Timothy Wilken writes: This morning a reader asks: Do you believe in a future without any form of money? … I think we could do better than money. We would […]
Continue readingThe American dream and Quantum
Reposted from The Yellow Times. John Brand, D.Min., J.D. In 1934, my family spent our summer vacation in the picture-postcard Tyrolean village of Alpbach. While today it is a favorite […]
Continue readingSaving Islam from bin Laden
Reposted from THE AGE. Christopher Hitchens In Nigeria a young woman sits holding a baby and awaiting a sentence of death. The baby is the main, if not indeed the […]
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Understanding Dual Mind
The following is a preview from my new book on Understanding Human Intelligence. The book will be available online early in 2003. Timothy Wilken, MD Human intelligence science has revealed that […]
Continue readingPrelude to Collapse
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 […]
Continue readingThe State of the Human Species
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 […]
Continue readingA Myopic Perspective on AI
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 […]
Continue readingThe End of the World (at least as we know it)
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 […]
Continue readingTearing Toward The Spike
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 […]
Continue readingScience, Consciousness and God
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 […]
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