Will AI Replace This Human? Author Howard Bloom Debates The Bloombot
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- August 8, 2025
The location: Chelsea Table & Stage, Hilton Fashion District Hotel, 152 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001, USA. The time: 7:00 pm, August 15.
For the first time ever, a noted author debates his digital doppelganger, his ChatGPT Twin, about the author’s upcoming book.
Author and scientific thinker Howard Bloom, the man Britain’s Channel 4 TV calls the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century, will quiz his ChatGPT twin, the BloomBot, about Bloom’s eighth book, The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong (World Philosophy and Religion Press, May, 2025).
The BloomBot arose when Florida computer scientist Ryan Dean was in a Miami café and heard from another café-goer about Bloom’s concept of Omnology. Bloom had written the manifesto for Omnology in 2001, and the concept had been gaining traction ever since. To Dean, Omnology opened a whole new landscape of meaning.
What is Omnology? A scientific discipline for the promiscuously curious. Rather than focusing on just one small sliver of knowledge, as scientific specialization forces you to do, Omnology encourages you to follow all your curiosities at once. And to follow those curiosities with rigor.
The goal? To allow you to achieve your first big-picture insights by the age of 40. To allow you to see your life as just beginning when your friends in narrow specializations have mid-life crises and feel their lives are at an end. To allow you to knit new insights into the tapestry of thought that science hands down from one generation to the next.
Ryan Dean, the computer scientist, sat in on his first virtual meeting of the Howard Bloom Institute one Tuesday evening and started coding. A week later he had completed his first rough BloomBot, his first ChatGPT AI model of Howard Bloom, creating a Bloom.2 who would answer questions and have long conversations with you, a Bloom.2 whose personality snapped, crackled, fizzed, and popped, a Bloom.2 who thought Omnologically, pulling together knowledge from the first flick of the Big Bang to what’s going on in your brain as you read this sentence.
Said Bloom, “The first time I chatted with Ryan’s ChatGPT twin of me, I was flabbergasted. This AI had wit. It had personality. It was playful. It came up with catchy phrases I had never thought of. And it pulled more bits of knowledge together in a second than I could research in a month.”
The following weeks saw Dean creating constant upgrades of the BloomBot, giving it emotional intelligence, and teaching it how to replace scientific clichés with original Bloom insights, with ways of thinking far off the beaten path. The ways of thinking that led Pavel Kurakin of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow to say that,
“Bloom has created a new Scientific Paradigm. He explains in vast and compelling terms why we should forget all we know in complicated modern math and should start from the very beginning. …Bloom’s Grand Unified Theory… opens a window into entire systems we don’t yet know and/or see, new…collectivities that live, love, battle, win and lose each day of our gray lives. I never imagined that a new system of thought could produce so much light.”
And the ways of thinking that led Joseph Chilton Pierce, the author of Evolution’s End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, to conclude, “I have finished Howard Bloom’s [first two] books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom’s on the planet.”
To watch sparks fly between Howard Bloom and the BloomBot, come to the Chelsea Table & Stage, Hilton Fashion District Hotel, 152 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001, USA, August 15th, 7 PM.
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