While philosophising with my friends last night, I had an idea about a mindful practice (more on that later) and the next day, I was wondering how to name it. I decided to use ChatGPT as a sounding board and something strange happened. I’ve been using ChatGPT for a while…

A case for love as a driving evolutionary force — Ah, love. Most of us, when asked, say that love is all that matters. It’s spelled out in various ways in our culture and media: “All you need is love”, “The greatest force in the universe is love”, “Love conquers all”…In fact, I was just watching Michael Pollan’s documentary series…

A few weeks ago, Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed that LaMDA, an AI developed by Google, was conscious. He offered edited chats between himself and LaMDA as proof of his claim. But when Nitasha Tiku from the Washington Post tried to converse with LaMDA, she received only “the kind of…

Recent events have shined a spotlight on the horrors of war in a part of the world that hasn’t seen such events in quite a while, and I can’t help but think of the role of philosophy in these matters. …

Uncovering the secret cabal of Unity whose members include some of the most powerful people on the planet. There’s something strange going on, I tell you. In President Biden’s inauguration speech, there was all this talk of “bringing people together”, and “uniting everyone”. Then I heard the poet Amanda Gorman…

And artificial intelligence is not likely to surpass human intelligence any time soon. There are two things that I am passionate about: Computers — I’ve been fiddling with them since before I had my first proper drink, and have built, fixed and tampered with more that I can count throughout…

For someone who just casually browses the subject of anatomy, it would seem that we have the human body all figured out. Not really… The lungs are there to provide oxygen, the heart is there to pump blood, and the nails are there to scratch people when they’re being annoying…

The third and final part in our quest to trace the history of the concept of consciousness. This is part III and the last post in ‘ a brief history of the concept of consciousness’ series, which tries to look at how the very idea of ‘consciousness’ has grown and…

Once, I was walking down a busy road in London, when a group of boys passed me by. They must’ve been about 15 or 16 years old, and as they were walking past, the one that was closest to me throws a punch that lands straight in my stomach. It…