Michael Garfield

Michael Garfield is an evolutionary biologist turned economically-illegible author, artist, and musician who has spent the last twenty years studying and developing better frameworks for understanding the intersection of technology, ecology, and consciousness. Along the way, he has worked as a vertebrate paleontologist, scientific illustrator, touring performance philosopher, innovation researcher, nondual philosophy zine editor, art director, and complexity science communicator, with stints at The Santa Fe Institute, Mozilla, and The Long Now Foundation. Dig into his writing and podcasts at Humans On The Loop and learn more about his latest group project—a new federation for the development of commons-based collective intelligence infrastructure—at Atlas Research.

https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/

A conversation on A.I., evolution, consciousness, and the future of the human

with J. F. Martel, Michael Garfield and Joel Gunz

A Two-Night Event! Join MacGuffin Media’s Joel Gunz for a free, synchronized viewing party of Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, (participants procure their own viewing license) on June 23, followed by podcasters J.F. Martel (Weird Studies) and Michael Garfield (Humans on the Loop) in conversation, using Spielberg’s film as the entry point, on June 25. Martel and Garfield will take questions from the audience.

This event concluded on June 25, 2026.

Views from the Horizon of Evolution, Technology, and Consciousness.

with Michael Garfield

MG101: How To Live In The Future invites participants to explore where maps break down and “reality” gets twisted by embarking on a psychedelic foray into evolutionary creativity and engaging in Wissenskunst (lit: “knowledge art”) at the edge of chaos.

This course concluded in June 2025 and is now self-paced.