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Road to Tukuyu: A Poem By Terry Rapoch
Now in his 70’s, Terry Rapoch’s astonishingly vivid memories of his experiences fifty years earlier as a CUSC volunteer teacher in Africa, ring out with authenticity. Is this something AI co [...]
Happy Girl: The Latimer Dialogues 5
After seven years in prison Robert Latimer is eligible for day parole, and he faces a politically-appointed Parole Board that will determine if he will be allowed to leave prison and stay, f [...]
Thou Shalt Not Steal, or Shouldst Thou?
Is the use of GAI equivalent to plagiarism? If so, what can/should we do about it? [...]
Machine Evolution
In this paper, we will examine several stages of various processes of evolution: Natural Selection, Artificial Selection, and Technological Selection. [...]
The danger from AI is real, but we can make it safe
The last year has been a transformative year for AI. ChatGPT was released November 30th, 2022 and sparked a media firestorm. By February of this year, a little over 2 months after launch, Ch [...]
AI’s Moment is Here. Let’s Get it Right.
The last year has been a transformative year for AI. ChatGPT was released November 30th, 2022 and sparked a media firestorm. By February of this year, a little over 2 months after launch, Ch [...]
Embracing the Power of AI: Advantages and Opportunities
What does AI have to say about AI? One of our contributors, asks the question, and compiles the results. [...]
BOOK REVIEW: Sarah Bakewell’s HUMANLY POSSIBLE: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking and Hope
Reviewing a new study of humanist thought and humanist lives from the 14th to the 20th centuries, in a book which appeals equally to those familiar with the historical context and those seek [...]
A Post-Truth World?
“How do we know?” is a perennial epistemological question. The answer is becoming more difficult with the advent of social media which helps to create misinformation, disinformation and epi [...]
Truth and Lies
The flaw in Enlightenment thought was to erect an intellectual hierarchy that could explain many phenomena, but which found itself inadequate to comprehend the realm of the traditional, the [...]
Truth and Lie in the Post-Truth World
Nietzsche’s lifelong thought predicted that this endless relativism would dawn upon the world of the future. He declared that humanity would end up in “nihilism,” a condition in which there [...]
Down a Blind Alley with the Freedom Convoy
The breath-taking inanity of the “Freedom Convoy” and the anti-vax movement is exposed in this piercing article by Ben D’Andrea. Are there no limits to this madness, based on misinformation [...]
Lying and Common Sense
Is lying always wrong? A consequentialist argues that Kant’s prohibition against lying must at times be set aside when the consequences of the truth are too dire. [...]
Democracy, Truth and the New Conspiracists
Is truth central to democracy? Janet Keeping explains why the two cannot be separated, and how anti-democratic forces are threatening this interdependence by spreading lies. [...]
Happy Girl: The Latimer Dialogues 4
The summations following are addressed to the jury – the audience. The lights come on the audience to denote their presence. Light comes on Brayford. Both Brayford and Neufeld read from note [...]