“Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?”  William Shakespeare Tagline: Investigating respect not as an attitude but as a state of mind and mechanism of self-extension. An old story tells of a man that when asked why he took the life of another replied:” because I can!”. We can of ...

Singularity and human nature  Singularity in a nutshell   In his ‘The Singularity is near', Mr. Ray Kurzweil portrays a fascinating picture of the future of humanity. Based on his insights regarding the exponential acceleration of information related technologies, Mr. Kurzweil predicts an explosive ...

Information Please! On the advent of the information age Take a look at the short movie "They're made out of meat", based on a short SF story by Terry Bisson. It's a fun thought provoking film and an excellent starting point.  There are those inter galactic super intelligent aliens, meeting over a diner table to ...

The Transbeing   Frank Herbert wrote that: “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” And of course who in his true and integrated mind will not agree to this statement? So let us start or begin our knowledge of the coming singularity by observing the prediction wall that is in ...

Brave Mind Singularity   We are, as specie, vastly underestimating the speed with which we are approaching the moment of singularity. Though it is true that most of us have heard about or are involved, to this or that extent, with the coming technological singularity, it is also true that the vast majority of those involved are ...