I was going to do this Thursday night but I got sidetracked. Dan Brown at the The London Free Press took up my challenge (which was “both 100% ironic and 100% sincere at the same time”) to “take a few hours or a few months to figure out what really matters” and compose it into [...]
intellect
Principles are intellectual landmarks for orienting our actions and decisions as well as our opinions of others. Principles aren’t to be upheld at all costs; principles are provisional, to be upheld until they don’t work anymore — then broken and reformed… In fact, what we believe are our principles may not be (or probably aren’t) the [...]
For 2009′s Edge Annual Question, John Brockman asked, “What will change everything?” The answers are diverse, but the most common type of response seems to relate to some kind of leap in intelligence — maybe a majority that range from education to artificial intelligence. As I read through it and thought about my own answer, I started to [...]
