Justin Harnish describes himself as a creator, promoter, and problem solver that loves to deliver the hoped-for future who utilizes science, mindfulness, and storytelling in product development and product management to ensure success. Justin and Jepson discuss AI and its trajectory, and where it stands among actual consciousness, discussing whether it’s truly conscious or not and what it lacks in order to become truly conscious. Justin’s story 1:10AI race being driven by greed or empathy 12:30AI observing Newton’s laws 23:50Is GPT conscious? What is it missing? 30:00When you’d give up fighting that it’s not a synthetic organism 44:20A singular you 55:40Lucid dreaming 63:45Believing in a synthetic consciousness 66:00What makes up a good life 69:15Being your authentic self while also taking feedback from your tribe 81:00AI will change everything for this generation 98:55 “If you can have that intellectual fortitude, if you can be mindful in your worst time so the individual at the TSA doesn’t know that you’re having a bad day, you don’t take it out on the waiter or the waitress, that’s living a good life.” 7:28 www.justinaharnish.com @justinaharnish