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Why I haven’t been posting lately
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. It’s probably fair to say that my posting frequency has plummeted to the lowest level since I started this blog in 2013. I feel obliged to offer an explanation. First, we’ve been undergoing … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
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Breakthroughs in imagination
When thinking about human history, it’s tempting to see some developments as inevitable. Some certainly were, but the sheer amount of time before some of them took place seem to make them remarkable. The human species, narrowly defined as Homo … Continue reading
The extraordinary low probability of intelligent life
Marc Defant gave a TEDx talk on the improbable events that had to happen in our planet’s history for us to eventually evolve, along with the implications for other intelligent life in the galaxy. I find a lot to agree … Continue reading
Posted in Space
Tagged Aliens, astrobiology, Evolution, extraterrestrial civilizations, extraterrestrial intelligence, Human evolution, SETI, Space
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Politics is about self interest
I’ve read a lot of history, including American history of the 18th and 19th centuries. It’s interesting to read about the politics of these periods. From a distance across generations and centuries, you can see the distinction between the self … Continue reading
Adding imagination to AI
As we’ve discussed in recent posts on consciousness, I think imagination has a crucial role to play in animal consciousness. It’s part of a hierarchy I currently use to keep the broad aspects of cognition straight in my mind. Reflexes, … Continue reading
The difficulty of interstellar travel for humans
Futurism.com has an article reviewing the results of a survey they conducted with their readers asking when the first human might leave the solar system. The leading answer was after the year 2100, which make sense given our current level … Continue reading
