Category: CommUnity of Minds

The following is an excerpt from the book Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change William Catton The Industrial Revolution made us precariously dependent on nature’s dwindling legacy of non-renewable […]

This essay written in November of 2000.  B. Deric Morris Now as we flush the dregs of the twentieth century where it, at last, belongs, to stalk the feral truffles of […]

Reposted from KurzweilAI.net. Ray Kurzweil Geoffrey James’ myopic perspective on artificial intelligence (“Out of Their Minds,” August 2002) harkens back to the 1980s, when many observers equated AI with the […]

Yesterday, we presented  reviews of Reg Morrison’s The Spirit in the Gene, and featured an article by Damien Broderick on The Spike. In this morning’s reposting from MetaFuture, Richard Eckersley addresses the […]

We have talked about the Singularity before. I came across this article yesterday while googling Reg Morrison. Interesting coincidence! Damien Broderick I wish I could show you the real future, in […]

Peter Russell Science has explored deep space, deep time and deep structure and found neither place nor need for God. Now that it has begun to consider consciousness, it has […]

P.R. Sarkar The apparent diversity in the human world today is the product of natural conditions. Geographically this planet of ours is divided into a few distinct zones: the snow-covered […]

Timothy Wilken I have just finished an amazing book by Australian Reg Morrison. Its subject matter is a comprehensive review of the enormous damage being done to all non-human life, […]

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair speech to the world summit in Johannesburg is reposted from The Guardian of London. Tony Blair Mr President and colleagues. We know the problems. A […]

Timothy Wilken Chris Lucas writes: Timothy, I came across a book recently by Larry Barnhart called A Farm Boy’s Testament to the United Nations. He writes extensively on the difference between […]