When you think about how many couples get married and divorced, and how many in relationships that involve cheating, lying, … More
Author: Dave
A Deep Dive into AI [pt.9] – How Anthropomorphism is discrediting and derailing balanced, rational discussions about Artificial Intelligence, and trivialising its real dangers and its existential threat (and how anthropomorphic fear of machines is actually increasing those dangers)
When you think of robots and artificial intelligence do you think of these? or even: ? But what do these … More
The Nike Slogan that didn’t make it.
One of my students in a nurse. And from where she’s from euthanasia or terminally ill (and sometimes not) patients … More
You know what you want and what you need. Are you just scared?
It’s possible that fear plays a part in ALL our decisions we make. Even a little bit. Fear of future … More
Visualise both outcomes of your next major decision to make. Vividly.
If you’re weighing up a decision to make, try thinking deeply about what your life would like on both sides on the … More
Can you name one event that people get congratulated for that was done ENTIRELY within their control and ENTIRELY with their own free will? (The only thing that you can truly congratulate someone for is…umm…?)
Any thing ‘fortunate’ that happens happen with either the help of other people, conditions or things you don’t control. Getting … More
Though a life of impulse –let’s call it an unconscious one– can be simple (at least thought-wise) it is not one that leads to understanding why a simple life is a good life.
Experience is itself a species of knowledge that involves understanding – Immanuel Kant Though doing everything without conscious thought may … More
A Deep Dive into: Perception [pt.1] – HYPOTHETICAL: If you were born without the sense of touch, sight, hearing, taste or smell, would you understand about the world (if anything)? [Is our understanding of the world –and science– innate in any way]?
Imagine from the start of your life, that you’ve never seen, touched, heard, smelt or tasted anything… What would you … More
Is it possible that your consciousness is what actually makes your life WORSE? Maybe we ask too many questions and analyse too much? Anyway that’s why the name of the site is changing for today.
Do other mammals, reptiles, blades of couch grass exhibit consciousness? And do they even have any? Or are all their … More
It is possible that compromise is actually the WORST thing for both people?
Do other animals in Animalia compromise? For their own, or for their mutual goals (which you could argue are ultimately … More