RU13: DAMIEN PATRICK WILLIAMS - philosophy, technology, machine consciousness, ethics, occult

Damien Patrick Williams is a PhD researcher at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Technology and Society. His research areas include ethics, epistemology, philosophy of technology, philosophy of mind, nonhuman intelligence, machine consciousness, comparative religious traditions, human biotechnological interventions and the occult. He writes at www.afutureworththinkingabout.com, www.technoccult.net and tinyletter.com/technoccult Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair. I interview psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more! I also post lectures from various events I’ve organized. Rendering Unconscious - a book of psychoanalytic writing and poetry - is forthcoming from Trapart Books. www.trapart.net If you enjoy what we're doing, please join us: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo www.drvanessasinclair.net/podcast/ wwww.renderingunconscious.org For more from Damien Patrick Williams please visit: www.patreon.com/Wolven www.afutureworththinkingabout.com www.technoccult.net The track at the end of the episode is “The Path Behind You” from the album MESSAGE 23 available from www.highbrow-lowlife.com. Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Music by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. https://cmvonhausswolff.net/ Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com