# Third wave Existentialism \[CCafe 9/18\]

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**Created:** [September 17, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/third-wave-existentialism-ccafe-9-18/2434 "2018-09-17T19:12:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/third-wave-existentialism-ccafe-9-18/2434/24 "2018-09-24T18:28:53Z")

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Great to see your articulate responses @takingtigermountain. @achronon corrected me while in the discussion when I said AI could think or know, and your writing above reflects my own thinking on the matter, in a better show of wordsmanship.

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> These revealed patterns and connections could be applied for the good in our lives; but my concern is whether I am going to be able to decide what to do with that information. I may want to ignore it because it is more important to me to be autonomous than to be “healthy” or behave optimally.

I too wish for myself and others to always hold close the idea of control over our own information. Personally, I am too poor to be influenced by online product placements…too patternless on internet usage to be defined…yet still, it is all too easy for others to define me, to utilize even the littlest bits of information, whether now or in the future. @Mark_Jabbour has frequently stated that raising a child in the current wild world seems more difficult than ever…good luck to you young parents! Teach your children well. Just because it is out there does not mean we have to blindly participate.

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> Google’s “Selfish Ledger” video

If you haven’t checked this Cosmos Cafe episode out below, my personal algorithmic thinking has deciphered that you have an 80% chance of enjoying the content, though by enjoy I mean become even more aware of the need to be engaged and vigilant in our tragically comedic world.

> [@Cosmos Café: Stare into the lights my pretties—a talk with filmmaker Jordan Brown \[2018.02.20\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-stare-into-the-lights-my-pretties-a-talk-with-filmmaker-jordan-brown-2-20/1737):
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> [[Cosmos Café: Stare into the lights my pretties – a talk with filmmaker Jordan Brown] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1JaJSL57gs) [[download](http://archive.org/download/ic-cosmos-cafe-011-s/IC-Cosmos-Cafe-011-Stare-Into-the-Lights_128kbps-stereo.mp3)] Overview The Café crew talks with filmmaker Jordan Brown about his new documentary, “Stare into the lights my pretties…” which looks critically at the rise of “screen culture,” and how our widespread obsession with screen-based devices affects our consciousness and brains; our human and ecological relationships; and the concentration of economic and political power.

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