AI: Absolute Ignorance? I think it’s pretty clear that humanity is on the cusp of something really rather special. Just three years ago, if somebody had told us that we would be having real human-like conversations with our computers, I don’t think anyone would have believed that we were quite there yet. We all knew […]
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What is reality? Us humans have been questioning reality in one form or another for several millennia, quite possibly since we obtained the ability to question such a fundamental aspect of our existence. It appears that we have always carried with us an innate sense that things are not quite as they seem; an uneasy
Why we could be alone after all We don’t know how many stars there are in our own galaxy, let alone any of the other estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies that make up the observable universe, but a ballpark figure often quoted is around the 100 billion mark. That’s a lot of stars, I
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Is this it? I can never answer the question ‘Do you believe in God?’ without first asking the inquisitor to define what they mean by ‘God’. People devoted to their established religion will often describe their exposure to their deity as being deeply personal, inferring that even their own relationship with whatever ‘God’ means is
The End of Time You may think that you exist, and for now, within this tiny slither of time, perhaps you do, but there will come a time when you won’t. And when that moment comes, not only will you cease to exist, but time itself will cease, and in a world without time, there
How long does the present last? We all are familiar with the three main facets of time, those being the past, present, and the future, and we know that only one of these exists at any one time. The past has gone, the future hasn’t happened yet, and as the idiom goes, we live in
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