The Internet Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fuzzy Logic World
Adam Douglas wrote one of the humor masterpieces of all time with his book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the title of this article is…
Personal computer algorithms: Revisiting the Modern Gnosticism thesis (part iii)
Computers are getting better all the time, right! Well, nooo. Not really. At least, not for me, and in more ways than one. Before going further, two…
Moribund Algorithm, or “How to learn the magic word that evokes the shape of things to come?” On Modalities of Sorcery
Operations with Algorithms are at the heart of disease prevention technologies. This is a follow-up article of those published in the 20 September, 13 October, and 6…
Irrational and stressful algorithms: Revisiting the Modern Gnosticism thesis through liminal incommensurability (part i)
The idea that the modern world, in particular modern knowledge and science, represents a victory of ancient Gnostic views, branded as heresies in the Christian era, is…
Medieval Dignity, Modern Education
In the conclusion of her review of David Walsh’s book, The Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, Macon Boczek challenges the author’s assertion that…
Metaverse: the upcoming Snow Crash World
When 29 years ago, in 1992, Neal Stephenson described for the first time in his novel titled "Snow Crash" the Metaverse, he could not imagine that his…
(Without) the Reason of State, with the Autonomous Technicality of Disease Prevention
Can we arrive through reason at knowing what is the reason of state? For if unreason should come into conflict with reason, we shall then reason and…
Instrumentalizing Politics by Secreting Delirious Effluences
When we pose the question whether a sudden emergency situation can lead to or bring about permanent changes in politics, the seemingly evident answer would be ‘yes’.…
American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time
American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time. Joshua Mitchell. New York: Encounter Books, 2020. While the United States has enjoyed material prosperity, its…
Seeing into Eternity: Technology and Speculations about the Eternal
Introduction The work of Hans Jonas, one of the most penetrating and prolific thinkers of the 20th century, is often eclipsed by the contributions of his towering…
Why Steve Jobs was a Spoiled Child: Does it Matter?
2 ½ years after his death from cancer, Steve Jobs remains an icon of contemporary business and popular culture. Co-founder of Apple, he amassed a fortune of…
Steve Jobs: The Spoiled Child as Tech Guru
Steve Jobs’ entrance into the technology business was less than auspicious. In an early manifestation of what came to be called his “reality distortion field,” Jobs insisted…
Is Online University Education Possible?
Is there anything better for a teacher than watching one’s students do great things? I have never bought into the rhetoric that some teachers use about “learning…
Abuse of Metrics and Regression of Conscious Mind
1. Applying of metric indicators (in all imagined range of areas of impact that is accessible to measuring) as basic and final for the evaluating of the…
The Tragic Condition of Man
Berdyaev comments that the tragic condition of man results from our dual nature; the physical and divine. Being made in the image of God means participating in…