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Jon talks with author of Serially Surreal, Dr. Kim Solez entrepreneur, pathologist, and professor.

At age 75, life is just starting for entrepreneur Dr. Kim Solez

The Edmonton-based entrepreneur, pathologist and professor just observed his 75th birthday. He\u2019s celebrating by writing a memoir that\u2019s documented his life\u2019s first three-quarters of a century and applying for a grant that can fuel his passion to solve six of the world\u2019s key problems for the decades to come.

\u201cChronologically, I\u2019m 75 years old, but I have this little, happy 18-year-old bursting out inside of me every now and then,\u201d Solez said.

The memoir will be titled \u201cSerially Surreal\u201d \u2013 a term the late great singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen described Solez as during their first meeting in 2005. Solez founded separate events Leonard Cohen Nights and Leonard Cohen International Festivals to honor the artist. The grant for which Solez is applying is through CIFAR, a Canadian-based global research organization. Solez believes the data from artificial intelligence can be used to tackle six critical issues facing society: Male Aggression; Nuclear War; Climate Emergency; Systemic Racism; COVID-19 Pandemic; and Colonialism. Those issues can be solved through what Solez considers a combination of \u201chumanity plus AI.\u201d

\u201cOne can imagine a future where it is possible to measure changes in human behavior, positive changes in the world brought about by something you wrote, or a video you produced, and that becomes the criterion on which academic advancement is based,\u201d Solez said. \u201cThat will be a world much better than today. We don\u2019t have those metrics yet. However, it is a very nice position to be in, to be the person suggesting future standards!\u201d

Solez said he\u2019s always viewed the world differently, even from the day he was born \u2013 June 20, 1946. That day, he said his father, a cardiologist, said Solez was a calm, smiling baby surrounded by many others who were crying and whining.

Solez grew up in a house of science and art. Both his parents played the piano, and Solez\u2019s mother was classically trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The gravestone where his parents rest is labeled \u201cEnjoy the Music,\u201d which Solez has done throughout his life.

Solez has combined his love for science and art through his work as an entrepreneur at numerous companies, including his

urrent one \u2013 Just Machines, which explores the effects of rapidly improving technology and AI in the field of medicine \u2013 plus as Professor of Pathology at University of Alberta, where he is continually and constantly surrounded by students and graduate assistants that make him feel young. The young people are also organized to continue Solez\u2019s work if anything were to happen to him. As Greg Washington says \u201cA person dies twice: once in physical form and again the last time their name is spoken. I want to make sure that my friends live forever,\u201d Solez\u2019s students will make sure that he is long remembered. However, there is no sign of his slowing down anytime soon!

Solez also noted his personality is naturally risk-taking and virtually fearless. He recently took the NEO PI-R personality test, and the results said was \u201coff the charts for openness to experience\u201d and that he likes \u201cto be in the action.\u201d

He also can communicate with anyone, from brilliant academia-focused, to the homeless young adults he sometimes meets at the weekly poetry nights he helps organize.

For Solez, it\u2019s all about living a life of openness and pursuit of the new.

\u201cLeading a life without precedent is much easier than leading a life with one because you\u2019re always trying something new,\u201d he said.\u201d

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