The Life Cycle
We have reached the forth season of The Life Cycle! July 21, 2026 sees SEED move into Early Access, and to celebrate we wanted to share a chapter from The Radix, the backstory of SEED. We plan to have a rolling schedule of podcasts going forward, as we continue to talk to experts in science, AI, philisophy as well as game development, as we continue to look at the future of humanity and what it means for SEED - and indeed all of us.
In the third season we bring the podcast right down to earth and get in deep with the things that matter to us all and our collective future. And what better way to do that than to have long, engaged conversations with some brilliant people? We talk food, we talk fertility, we talk about life online and we also visit the site of one of humanity’s most exciting endeavors: the mission to create nuclear fusion here on Earth, and harness the power of the Sun itself! Beginning with a chat with Klang CEO Mundi Vondi, this season promises to deepen our understanding of the life cycle, and just what it is we’re all doing here….
John Holten is a novelist and Klang Game’s Narrative Director. His novels include The Trains of Europe (2024), Oslo, Norway (2015) and The Readymades (2011). His writing has recently appeared in Welt am Sonntag, frieze, and The Stinging Fly.
Eva Kelley is a journalist and writer. Her writing focuses on contemporary culture and has appeared in publications such as 032c, ZEITMagazin, Interview Magazine, Hearts, and on SSENSE.com among others.
The Life Cycle
E6: DON'T YOU KNOW I'M LOCO?
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Is your brain a machine? Are your thoughts and feelings just malware of the mind? But what is 'really' is a machine? Welcome listeners to the transhumanist fight of the century. In the blue corner, we have Eva meeting founder and CEO of Kernel, Bryan Johnson, straight from his office in LA. And in the red corner, John meets with writer Mark O'Connell in a cafe in Dublin. Time to get out the popcorn! Round One, ding-ding...
Featuring Founder and CEO of Kernel, Bryan Johnson. And writer Mark O'Connell, author of To Be a Machine.
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