The Multiverse According to Ben

(This may seem a hackneyed topic, but there are some moderately original points near the end here, if you bear with me ...) As a card-carryi...

Is the human brain, at the levels directly relevant for analysis of cognition, best modeled as a classical or quantum system? (For instance,...

My review of the Kurzweil-biopic/futurist-think-piece documentary Transcendent Man -- which features me mouthing off for 4-5 minutes in a ...

A follow-up to my prior posts on cetacean intelligence... I thought a bit about innovative ways we might be able to communicate better with ...

This is just a brief follow-up to my last post, and a prelude to the one that will follow, which is already brewing in my brain.... In case ...

I've been reading many of the writings of John Lilly lately, and also poring through the literature on cetacean intelligence ... and I h...

I've been thinking of making the protagonist of my next novel a female "mad scientist", but I wasn't sure how to write the...

A journalist emailed me today and asked me some questions about the possibility of the Internet becoming conscious. The questions and my a...

The bored or overly curious may check out my latest neurological dysfunction (aka work of fiction) "The Last Aphrodisiac", at http...

A friend pointed me to this paper http://www.emergentmind.org/gariaev06.htm which I found provoking and interesting, though nowhere near ful...

I was thinking a little more about the current economic situation and why it seems so confusing to people, including experts. Part of the pr...

In my 1993 book "The Structure of Intelligence" (SOI), I presented a formal definition of intelligence as "the ability to ach...

One more sociopolitical/futurist observation ... If you're not aware of David Brin's Transparent Society concept, you should read t...

All in all, the conclusion I'm coming to lately ... as reflected in my last two blog posts, as well as in some other thinking ... is tha...

This is another post on political, economic and futurist themes ... starting out with a reflection on a bogus patent, and winding up with a ...

In a recent email dialogue with my dad, I found myself spouting off again about the possible causes of the recent financial crisis ... and ...