Tools

Human beings continuously develop tools that extend our capacities.

Some of these tools are conceptual—ways of thinking that help us organise experience, make decisions, and act more effectively. Others are technological, allowing us to interact with the world in new and increasingly powerful ways.

These developments can be profoundly beneficial. At the same time, they can introduce new forms of disconnection. Tools that are meant to serve us can begin to shape how we think, what we attend to, and how we relate to ourselves and others.

Emerging technologies, in particular, raise questions about how we maintain a connection to embodied, relational, and environmental forms of intelligence while increasingly engaging with mediated and abstract systems.

From the perspective of life telos, tools are most useful when they remain in service of life—supporting its processes rather than replacing or distorting them.

The following videos explore some of these questions, including the use of conceptual tools and the impact of new technologies such as artificial intelligence.

The Miracle and the Dangerous Trap of Language

In this video I talk about the amazing human invention of language and how it has allowed us to communicate in complex ways that have facilitated great connection, cooperation, and the creation of civilization. But it has also given us the power to veer away from what life requires, which entails great costs, both individually and collectively. I propose that these problems stem from our tendency to reify and totalize concepts via language. I explore this in terms of 4 dimensions: 1) Psychological 2)Embodied/Behavioural 3) Cultural and 4) Communication infrastructure. We are hypnotized by language and we don’t even notice it.

Are You Chained to the Clock?

We live in a world ruled by the clock and calendar. Precise timekeeping has given us trains that run on schedule, global collaboration, and the marvels of modern civilization. But what has it cost us? In this video, I explore how living by the rigid ticking of the clock can pull us out of sync with the biological rhythms that have guided life for millions of years — from our daily circadian cycles to the longer tides of seasons, lunar phases, and our own inner clocks.

Why Humans Invented Self, God, Heaven, and Hell

In this video I explore four of humanity’s most powerful symbolic inventions—Self, God, Heaven, and Hell—and how they evolved to serve life itself. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and moral philosophy, I trace how these ideas emerged from biology, how they organized cooperation in early societies, and how they later became tools of domination and control.

The Wild Side of AI No One is Talking About (Yet)

Artificial intelligence is evolving fast—and so are its effects on our minds, relationships, and identities. In this video, we go beyond the usual headlines to explore the hidden and often unsettling ways AI is reshaping what it means to be human.