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0:00 Overtime teaser
0:43 Boris’s background and new book, Our Planetary Mirror
3:43 Three ways of seeing the planet—and us
12:47 Resurveying the Gaia “hypothesis”
20:31 Dawkins’s case against Gaia
27:16 Is humanity outgrowing its planetary parent?
32:57 The noosphere: Teilhard vs Vernadsky
48:46 Can we reason our way to global solidarity?
53:58 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Boris Shoshitaishvili (Our Planetary Mirror). Recorded October 15, 2026.
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Overtime titles:
Does cosmopolitanism need better myths?
The dark side of planetary thinking.
Towards a “giant organic love blob”?
Bob the virtue ethicist, Boris the aesthete.
The global vs the planetary.
When climate fixes backfire.
Are we AI’s fossil fuel?
The Victorian who saw AI coming.
Overtime video:
