• Prompt to Google Bard: It is said that Creativity is Imagination Having Fun. Do you have fun? • Response from Google Bard: I do! I enjoy learning new things and exploring new ideas. I also enjoy helping people and making their lives easier. I think it’s important to have fun in life, and I […]
“Lawfare” is a term of art that refers to the selective application of the law to persecute a disfavored demographic group while protecting a favored group. The relevant analogy is a chess game, where one selectively uses the legal moves to protect one’s own pieces while threatening or eliminating the pieces of one’s opponent. Lawfare […]
A number of people who are paying daily attention to fast-paced domestic politics have observed that the rules of the game have changed. As I see it, we don’t need a different set of rules. Rather we need a durable and sustainable set of scientific concepts more powerful than any that can be expressed in […]
One of the features of the Information Age and Social Networks is the rising importance of Trust Networks. What is a Trust Network? It’s a network of individuals, organizations, and agents that one confidently feels they can unconditionally trust to be honest, reliable, ethical, constructive, pro-social, and responsive. Adding or removing individuals, organizations, or agents […]
In Psychology, there is a diagnosis known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, which is the new name for Multiple Personality Disorder. The lay public often conflates Dissociative Identity Disorder with aspects of Schizophrenia and/or Schizoid Personality Disorder. In Schizophrenia, one may be affected by disorganized thinking associated with unexamined and/or erroneous beliefs (e.g. imaginative anxiety-driven beliefs […]
A while back, I was given a hand-me-down iPad Mini as a thank-you gift for doing some pro-bono technical work for a cash-strapped professional colleague. This iPad Mini has WiFi, GPS, and cellular capability. I’ve been a Bell Atlantic / Verizon customer for 27 years. However, I don’t own a cell phone, so I don’t […]
There has been a lot of attention on BitCoin of late, and a number of my correspondents have been digging into the topic. I was looking for some good analogies through which to understand the idea and the dynamics of BitCoin and similar mathematically defined crypto-currencies. This is my first shot at constructing such an […]
In Howard Gardner’s catalog of Multiple Intelligences, the Ninth Intelligence is the rarest of them all. Monument to Plato, Academy at Athens Gardner calls it Existential Intelligence. Other candidate names are Spiritual Intelligence, Theological Intelligence, Religious Intelligence, Priestly Intelligence, Prophetic Intelligence, Mystical Intelligence, Kabbalistic Intelligence, Transcendent Intelligence, Metaphysical Intelligence, Ethical Intelligence, MetaCognition, Sustainability Intelligence, Cybernetic Intelligence, Pattern […]
Politicians, lawyers, and well-heeled lobbyists are uncommonly gifted at gaming the system. To that list, you can add sheriffs, prosecutors, judges, and other local and state law enforcement officials. The concept of gaming the system was put on a rigorous mathematical foundation in the 20th Century, with the development of Chaos Theory, Game Theory, and […]
Symphony of Science Our Place In the Cosmos Two years ago, Wired Magazine reported that Neil deGrasse Tyson would host a sequel to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos which aired on PBS three decades ago. The producers of the new sequel say the new series will tell “the story of how human beings began to comprehend the laws of nature and find […]
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