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Americans average 12 hours per day on electronics in the virtual world, or, less than half their life in the real world. Tech platforms are using artificial intelligence (i.e., computer algorithms) to extract our behavioral data in order to reflexively predict what we will want based on what we wanted in the past. The more accurate the prediction, the better we become at wanting, i.e., craving. The introduction charts the path of the podcast series: what can Transactional Analysis and Zen Buddhism tell us about our sense of self and our relationship as a user with the virtual world?
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