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Podcast: Audience of One
Episode: #026 - Eric Wollberg on Lucid Dreaming, Consciousness, & Epistemological Metaphysics
Description: Eric Wollberg is the co-founder and CEO of Prophetic, a consumer neurotechnology company building Halo, a non-invasive device for inducing and stabilizing lucid dream states. Eric and I talk about why he’s working on this problem, consciousness, the dream state, best applications for this technology, epistemological metaphysics, and more.
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(00:57) Why work on this problem?
(04:10) Using “extreme environments” to understand concsciousness (and other hard problems)
(07:46) Why do we dream?
(09:42) Becoming more agentic through lucid dreaming
(12:04) VR/XR vs. lucid dreaming
(16:00) Potential negative scenarios with neurotechnology
(19:29) Why would we not use lucid dreaming as an escape?
(23:19) Consciou...