Essays, Analyses and Meditations
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My latest book of poems and meditations: "Synthesis"
"Synthesis"
(pub. 2009)
The Curse of Gravity
The Spiderweb
The Mind
Civilization
What Is the Dao of an Ant
Civilizations of Sound
The Age of Abstraction
The Abolition of Time
The Society of Pets
Creativity in Art and Science
The Infinite
The Separation of Art and Science
The Cognitive Closure
Religion, Science, Drugs
Greed
The Barbarians
Change and its Opposite
Regress
The Irrelevance of Time
Endosymbiosis
The Meaning of Art
Identity
Alcohol and Meat
Creativity is the opposite of routine
Creativity is not structure
The Origin of Superstition
Human societies Are Systems at the Edge of Chaos
The Digital Individual
Toward a Linear World
Meditation
The Age of Loneliness
The Relativity of Truth
Democratizing Culture
Evil
The Meaning of Life
Aphorisms
The Quest for Beauty
After the publication of "Synthesis"
Principles of Covariant Wisdom
The End of Exploration
Alive and Dead
Life is a Soliloquy
Happiness
Getting Drunk
The Demise of Friendship
Finite States and Conscious States
Envy
Opposites Reinforce Each Other
Universal Connectiveness
The Cognitive Closure of Civilizations
Lost and Acquired Skills
Human Insanity
The Perfect Body and Evolution
Utopia and Jobs
The Reverse of Entropy
Spontaneous Movements
Education as Reeducation
Loss of Identity and Morality
Power Shift
Predicting the Future of Side Effects
The Dead and the Living
The Meaning of Inebriating Substances
The Essence of Nature
The Unpredictable Harm of Good Intentions
The Genetic Origins of Creativity
The Medium is the Brain
The Rule of Law and Common Sense
Hypotheses on the Omega Point
The Gift Economy
Like and Dislike
The Asymmetry Between Artists and Scientists
The Science of Uncertainty
We Hate the Planet
The Zombies Among Us
The USA and the Decline of the West
Utopia is Dissent
Two-faced Aesthetics
The Category of Non-reducibles
We Are Just a Simulation
A Knowledge-Base is Not Knowledge
Beyond Knowledge
Sex and Morality
The Meaning of Job Mobility
Language and Wisdom
Gene-culture Coevolution
Decoupling Quality of Life and Wealth
Wikipedia as a Force for Evil
The Intelligence of Limbs
A Wiki for President
The Moral Scientist
A Change in Lifestyle Will Save the Planet
The Regge Hypotheses
Hyper-commerce
Data Visualization
The Age of Advertising Platforms
The Meaning of Life and Variety
The Rise of A/C Civilizations
The New Pagans
The Brain is a Machine to Create Problems
Stages of Evolution
The Decline of Consciousness
Machine Intelligence and Human Stupidity (The Turing Test Revisited)
From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Creativity
Cultural Uniformity and Physical Diversification
Drugs and the Search for Happiness
The Greatest and Worst Inventions of the 20th Century
The Difference Between You and It
Day and Night
Free Will
For Fairness to God