I gave the following 5-minute talk titled “The Secret Sauce of Human Thriving” at the Long Now Boston Flash Talks event January 6, 02020. The inspiration was the challenge to “envision the future” – and to present a case for continued advances in human thriving 100 years in the future. I chose to focus on […]
In May I posted the Delicate Intricacies of Sex and Gender, noting some of the latest findings in science relevant to the cultural disputes dealing with sex and gender. I concluded that our cultural precepts about gender need to change. Needless to say, that is a huge challenge. Historically, one of the key drivers of […]
I have been arranging the speakers for the Long Now Boston Conversation Series. It has been taking quite a bit of my time (hence fewer posts on Spiral Inquiry) but the results have been satisfying. The fall program has been covering a very wide range of topics (see below). I also had the opportunity to […]
My presentation to the SSE on Emergence and Intention has been released on video. The presentation is based on my Essay The How and the Why of Emergence and Intention ((see: Spiral Inquiry post), and it offers a rebuttal of the multiverse theory and explains how the universe is fundamentally beneficent in its nature and […]
“…if people are given a choice to vote for a politician who says something will be costly and difficult, or a politician who says, ‘Trust me this is the path to wealth and greatness,’ they will go for the promise…, and not the prudence….” Long Now Boston Conversation April 5, 2018 A little over a […]
