Ancient Sensemaking in a Digital House of Mirrors

Schedule

Fri Sep 19 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

81 Broadway St | Asheville, NC

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Dr. Zak Stein in conversation with Nora Bateson for a Special Event
About this Event

The International Bateson Insitute and the Civilisation Research Institute presents a special evening lecture with Dr. Zak Stein and Nora Bateson

The deep analog processes of cognition and learning require coalescing information well beyond the digital "superinteligence" of AI. The way human beings learn to be in the world, in relationship with their bodies, the environment, their culture, and other people is necessarily complex. But what happens when ancient sensemaking is hooked into the deprivation of a digital house of mirrors? What might be the ways to practice becoming less susceptible to artificial intelligence's artificial seduction of that which makes us alive?


About the Speakers:

Nora Bateson is an educator, writer, and artist who uses multiple forms expression in her teaching on how ecological systems change. She is the creator of Warm Data and the Warm Data Lab practices which are used worldwide toward shifting perception and cognition to include the interrealtionships in complex systems. The warm data work is currently used in communities around the world as they face polycrisis or metacrisis of these times polticially, financially, ecologically, medically, emotionally, technologically and intellectually.


Dr. Zachary Stein is a Co-Founder of the Civilization Research Institute and the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. He was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education, and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. He is a widely sought-after and award-winning speaker and a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development.


All ticket sales from this event are being donated to local causes.

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81 Broadway St, 81 Broadway Street, Asheville, United States

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