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Season One concludes with a look at the teleological, or "who and why," questions within computational theology. A computational creation myth.

The Season One finale of the WTSIT subcast, in which time is shown to be something the volitiotemporal effect produces, not something CPUs consume. Also: Theseus versus the Minotaur; the demise of the post office in Empire, Nevada; and a declaration that the stack is dead, long live the stack frame; and a reminder that Terence McKenna's novelty theory is the reason this podcast exists.

Another roadtripping/political episode in which Iorek speaks, Mos Eisley from the original "Star Wars" is discovered to still exist in north Florida, the Confederate flag is discussed, and abortion arguments are reframed to discard lives and souls in favor of consciousness.

I fix a bug in the last episode, about volition; and describe how it, too, has a wave/particle duality.

Legendary computer scientists Danny Hillis and George Dyson wish more people would treat computer science like physicists. In this episode, I present my guess as to what stops scientists from engaging such "digital physics," and throw my hat into the ring as a practitioner of that field.

We all seem to agree the thing "common sense" is supposed to refer to doesn't exist, so let's kill that phrase... or at least, redefine it. Also, climate change, and roadtripping.

Who *is* this guy?

An "overture" laying out the themes that keep me up at night: the destruction of my atheism at the hands of ayahuasca, wrestling with what Terence McKenna called "the balkanization of epistemology," and trying to sift through Novelty Theory and how it can be brought into the fold of real science.