Zombie Bioethics
A bodyoid’s value for science and medicine lies precisely in what it would be, which is not a zombie, not a dead person, not a mannequin that mimics the human form. It would be a profoundly disabled human being.
The Perception of Reality
We the people must demand that the illumination of The Truth be ignited, and Postmodernism be banished, if not completely, then at least from science. Science must be objective and follow The Truth and not Subjective Opinions of Truth.
Hysteria Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
The big mistake of so-called rational thinking is consistently underestimating the power of people’s need to believe in something transcendent of what they, at one point or another in their life, come to realize is their own cosmic insignificance.
Babel Moments
We are more disconnected than ever before and we have lost our ability to communicate with each other. And yet our destruction is well masked in the pretence of progress and unity.
The Spirit of Pioneering
Americans refuse to be demoralized. We want to have good lives, and we believe that this is the country to do it in. That’s the spirit of pioneering. It is not lost. It has just ebbed and flowed.
AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty
I didn’t want to feed my soul into a machine. That was my instinct when AI tools started appearing everywhere – not concern about jobs, but something deeper. These tools promise to make us smarter while making us more dependent.
Silence and Sovereignty
Could there be a better way of subverting that traditional link between music and healing than by replacing it with a simulacrum of the same and to habituate people to elite-supplied assaults on their physical integrity in the name of health?
The Problem Is Solved by Art, Not Science
So much of what is considered science today is really just art. It’s a subjective interpretation of the meaning of data. Data does not speak for itself. It does not tell you cause and effect. It provides no predictive map.
The Spirit of Respect
It occurs to me to be grateful about all that we have regained in these 50 years. Despite everything, the place of freedom and family and community does seem to have made a comeback.
The Art and Science of Storytelling
Storytelling is ancient. It goes back to prehistory and is much more developed in the spoken word. Written stories only became widespread with the use of movable type. Some of the most important works we consider as “literature” are older than books.
From Fiat Everything to Real Everything
The infrastructure is visible to those willing to see it. The systematic replacement of natural systems with artificial ones has reached into every domain—money, health, education, information. What began as isolated changes has revealed itself as a coordinated operation.
Consequentialism Discredited
There is no reconciliation possible between the two competing modes of moral thinking that arose out of modernity; law, duty, intention, and consequences all really do matter, and the deontologist and consequentialist are always going to be talking past each other.