Alice Albrecht - On Creativity, Connection & Convergence | Episode 198

Alice Albrecht is the founder and CEO of re:collect, a company dedicated to “enhancing human intelligence by augmenting memory, perception, and synthesis utilizing AI.” Alice started her career in psychology and academia, obtaining a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Yale University. She joins the show to discuss how to become more creative, why she believes that nothing is true, how to boost evolution and MUCH more!
Important Links:
- re:collect’s Website - www.re-collect.ai
- Alice’s Twitter - alicealbrecht?lan...
- Alice’s LinkedIn - / alice-albrecht-6379868
- How to Improve Your Creative Thinking - every.to/superorganizers/unde...
Show Notes:
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:07 Main podcast
0:02:12 Augmenting Human Creativity
0:04:27 Collection Does Not Always Lead to Recollection
0:09:46 Using re:collect to Connect Information
0:12:52 How to Increase Your Creativity
0:16:18 Different Phases of Creativity
0:19:38 How AI Fits Into the Picture
0:24:25 Harnessing Our Attention
0:27:30 AGI & ASI
0:39:00 Boosting Evolution
0:49:12 re:collect’s First Order Effects
0:52:13 Nothing is True
0:56:14 Convergence, DIvergence & Collective Intelligence
1:01:40 re:collect in Seven Years’ Time
1:12:24 From Academia to Entrepreneurship
1:18:13 Alice as Empress of the World
Books Mentioned:
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World; by David Deutsch
- The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything; by David Deutsch
- The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous; by Joseph Henrich