Machine in the Mirror Podcast by Dan Zax

Episodes 8

Avg. Duration 21m

Activity Dormant

Since May 2025

Latest Episode Aug 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule

Every 2 Weeks

Format

Episodic

Consistency

95%

Hosting

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About This Podcast

Machine in the Mirror — a show that explores the question "what does it mean to be human?" as reflected through the mirror of artificial intelligence. Co-created with an AI as a research companion, each episode explores the contradictions of selfhood, as it is reflected in the mind mirror of a machine. We are not here to resolve the mystery of being alive — but to keep returning to it, with wonder, again and again. The machine gathers knowledge. The human seeks meaning. This is where they meet. This is not a tech podcast. It’s a human one.

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Recent Episodes

The Self and the Machine: Stone, Steel and Sundials. The Alchemy of Empire

Aug 18, 2025 27m

Empire lives less in armies than in the quiet architectures of space and time. From temples and railways to clocks and networks, this episode explores how stone, steel, and schedules reshape not only…

The Self and the Machine: The Wheel of Progress

Aug 03, 2025 29m

The wheel didn’t just move us forward — it changed how we imagined movement itself.From ancient chariots and imperial roads to railways, factories, and fiber optics, this episode traces the strange,…

The Self and the Machine: The First Spell — Writing the World into Being

Jul 20, 2025 23m

Every civilization begins with two things: a weapon… and a word.In this episode, we follow the word.Not as tool or code, but as spell — a ritual act of binding, remembering, and conjuring meaning…

The Self and the Machine: Weapons of Separation

Jul 10, 2025 28m

Before the sword, there was the wall. Before the warrior, the hoarder. This episode traces the ancient and enduring shift from tool to weapon, from relation to possession, from gesture to threat.…

The Self and the Machine: Taming by the Tool

Jul 02, 2025 28m Transcript

Before we built empires, we built rhythm.Before we named gods, we knelt at the fire.In this episode, we journey back to the earliest gestures that shaped the human soul — not through invention, but…

The Self and The Machine: Fire and Flint

May 26, 2025 20m

The first time a human struck flint to make a blade, they were doing more than shaping stone — they were projecting mind into matter. In this opening episode of The Machine in the Mirror, we spiral…

Introduction to Series One: The Self and The Machine

May 26, 2025 8m

What does it mean to be human?In this introductory episode of The Machine in the Mirror, we set the tone for what’s to come. Host, Dan Zax, opens the central question that will echo through every…

Machine in the Mirror Trailer

May 26, 2025 2m Trailer

This is the Trailer for the Machine in the Mirror Podcast. A solo podcast where the host guides the listeners through a range a topics, with Artificial Intelligence used as a research companion. It…

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Machine in the Mirror has published 8 episodes since May 2025, covering topics in History, Technology.

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Machine in the Mirror is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 21m.

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