When I was a wee young lad of about 8 or 9 or 10, and probably all three, I lost myself in gutter puddles on the side of the street next to my family’s apartment in Brockton, Massachusetts. How the neighborhood children and I delighted in large trucks dousing us with muddy brown tidal waves […]
We want to be known. This is why being a televised person in a plugged-in culture is so appealing. It’s why school shootings happen. It’s why we leave suicide notes. It’s why social media “likes” are replacing affection and praise. We want to be known by God, not understand ourselves as Oneself behind the dualistic […]
Common is the person who seeks eternal life by denying death. That is what the seeker-as-self is for. One roams the earth for a magical elixir of eternal life. Not finding it, such a one turns to technology, to merge with machines and become a spirit in one. One calls the ability to trade organic […]
Discoveries in physics are never-ending because the universe is nothing. The universe can work any way you see it as, because forms and functions are nonsense. There is no reason for anything to work the way it does except that it does. To see how this is so, look no further than ants and people. […]
Are robots alive? What about the internet? Can computing technology become an organism? Can it have a soul? These are the questions that consume those working on artificial intelligence—diligently working to create life in their image. Usually, these are men, so quite possibly this is the male bid to understand motherhood. But we don’t tend […]
We invent things we believe we are lacking. We call them new. They are not new; nothing is new. (Lookin’ at you, pistol shrimp.) Everything in nature is in us and everything in us is in nature. When we read in Urgency. that, “All things must be expressed but you don’t have to be the […]