Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Living Authentically in Our Dense Human Exoskeleton

Posted on October 30, 2023 by Jim Langcuster

I have spent a lot of time lately reflecting on the way we perceive existence around us and the 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s idea of authenticity, relating this to my own idea of our living in what I … Continue reading →

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Lessons from Artificial Languages

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Jim Langcuster

I am fascinated by language – how it represents adaptation and mutation over centuries, even millennia. I am referring to natural language, of course, the mode of communication that was improvised so long ago that we can’t assign a date … Continue reading →

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Something Old, Something New

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

I never cease to be fascinated by stuff like this. Futurist Kevin Kelley has stressed how facets of our technium, which is the term his has devised to describe our technological encasement, never go entirely extinct. Old Agricultural Age-technologies, for … Continue reading →

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Our Universe as a Dark Forest of Synthetic Predators

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

I love salient quotes and this one featured in a recent Wired article dealing with the nature of intelligent alien life in the universe really expressed what may be at stake for our species as we extend our technological tentacles … Continue reading →

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Are We Really “Condemned to be Free”?

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

The French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre initially contended that man is “condemned to be free.” I, for one, am not so convinced – and neither was even Sartre over the course of his career. As I have argued before, our … Continue reading →

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Revel in All Things Human

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

Last night I finished Henry Kissinger’s new book exploring the implications of artificial intelligence and, frankly, I can’t stop reflecting on what may await us. H.G. Wells and other science fiction writers have expended a lot of ink within the … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Conceptual Over-reach

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

Another preoccupation of mine of late is an idea that I have come to describe as “conceptual over-reach.” As I have argued time and again, we Homo spiens are an improvisational species. We respond to exigency, as all other species do, … Continue reading →

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Confronting an Alien Intelligence.

Posted on November 3, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

I just downloaded and began reading the newly published book, The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, yesterday and I have not been disappointed. The nonagenarian Henry Kissinger originally was disinclined to ruminate over the implications of Artificial Intelligence. … Continue reading →

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Unconscious Improvisation

Posted on October 29, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

Call me weird but for some reason lately I have been devoting a lot of thought to the Christian doctrine of Original Sin, a concept, I recall, that, while arguably implicit in scripture, was actually articulated by Augustine. The older … Continue reading →

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A Crane versus a Sky Hook

Posted on October 2, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

There is something about entering the autumn years of life that really plugs one into the wonders of nature. Consider this: It took nature millions of years to evolve a seed that propagated itself by adhering to animal fur or, … Continue reading →

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