The Overview Effect Lectures- Peter Watts

With Lydia Kallipoliti, Ben Goertzel, Peter Watts, Stephanie Wakefield as guests. The Overview Effect lecture series is positioned as a survey of some of the key operational themes critical to post planetary and universal design. Bringing together an architect / engineer / historian, an AI developer / mathematician / philosopher, a science fiction author / marine biologist, and a transdisciplinary geographer / ecologist, we engage the question of how disciplinary boundaries can be effectively and critically reshaped towards a universal modality of design thinking. Peter Watts is a former marine biologist, flesh-eating-disease survivor and convicted felon (long story) whose novels— notwithstanding an unhealthy focus on space vampires— have become required texts for university courses ranging from Philosophy to Neuropsychology. His work is available in 23 languages, has appeared in 32 best-of-year anthologies, and been nominated for 59 awards. His (somewhat shorter) list of 22 actual wins includes