There is no such thing as artificial intelligence. The computing power we have at present may have the look of intelligence – they ‘do’ things- the intelligence they exhibit is nothing like human and animal intelligence. Even learning by experience is still at a basic level or mobilisation and positioning and nowhere near writing even…
Psalm of Life
What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust…
Managing Ideas
Many years ago I took a class each week in farming grasslands and cereals to learn to be more practical. In one of the first classes we were given ten things to look at when buying a new field, among which were irrigation, chemical make up of soils, access, drainage, plough panning etc. I listed…
How We All Fight War
Watching the documentary on WW2 and how each combatant martialled its population to dedicate itself to winning the conflict was very instructive as to how, when threatened, everyone becomes a warrior. When the home is threatened everyone, as they say ‘does their bit’ and the government gives incentives to help them decide to get involved….
Fire Fire
The scenes of the fires raging in Los Angeles are horrific. That only ten people have died is testament to the care taken in planning responses to such events. No one has talked about the numbers of animals burned to death, but then few care about them. The loss of libraries in a country fighting…
Strange World
I am used to debating and having an audience discuss an issue with me but podcasting is very strange. We have been going once a week for five weeks and posting on youtube and for one of the discussions we had 390 views. Out of nowhere, I think my other host sent to five of…
It is a shame
that people can look ordinary but are not. Ruled by the brain, which can me convinced of anything, we harbour violent thoughts, hatreds and savagery behind smiles. Only sometimes does the bigotry show itself in the expressions we try hard to hide. I am reminded of the murderers of Stephen Lawrence who dressed so well…
I am disturbed
by all the words of wisdom that keep being trolled out on social media. I mean I have one “it is sunny outside while in the rest of the UK people are facing flood damage and snow falls. Life is very different for everyone.” I have said precisely nothing. I have changed exactly nothing. I…
Wondrous
Nature is wondrous but also brutal. This brutality has fed into our psyche so deeply we think we need to kill but actually all we need to do is defend. We killed not just to save our own lives but to take life and we take it in such quantities it is true to say…
Women’s Rights in Afghanistan
It is probably true to say they don’t have any since the defeat of the Russian by the Mujahideen. I read on various UN sites and medical oversight pages that they cannot even appear on TV series. They cannot run café, or appear in public without a close family member (male) whom they are forbidden…