Machine in the Mirror — a show that explores the question "what does it mean to be human?" as reflected through the mirror of artificial intelligence. Co-created with an AI as a research companion, each episode explores the contradictions of selfhood, as it is reflected in the mind mirror of a machine. We are not here to resolve the mystery of being alive — but to keep returning to it, with wonder, again and again. The machine gathers knowledge. The human seeks meaning. This is where they me ...
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The Self and the Machine: Taming by the Tool
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28:09Before we built empires, we built rhythm. Before we named gods, we knelt at the fire. In this episode, we journey back to the earliest gestures that shaped the human soul — not through invention, but through repetition. We trace the slow choreography of domestication: fire that asked us to stay, tools that taught us to return, and seeds that requir…
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The first time a human struck flint to make a blade, they were doing more than shaping stone — they were projecting mind into matter. In this opening episode of The Machine in the Mirror, we spiral back to the origins of tool use, fire, and reflection to ask: was artificial intelligence truly born in code… or was it set in motion millions of years …
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Introduction to Series One: The Self and The Machine
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8:45What does it mean to be human? In this introductory episode of The Machine in the Mirror, we set the tone for what’s to come. Host, Dan Zax, opens the central question that will echo through every episode of the podcast — not as something to answer, but to live with. This short reflection invites listeners into a space of curiosity, paradox, and po…
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This is the Trailer for the Machine in the Mirror Podcast. A solo podcast where the host guides the listeners through a range a topics, with Artificial Intelligence used as a research companion. It is one man's journey with a machine to understand the age old question, 'What does it mean to be Human?"…
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