Machine in the Mirror
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.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 8
- Years Active
- 2025
The Self and the Machine: Stone, Steel and Sundials. The Alchemy of Empire
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
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
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 int…
The Self and the Machine: Weapons of Separation
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. Beg…
The Self and the Machine: Taming by the Tool
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 t…
The Self and The Machine: Fire and Flint
Introduction to Series One: The Self and The Machine
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 epi…
Machine in the Mirror 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 i…