I don’t think it matters much that there is reason to believe Human Brains Unlikely to Evolve Into a ‘Supermind’ as Price to Pay Would Be Too High. The brains of individuals might not evolve much while still allowing a substantial amount of advancement in the minds which form and also draw upon a human … [Read more…]
According to this article: Will You Live Forever—or until Your Next Software Release—by Uploading Your Brain into a Computer?, someone’s stolen Milt Jackson’s idea, the one that gave him a lot of assets though all the cash went to the one they call the Opportunist, the fellow who fathered those children using Milt’s genes. I … [Read more…]
In Do We Survive the Major Transformations of Our Lives?, I wrote: In Rewriting the Soul, the philosopher Ian Hacking had speculated that the multiple personality phenomenon is a largely learned strategy of segregating painful memories. Is our sense of a particular individuality tied that strictly to specific memories? But our memories would not seem … [Read more…]
Here’s a good and short article by a clearheaded thinker, Ivan Eland: Pro-Business vs. Pro-Market: What’s the Difference?. I think a similar point can be made about the political marketplaces. This is to say that there are those politicians who would govern, that is organize certain types of human activities conducive to a fuller human … [Read more…]
Some readers might access this blog in ways that don’t display the main page and might not be aware that I have a variety of books, nonfiction and fiction, available for free download. Nonfiction Books and Articles See Unpublished Nonfiction Works or go directly to Unpublished Nonfiction Books for Download or Unpublished Short Nonfiction Works … [Read more…]
Mind and body are not separate nor is body for real and mind a mere epiphenomenon. The body is concrete, objective stuff but mind is a set of relationships with both concrete and abstract being. During recent weeks, I picked up links to various articles which reaffirm our embodied natures. From our bodies of physical … [Read more…]