Tips for Beating SPRING FORWARD “Jet Lag!”
The dreaded Spring Forward time change is upon us. Around Halloween, they give us an extra hour of sleep. In the Spring, they snatch it back from us…. Whoever “they” Continue Reading
If we can’t define death, how can we define life/consciousness?
https://curiosity.com/topics/what-is-death-turns-out-no-one-really-knows-curiosity/ Curiosity.Com has a wonderful article on how hard it is to define death. Click on the link above. Loss of heartbeat? Nope. People come back from that. Stopped breathing? Continue Reading
Human Consciousness and AI
My wife Wendy and I are currently watching a series called “HUMANS“ (with an inverted A) from AMC on Amazon Prime. Artificial intelligence and the moral paradoxes which come with Continue Reading
Can You Be a Pacifist and Pro-Government at the Same Time?
Disclaimer: I am not a pacifist. I am a wannabe pacifist. Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount have a vice-grip ethical pull on me. But, intellectually Continue Reading
Does the Brain Generate Consciousness, or Host it?
Human consciousness is a mystery. It seems to be something different from intelligence. Making machines more and more intelligent (AI) does not seem to generate consciousness. Cats and dogs seem Continue Reading
Going After Fame and Success?
Mass Success Fame Celebrity Status All Start Sports Star Making the Big Time Being “Somebody” Our culture trains our young to shoot for these things. Could that be a big Continue Reading
2018 State of the Union, #SOTU
Just finished watching the 2018 #SOTU. Not a Trump fan. Not a Trump hater. Old enough to know that things aren’t that simple. Some random thoughts: The country is thriving, Continue Reading
Aliens are NOT Contacting Us–Why?…. A Lesson in Logic
So if the universe is full of billions and billions of civilizations (as Carl Sagan said), where are they? Cosmology is pretty speculative stuff… Turns out using science and math Continue Reading
What is YOUR Political Footprint?
I just took the rather extensive POLITISCALES survey online, in order to get a better feel for what I really think and believe. Found this to be a lot more Continue Reading
The Decline of the Mid-Size Suburban Postwar Church
From the Kansas City Star Full article: HERE Medium-sized postwar churches, a formidable institution at one time, are in demographic free-fall. Other kinds of churches are thriving. LARGE: Hope Lutheran Continue Reading