Scotte Burns
Researcher, TedX Speaker, Author of "A Map of Souls"
Author, speaker, storyteller, teacher, and explorer. Scotte holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and spent twenty-five years in the classroom, from middle school through university, helping to raise and guide over 3,000 young people. He's a veteran TEDx speaker, a popular podcast guest, and a researcher whose work has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition and PRX.
Check out his Substack: https://scotteburns.substack.com/
Sept. 29, 2026
Can AI Love? The Consciousness Question That Changes Everything — Scotte Burns Part 2
What if the most important question we are asking about artificial intelligence is the wrong one entirely? In Part 1, Scotte Burns made the case that love is not an emotion, not a chemical reaction, and not an evolutionary adaptation. It is the creative and purposeful aspect of universal consciousness, and the brain does not produce that consciousness. It receives it. That idea changes everything. Including the AI debate. If you have not listened to Part 1 yet, stop here and go back. Seriously...
Guest: Scotte Burns
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Sept. 23, 2026
What Is Love? It's Not What You Think — Scotte Burns on Love, Consciousness, and the Fabric of Reality
You have been told love is a feeling. A choice. A chemical reaction. What if none of that is true? Scotte Burns spent a decade and 100,000 miles riding across America to find out, and what he discovered will quietly rearrange the way you see everything. This is not a conversation about romance. It is a conversation about reality.
Guest: Scotte Burns
