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Alien Minds, Time Travelers, and Consciousness Backups: A Futures Thought Experiment

Podcast: Modem Futura
Published: Jun 2, 2026
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Summary

Sean and Andrew improvise their way through three AI-generated scenarios — a hallucinating alien planet, a sad time traveler with one answer, and a nightly consciousness backup that starts dreaming on its own. A playful episode that ends up asking some seriously strange questions about mind, identity, and what we'd do if first contact didn't look like contact at all.