Life, the Universe, and Twitter, all share an identical property. They are all phenomena which engage with you while you remain firmly seated at the very centre of their massive, seemingly pre-Copernican, realms. This is the first of a series of blogs that I hope will somehow help you to profit from that placement; both in life and on Twitter! And yes (!) the profit could even extend to a very legitimate ‘GAIN IN TWITTER FOLLOWERS’. (Why do I feel dirty?) Read More...Tags: twitter, life, mindfulness, followers
27/08/14 10:18 Filed in:
#gunlaw It has been reported that, in White Hills, Arizona on Monday 25th August 2014, a nine year old girl accidentally shot her instructor when the UZI she was firing recoiled.
The question is one of motivation and of sympathy.
Read More...Tags: Gun law, America, Ethics
19/10/13 05:19 Filed in:
#technology | #philosophyThe
Independent reports on a
patent application made by Google in 2011 and flagged by
Engadget on 15th October this year, that would allow uses of a wearable ‘head-mounted display’ (HMD) to make hand gestures to initiate applicable actions. The HMD in question is most obviously
GoogleGlass and the patent makes specific reference to to gestures that include a heart, to
like and automatically share life and images with definable social networks. This is cool! But at what future cost…
Read More...Tags: GoogleGlass, aI, artificial intelligence, human efficiency, technology, cyborg, Geordi La Forge, philosophy, Ian Tibbetts, Google Glass, Humanity, Emotion
07/10/13 10:48 Filed in:
#philosophyAltruism may be defined as the ‘selfless concern for others’ in association with ‘behaviour that benefits others at personal cost’. Therefore if I donate a pound to a beggar this appears to be an altruistic act. I have made myself poorer in order to benefit the beggar.
But what does it actually take for an act of apparent kindness to be rightfully considered as an altruistic act, and are such acts even possible? Does altruism really exist?
Read More...Tags: altruism, selfishness
04/10/13 00:25 Filed in:
#life | #lifestyleFrom the
home page:
'Imagine that 'sight' is a limited resource. It is made available to each of us for just one year between our twenty-first and twenty-second birthdays. All of our existence up to the age of twenty-one is spent in (what sighted people imagine as) darkness and we will return to that same darkness forever on reaching the age of twenty-two. On returning to the darkness we will remember nothing of what we have seen. Importantly, all these facts are known to us.'
Read More...Tags: lifestyle, thought, philosophy, philosophy questions, asking philosophical questions