The Multiverse According to Ben

This is another uber-meaty blog post, which reports a train of thought I had while eating dinner with my wife last night, which appears to m...

Some of the followup (private) emails I've gotten in regard to my just-prior blog post on Damien Broderick's book on psi, have reall...

My goal in this blog is to convince you to read Damien Broderick 's book Outside the Gates of Science: Why It's Time for the Paranor...

A new model of the universe? Actually, yeah. It starts out with the familiar concept of the "multiverse," which is mainly associat...

In September 2007 I went on a two week business/science trip to China (Wuhan and Beijing) and Japan (Tokyo). In between some very interesti...

My immediately previous blog post, on the apparently in-large-part nincompoopic nature of the emerging global brain http://www.goertzel.org/...

On a recent business trip to New York, I found myself sitting for a couple hours in a Starbucks in the midst of the campus of New York Unive...

I was amused and delighted to read the following rather transhumanistic article in the New York Times recently. http://www.nytimes.c...

In the spirit of my prior dream-description Colors , I have written down another dream ... one I had last night ... it's in the PDF file...

From time to time someone suggests to me that Google "must be" developing a powerful Artificial General Intelligence in-house. I ...

Ode to the Perplexingness of the Multiverse A clever chap, just twenty-nine Found out how to go backwards in time He went forty years back K...

Someone emailed me recently about Searle's Chinese Room argument, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Chinese_room a workhorse theme in the ph...

This post is motivated by an ongoing argument with Phil Goetz, a local friend who believes that all this talk about "accelerating chang...