Encounters unfolds as a series of philosophical episodes organized into three seasons.

Each episode is a self-contained inquiry. Rather than offering answers, episodes are designed to help readers and viewers think carefully about questions, situations, and tensions that shape human judgment, responsibility, and ways of living.

Episodes may be approached individually or as part of a larger arc. Together, they form a sustained philosophical exploration of what it means to be human under contemporary conditions.

Seasons:

Season I — What does it mean to be human in the age of AI (Public)

Season II — Meaning of Life (Seminars)

Season III — Religion and the Question of Meaning (Forthcoming)

Season I - What does it mean to be human in the age of AI (Public Series)

Season I is released publicly in its entirety.
It explores how technology, power, and artificial intelligence shape human judgment, responsibility, and self-understanding.

Across its parts, Season I brings together philosophy, psychology, and historical cases to examine intelligence, language, truth, persuasion, obedience, and moral limits. Rather than focusing on a single thinker, the episodes draw on multiple perspectives to illuminate shared human conditions.

Encounters — Season I Trailer (New. Released March 2026)
An introduction to Season I and its guiding question:
What does it mean to be human in the age of AI?

Part I — Temptation, Power, and Human Limits

Part I examines how human judgment is shaped—and often distorted—by temptation, authority, conformity, and social influence. The episodes ask why ordinary people so often act against what they themselves believe to be right.

Episode 1 — Gyges (New. Released March 2026)
What restrains us when no one is watching, and why moral judgment is tested by invisibility.

Episode 2 — Milgram and the Banality of Evil (New. Released March 2026)
How obedience to authority can override conscience without cruelty or malicious intent.

Episode 3 — Reciprocity
Why the expectation of returning favors quietly governs moral and social behavior.

Episode 4 — Commitment and Consistency
How small commitments reshape identity and bind future choices.

Episode 5 — Social Proof
Why we look to others to decide what is true, right, or acceptable.

Episode 6 — Liking
How familiarity and affection influence judgment more than we tend to admit.

Episode 7 — Authority
Why symbols of authority command obedience even when reasons are unclear.

Episode 8 — Scarcity
How perceived lack intensifies desire and narrows moral perspective.

Episode 9 — Unity
How belonging strengthens loyalty while weakening critical distance.

Episode 10 — Misbelief
Why false beliefs persist even when evidence is available.

Episode 11 — Arendt and Frankl
How thinking, responsibility, and the search for meaning can resist moral collapse.

Part II — AI and the Human Question

Part II focuses explicitly on artificial intelligence and its implications for how we understand intelligence, language, truth, and meaning. These episodes ask what happens when human capacities are redefined in computational terms—and what remains irreducibly human.

I. Foundations: How Machine Intelligence Emerged

Episode 12 — The Birth of Artificial Reasoning
How intelligence came to be defined as calculation, rule-following, and functional performance, and how this definition shaped early AI.

Episode 13 — Wittgenstein’s Shadow
How meaning depends on use and context, and how this view of language exposes limits in the way AI systems are designed.

Episode 14 — Architecture of Truth
What makes something true, how different theories of truth answer that question, and why AI handles truth differently from human judgment.

Episode 15 — Mathematics of Meaning
How statistical patterns and probabilities allow machines to generate language without understanding what that language means.

II. Challenges: Mind, Knowledge, and Human Identity

Episode 16 — The Extended Mind
Where the human mind ends and its tools begin, and how the idea of extended cognition raises questions about whether machines can participate in thought without possessing lived experience.

Episode 17 — The Black Box of Knowledge
How AI produces answers without transparent reasoning, and what this reveals about the nature of knowledge, understanding, and explanation.

III. Horizons: The Future of Humanity

Episode 18 — The Singularity Question
Whether machines might one day surpass human intelligence, and how this possibility challenges ideas of freedom, responsibility, and human uniqueness.

Episode 19 — Beyond the Human?
The promises and dangers of transhumanism, and whether overcoming human limits might also erase the conditions that give life meaning.

IV. Responsibility: Power, Ethics, and Governance

Episode 20 — AI, Power, and Responsibility
How intelligent systems reshape political authority, economic power, and social decision-making—and why the future of AI ultimately depends on human judgment.

Part III — Judgement, Meaning, and the Limits of the Human

Part III turns from questions of human vulnerability and technological power toward deeper philosophical traditions and the problem of human judgment and meaning.

These episodes draw on classical and modern thinkers to reflect on human limits, responsibility, and the conditions under which a human life can be meaningful.

Rather than searching for technical solutions, this part asks how human beings orient themselves in a world increasingly shaped by intelligent machines.