Category: Philosphy
From what is humanity defined? Are we about to be deprecated?
Is humanity defined by what it has accomplished? Or rather, from what is out of it’s grasp? Regardless of how humanity began, whether through divine intervention or through the chance combinatorics of elementary particles in the...
Should we trust robots? Do you trust your cat?
Every night, Fred, my pet cat of going on four years now, curls up at the foot of my bed, purrs, and sleeps soundly. In the morning, he wakes me for his breakfast with irresistible insistence....
One day over virtual beers… (short fiction)
“What did you do last weekend, @joe2?” asked @Mark “uh, I just dropped into maintenance mode and re-calibrated some visual algorithms” he lied. No way could he talk about how he actually spent his 4 hours...
Life, one anecdote involving a small group of bored high school kids
One spring weekend, a small group of three or four teenage boys hatched some plan to drive to a neighboring town, meet up with an acquaintance which purportedly had free tickets to a movie. As so...
About “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes” by Robert Louis Stevenson
I chose this book because it is about Robert Louis Stevenson’s pilgrimage across southern France. I half expected a satire on the order of Don Quixote by Cervantes. Instead, this short book was part travelog and...
Story Idea: Life Understanding vs Dementia
In this scenario, the more an aging man comes to grip with humanity, civilization, and himself, basically the more he focuses internally, the more people around him consider him demented. As his distinction between valuable and...