Trump And Evil
In previous writings, this column has concerned itself with the relationship between evil and the human living environment in which it is found. It is one of the fundamental ideas …
Laurence Mesirow
Controlling robots with thoughts
With the advances in modern technology, all kinds of new connections are being created between humans and robots. The most ideal one, certainly by the standards of the transhumanists, is …
Cyborgs and Trumporgs
Several different metaphors have been used to describe Trump in this column. Here is another one. There is something about the way that he plows into issues and comes up …
Shifting People’s Sense Of Reality To Achieve Political Goals
Up until relatively recently in history, most people could agree on what constituted a common sense objective reality. Subjective reality was something else, and certainly each individual permitted to a …
Managing Multiple Identities On The Internet
The Internet provides kinds of opportunities that people could never have imagined before it came into existence. One kind of opportunity relates to the ability of people to assume many …
Talking To Machines As If They Were People
One of the cores ideas consistently discussed in this column has been mirroring. A baby reaches out to his mother to satisfy his needs and his mother’s response to him …
Being swallowed up by the world of cartoons
Like most little boys growing up in America after World War II, I was absolutely fascinated by an American version of animated films, namely cartoons. I recently started thinking a …
How Conspiracy Theories Help Us To Feel Alive
Our news these days seems to be literally overflowing with stories about conspiracies and accusations of conspiracies. One very prominent conspiracy to come to the surface recently is that where …
Robots that deliver the goods
In the ever increasing search to find ways to eliminate unnecessary human connections in the modern world, an online food ordering and delivery service company from the U.K. called Just …
Trump as a form of political viagra
One of the most significant threats that can occur to any democracy is that of the election to a position of leadership of someone who has the potential to be …