By the Light of A Collapsing Star

Hello, I want to talk about this article and everything that this article entails. I'm not going to summarize it. It's required reading for this blog entry. I genuinely and truly believe that humanity is advancing toward the light. We are progressing, as a whole, toward being better. I am not looking for perfection or utopia … Continue reading By the Light of A Collapsing Star →

We’ve Built a Race of Robots

I've always wanted a robot. Or robots, actually. Just a couple of them, wandering around the house at all times. They don't even need to do chores. They can just...be there. Being robots. And I'm not talking about robots that are remote controlled. It has to have some kind of AI. For me, the idea … Continue reading We’ve Built a Race of Robots →

I Want to Go to There

This is Mars: Ever since I was little, I've wanted to go into space. Most of the science fiction I grew up with was all about how awesome it is to explore space. I read space books and I watched the Star Trek and I fed my imagination on final frontiers and strange new worlds. … Continue reading I Want to Go to There →

The Illusion of No Free Will

The debate over our free will has been around for far longer than I care to research. As creatures who posses a fair abundance of intelligence, we would like to think that we are completely in control of what we do. Unlike the savage ape or hedgehog, we have the cognitive capacity to decide, to make choices, … Continue reading The Illusion of No Free Will →

The Robot Menace

We all have different notions about what the future will be like, about what our world will be like. For some us, the Future will be signified by an ushering in of newer and better technology; whether it's hover cars, molecule-sized computer, genetically engineered monstrosities or, in my case, robots. For whatever reason, robots mean … Continue reading The Robot Menace →

On Life

One of the big flaws in human thinking has been the tendency to view things from the wrong way round. We see things as they are now and then work backwards from this point. We look at the world around us and see the entire breadth and depth of history as a chain of events … Continue reading On Life →