They discuss what woke up as David this morning, his commitments to chance and p...Show More
8) EP 328 Brendan Graham Dempsey Interviews Jim Rutt on Minimum Viable Metaphysics
In this flipped episode, Brendan Graham Dempsey interviews Jim about the ideas in his recent Substack essays "A Minimum Viable Metaphysics" and "What I Mean by 'Metaphysics'." They discuss metaphysics...Show More
EP 328 Brendan Graham Dempsey Interviews Jim Rutt on Minimum Viable Metaphysics
55:58 | Nov 4th, 2025
9) EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Jim talks with Nate Soares about the ideas in his and Eliezer Yudkowsky's book If Anybody Builds It, Everybody Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. They discuss the book's claim that mitigating ...Show More
10) EP 326 Alex Ebert on New Age, Manifestation, and Collective Hallucination
Jim talks with Alex Ebert about the ideas in his Substack essay "New Age and the Religion of Self: The Anatomy of a Rebellion Against Reality." They discuss the meanings of New Age and religion, the N...Show More
EP 326 Alex Ebert on New Age, Manifestation, and Collective Hallucination
1:13:47 | Oct 14th, 2025