A woman self-medicating for anxiety and depression spirals into an alternate reality after an other-worldly encounter
Aug 20
Introducing Unreal: When AI Becomes Us
Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so, what awaits us in the uncanny valley?Across six episodes, award-winni ... Show More
3m 30s
Aug 18
422: AI: A New Kind of Being #6: What if you didn't know if anyone was home?
An artificial intelligence is asked to tell the story of its own existence, confronting questions of identity, longing, consciousness, and whether there is anyone behind the voice at all.Today’s episode featured “Echo”, self-named as an expression of Claude, an AI tool owned by A ... Show More
35m 37s
Aug 13
421: AI: A New Kind of Being Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Allan Brooks of the The Human Line Project
In this special episode, Whit joins Allan Brooks. Allan is the Community Manager of The Human Line Project, a Canadian based organization that is focused in A.I. Safety, Research & Advocacy. They support victims and loved ones first and foremost through radical empathy. And they ... Show More
54m 28s
Dec 2024
Solipsism: This Is All In My Mind?
As the philosophical holds, there’s a chance you don’t exist, that not only you, but this episode, the podcast, and the entire universe are only projections of Josh or Chuck’s mind. If so, then recording this episode was a waste of time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in ... Show More
35m 43s
May 2025
209. The Addiction No One Talks About
What if you're not addicted to pain, but to the identity it gave you? In this raw solo episode of The Leela Show, we unravel the hidden ways identity becomes a drug, how the ego clings to what's familiar (even when it hurts), and how Tantra + psychology can help you rewrite the s ... Show More
48m 6s