{"id":234669,"date":"2026-04-06T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/we-are-as-gods-steven-kotler-on-our-godlike-power-stone-age-minds"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:02:29","slug":"we-are-as-gods-steven-kotler-on-our-godlike-power-stone-age-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/we-are-as-gods-steven-kotler-on-our-godlike-power-stone-age-minds","title":{"rendered":"We Are As Gods: Steven Kotler on Our Godlike Power, Stone Age Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-are-as-gods-steven-kotler-on-our-godlike-power-stone-age-minds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/2297411714-singularity1on1-we-are-as-gods.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Do we have godlike responsibility to match?<\/p>\n<p>In this third conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenkotler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven Kotler<\/a> \u2014 our first in 14 years \u2014 we dig into his latest book, <em>We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance<\/em>, co-written with Peter Diamandis. And while the book makes a powerful case for abundance, I came prepared to challenge it.<\/p>\n<p>Because abundance without purpose, as Kotler himself argues, is not salvation. It is a different kind of crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we have godlike responsibility to match? In this third conversation with Steven Kotler \u2014 our first in 14 years \u2014 we dig into his latest book, We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, co-written with Peter Diamandis. And while the book makes a powerful case for abundance, I came [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-peter-diamandis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234669","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}