Storytelling is an invocation of the magical daemon. While many will not acknowledge this phantasmagoric being, still they will recognize it when they see it. It is the sublime moment when being told a story that the brain suddenly lights up; our inner movie screen freezes and we are momentarily suspended in time. When the […]
Continue ReadingI have $700 in cash but am $100 short. I need to make it $800 so that I can pay my drug dealer. He has already sent round his boys to rough me up, and I need to stump up the cash tomorrow. There is a game at the casino that has 50-50 odds. I […]
Continue ReadingThe Unfathomable Human Attention To assess the potential threat of human replication by AI, we should examine the differences between the respective brains. We understand a computer ‘brain’ better than we do our own, for we designed it. A computer basically processes digital information (numbers), and its role as a processor is quite straight forward […]
Continue ReadingIntroduction Why do the months of the year have different number of days? Why are there 28 days in February but January and March each have 31 days? It has been like this since 45 BC when the Julian calendar replaced the original Roman calendar. If there are 365 days in a year, is it […]
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