Michael Garfield
@michaelgarfield.bsky.social
Author, artist, father, scholar, Global Weirding tour guide. Once a paleontologist and still a songwriter + experimental guitarist. Former SFI, Long Now, Mozilla. Writing on bio, psych, tech, and wisdom @ HumansOnTheLoop.com
Thanks! And they had it going on.
July 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Thanks! And they had it going on.
John Lilly's Reality Protocols, 1977, reproduced in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics, 2015, Chapter 5: Reality Reviewed (which alone is worth the price of the book)
June 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
John Lilly's Reality Protocols, 1977, reproduced in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics, 2015, Chapter 5: Reality Reviewed (which alone is worth the price of the book)
William Irwin Thompson, Passages About Earth (1973) p151
May 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
William Irwin Thompson, Passages About Earth (1973) p151
"Science hides a not-knowing in a knowing."
New ep of #HumansOnTheLoop on #ScaleTheory and the tension between colonialism and mysticism in #science and #philosophy, the #magic of #computers, the #embodiment of information, and the wickedness of #complexsystems:
michaelgarfield.substack.com/h-15
New ep of #HumansOnTheLoop on #ScaleTheory and the tension between colonialism and mysticism in #science and #philosophy, the #magic of #computers, the #embodiment of information, and the wickedness of #complexsystems:
michaelgarfield.substack.com/h-15
April 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Science hides a not-knowing in a knowing."
New ep of #HumansOnTheLoop on #ScaleTheory and the tension between colonialism and mysticism in #science and #philosophy, the #magic of #computers, the #embodiment of information, and the wickedness of #complexsystems:
michaelgarfield.substack.com/h-15
New ep of #HumansOnTheLoop on #ScaleTheory and the tension between colonialism and mysticism in #science and #philosophy, the #magic of #computers, the #embodiment of information, and the wickedness of #complexsystems:
michaelgarfield.substack.com/h-15
🙏🏼 Big thanks to everyone for their praise of my new single! It's always a gambit to release intellectual psych-folk about trippy futurism and complexity but it's also a pretty vacant niche and it's what I love to do.
Hope you like it too!
michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/the-big-ma...
Hope you like it too!
michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/the-big-ma...
April 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🙏🏼 Big thanks to everyone for their praise of my new single! It's always a gambit to release intellectual psych-folk about trippy futurism and complexity but it's also a pretty vacant niche and it's what I love to do.
Hope you like it too!
michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/the-big-ma...
Hope you like it too!
michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/the-big-ma...
Just finished Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch Trilogy. Incredible! Who else has read this? I want to riff with someone eloquent about the world building on my show.
March 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Just finished Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch Trilogy. Incredible! Who else has read this? I want to riff with someone eloquent about the world building on my show.
📯Okay, I'm coining it:
The Metacrisis needs Metasolutions, approaches that ask if we're solving the right problem in the first place. You've got more answers than you want; what you need is better questions.
The Metacrisis needs Metasolutions, approaches that ask if we're solving the right problem in the first place. You've got more answers than you want; what you need is better questions.
March 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📯Okay, I'm coining it:
The Metacrisis needs Metasolutions, approaches that ask if we're solving the right problem in the first place. You've got more answers than you want; what you need is better questions.
The Metacrisis needs Metasolutions, approaches that ask if we're solving the right problem in the first place. You've got more answers than you want; what you need is better questions.
Members Hangout TODAY 3/15 @ 3 pm MT!
Find the others and let's make culture.
michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/hangout-31...
Find the others and let's make culture.
michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/hangout-31...
March 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Members Hangout TODAY 3/15 @ 3 pm MT!
Find the others and let's make culture.
michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/hangout-31...
Find the others and let's make culture.
michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/hangout-31...
Shel Silverstein wrote a poem about ChatGPT in 1981
March 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Shel Silverstein wrote a poem about ChatGPT in 1981
That's hilarious: I was just about to share this with you and then...
March 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
That's hilarious: I was just about to share this with you and then...