{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Machine in the Mirror","title":"Introduction to Series One: The Self and The Machine","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6f2f084b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":525,"description":"What does it mean to be human?\nIn 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 episode of the podcast — not as something to answer, but to live with.\nThis short reflection invites listeners into a space of curiosity, paradox, and poetic inquiry. With the rise of intelligent machines as our current threshold, we begin by looking inward — not just at the technologies we build, but at the selves we bring to them.\nThis is the beginning of Series 1: The Self and the Machine.A question.\nA spark.\nA spiral.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2HjSCyul_GWKUqu-9-Y0oL7myNh2zDRJBDvSwbJFwwc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZTQy/MDU0YTUyMjE5YmQz/NjY2YTgxNTYzOGUw/YjliYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}