
Mark Singleton
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Jul 13, 2026
56. Mark Singleton | Yoga Machine: Technology, Transhumanism, and Transcendence
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Seth PowellHOST
In what ways does thinking of yoga through the lens of the Greek, techne, how does this open up our understanding of yoga traditions from India? What is sort of gained through this comparison and what maybe perhaps might be lost through a comparison like that?

Mark SingletonGUEST
Sanskrit, well, the Greek and the Sanskrit have, there is a word that derives from the same root that gives the Greek tekne.

Mark SingletonGUEST
So from the Proto-Indo-European, it's a root, root taksh, and you have words in Sanskrit that sort of, They echo that, like takshan, the carpenter.
26 MINS LATER

Seth PowellHOST
Do you see AI as a new chapter in the story that you're telling in Yoga Machine, or does it represent something qualitatively different?