PETE SACCO; The Man Building AI Says Consciousness Is the Real Technology; Author, ‘The Bridge’; Entrepreneur; Technologist; Modern Day Mystic; LIVE from NJ

About this episode

Calvin Schwartz interviews Pete Sacco about the intersection of AI and consciousness, exploring how technology impacts humanity.

#realconversations #AI #mystic #technologist #football#RutgersNewark #consciousness #parasympathetic #author CONVERSATIONS WITH CALVIN — WE THE SPECIES Hosted by Calvin Schwartz Meet PETE SACCO…. “I’ve seen a lot, met endless purveyors,descriptors, classics, and originals. Now Pete Sacco. He’s all four and beyond.Our wrists are adorned with bracelets of significance. We attendedRutgers-Newark. He was football, and I was basketball. He is a CEO,entrepreneur, technologist, and mystic. He coached football. A family man.Founded several successful tech ventures. We Zoomed the day before to getacquainted. Powerful stuff. Impacted my sleep. I was resonating. Thinking abouthis eloquence, consciousness, brilliance, and balanced mind, body, and spirit.I’m going to throw around some words and ideas. Bio-electric field of cells.Not quite discovered yet. Cancer? Pete is AI in many ways. So, my resonating? After two days of Pete. AI. Consciousness.Sympathetic. Parasympathetic. We, the species, are getting closer to seeing themind of. We are given this ability to learn and brought closer to understandingfrom the beginning. How consciousness and AI impact humanity. AI is forcing usto evolve. I…

People in this episode

Host: Calvin Schwartz

Guest: Pete Sacco

Topics covered

• AI
• consciousness
• technology
• entrepreneurship
• mysticism
• personal development

Keywords

• AI
• consciousness
• Pete Sacco
• The Bridge
• entrepreneur
• mystic
• technology
• Rutgers-Newark

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rutgers-Newark

Books & works: The Bridge

Places: NJ

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