{"id":162018,"date":"2023-04-12T16:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/podcast-a-conversation-with-frank-white"},"modified":"2023-04-12T16:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:26:26","slug":"podcast-a-conversation-with-frank-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/podcast-a-conversation-with-frank-white","title":{"rendered":"(podcast) A conversation with Frank White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fnb6ba0k2s0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whether this \u201ccomplements or contradicts existing religious value systems depends largely on the interpretation of those systems by the people who have adopted them,\u201d said Frank. \u201cHowever, my interviews with astronauts of faith suggest that their religious perspective was strengthened, rather than being weakened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank notes that his cosmology has parallels with Yuval Harari \u2019s \u201cdataism,\u201d described by Harari as the \u201cmost interesting emerging religion.\u201d Dataism, as defined by Harari, \u201csays that the universe consists of data flows, and the value of any phenomenon or entity is determined by its contribution to data processing.\u201d This may sound kind of cold and metallic, but if life is an algorithm and self-awareness is data processing the parallels with Frank\u2019s ideas are evident.<\/p>\n<p>At the MVA webinar there wasn\u2019t time to address all the points I wanted to discuss with Frank. So I had this new conversation with him. Please find below my comments and questions (all related to space philosophy, cosmic metaphysics, and religion), and listen to hear Frank\u2019s thoughtful replies and other points that came up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether this \u201ccomplements or contradicts existing religious value systems depends largely on the interpretation of those systems by the people who have adopted them,\u201d said Frank. \u201cHowever, my interviews with astronauts of faith suggest that their religious perspective was strengthened, rather than being weakened.\u201d Frank notes that his cosmology has parallels with Yuval Harari \u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}