4+ hour, 7+ min ago  (1014+ words) AI, however smart, fast, knowledgeable and logical it becomes, is and always will be nothing more than a thought machine. The question is, will humans cease idolizing thought in all its forms, especially the illusory self and its "agency?" The…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (886+ words) Since my teens I've had a passion for thinking together with others on the basic questions of life. I recall going to the film "2001, A Space Odyssey" in the 9th grade with my friend Mike, and spending weeks questioning its meaning....

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (781+ words) After a light but all-night rain, the clouds cleared and the sun made a welcome appearance in the early afternoon. People got outside and into the parkland in droves, including me. Meditation was just igniting through undivided, undirected observation when…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (974+ words) What happens when psychological memory is negated, experience is denied, knowledge is held in abeyance, and time ends? The human brain is then a passage for the inviolate and immeasurable. If that's the true meaning of life however, why is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1077+ words) A bright sun, low in the western sky, streams through a gap in the trees above the houses. A mourning dove coos nearby, and is answered by another in the distance. A jay squawks. There isn't a flutter of the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (779+ words) The day is mild, and the park is nearly empty. For the entire hour I sit beside the stream, a single swallowtail butterfly feeds on the nectar of the spiky white balls overhanging the water. The senses become fully attuned…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago  (1001+ words) Are the mass movements of the past for gender equality, civil rights, environmental sustainability and economic justice still the way ahead, given the global polycrisis of our time?" With a certainty and confidence that belies the world as it is,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (967+ words) Dialogue is a word that has been rendered almost meaningless by having so many meanings to so many people. Politicians have appropriated the word and nearly destroyed its usefulness. But there is a deeper meaning to dialogue " a shared exploration…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (927+ words) Humankind stands on the brink of another world war. Yet a progressive global newspaper features an article praising the pollyannaish worldview of Steven Pinker. "Human society has become kinder over the course of recorded history. Over the long arc of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (989+ words) The more Homo sapiens accumulates knowledge and develops high technology, the less intelligent we are becoming as a species. Why are humans an inverse in the universe? Though I'm sometimes accused of it, I've never understood why anyone would try…...