Essays, Analyses and Meditations

"Synthesis" (pub. 2009) The Curse of Gravity The Spiderweb The Mind Civilization What Is the Dao of an Ant Civilizations of Sound The Age of Abstraction The Abolition of Time The Society of Pets Creativity in Art and Science The Infinite The Separation of Art and Science The Cognitive Closure Religion, Science, Drugs Greed The Barbarians Change and its Opposite Regress The Irrelevance of Time Endosymbiosis The Meaning of Art Identity Alcohol and Meat Creativity is a Property of Poverty not of Wealth For a History of Creativity The Origin of Superstition Human societies Are Systems at the Edge of Chaos The Digital Individual Toward a Linear World Meditation The Age of Loneliness The Relativity of Truth Democratizing Culture Evil The Meaning of Life Aphorisms The Quest for Beauty Also check A New History of Prehistory The Genetics and Neuroscience of Torture Automation and Jobs in the Age of Intelligent Machines The Fittest Species: Who is Winning the War for Survival The Biggest Problem of All: The End of the World is Coming My favorite formulas Artificial Omnipotency The Meat Diet The Higgs Universe Millennium Questions Principles of Covariant Wisdom

After the publication of "Synthesis" (Tentative title: "God is dead Nietzsche is dead Marx is dead Freud is dead Who is left?") The End of Exploration Alive and Dead Life is a Soliloquy Happiness The Demise of Friendship Finite States and Conscious States Envy Opposites Reinforce Each Other Universal Connectiveness The Cognitive Closure of Civilizations Lost and Acquired Skills Human Insanity The Perfect Body and Evolution Utopia and Jobs The Reverse of Entropy Spontaneous Movements Education as Reeducation Loss of Identity and Morality Power Shift Predicting the Future of Side Effects The Dead and the Living The Meaning of Inebriating Substances Children, Education, Family Values The Unpredictable Harm of Good Intentions The Genetic Origins of Creativity The Medium is the Brain (this became a chapter in "Demystifying Machine Intelligence") The Rule of Law and Common Sense Hypotheses on the Omega Point The Gift Economy Like and Dislike The Asymmetry Between Artists and Scientists The Science of Uncertainty We Hate the Planet The Zombies Among Us The USA and the Decline of the West Utopia is Dissent Two-faced Aesthetics The Category of Non-reducibles We Are Just a Simulation A Knowledge-Base is Not Knowledge Beyond Knowledge Sex and Morality The Meaning of Job Mobility Language and Wisdom Gene-culture Coevolution Decoupling Quality of Life and Wealth Wikipedia as a Force for Evil (this became a chapter in "Demystifying Machine Intelligence") The Intelligence of Limbs A Wiki for President The Moral Scientist A Change in Lifestyle Will Save the Planet The Regge Hypotheses Hyper-commerce Data Visualization The Age of Advertising Platforms The Meaning of Life and Variety The Rise of A/C Civilizations The New Pagans The Brain is a Machine to Create Problems Stages of Evolution The Decline of Consciousness Machine Intelligence and Human Stupidity (The Turing Test Revisited) (this became a chapter in "Demystifying Machine Intelligence") From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Creativity Cultural Uniformity and Physical Diversification Drugs and the Search for Happiness The Greatest and Worst Inventions of the 20th Century The Difference Between You and It (Cognition vs Creativity) Day and Night Free Will From Fairness to God: How the Meek ended up ruling the World Digital Interactive Art Art in the Age of Irregularity Revising the Myth of Longevity (this became a chapter in "Demystifying Machine Intelligence") History was just a Brief Interlude History is Uniquely Human The Origin of Empathy The Nonlinear Origins of Free Will The Age of Big Data and the Death of Theory The Soul left the Body Revisiting the Sexual Revolution Life is Overrated The Next Stage in Evolution: The World of Objects (this became a chapter in "Demystifying Machine Intelligence") The Cognitive Development of Pretty Girls Youth Suprematism Paradise Play and Civilization (Creativity series) The Religion of the Future A Cosmic Battle: Technology for Liberation vs Technology for Control The Paradox of Hospitality The Paradox of Parenting The Two Sides of Art Histories The Age of Experience Anthropology of Postmodernist Popularity A Cosmic Battle: Rational vs Irrational Memes The Historical Memory of Humans and their Urge to Change Rules Save Lives but not Brains Shame and Morality The Real History of Art The Medium is the Story The Two Cultures of the Smartphone Age A Defense of Inequality (The Age of Social Justice; the Generation of the Rule Enforcers; Inequality in the Age of Information) Race and Gender in Cyberspace The Psychology of Road Rage Post-neuroscience Religion History of Advertising The End of Childhood The Natural, the Unnatural and Life's Destiny What Creates Reality A Brief History of Morality in the Post-Industrial Age The Price of Free Services The Mind's Immune System A Brief History of Art/ A Theory of the Evolution of Art from Prehistory to Abstraction The Age of Marketing: Turning Luxuries into Necessities A Brief History of Loneliness The Origin of the Copyright The Shallow Culture of Busy Lives The Fear of Loneliness Literacy and Superstition in the Age of the Internet The Universal Law of Happenstance Elitist Art, Unpopular Art and Popular Art Tradition and Innovation Crime and State How Contemporary Morality is Created Matter is as Inscrutable as Mind Caring for the Future Death is not a Binary Value You are a File The Decline of the Visual Sense The Artist as both a Revolutionary and a Propagandist The Deregulation of Sexuality Nature is a Vast Cemetery The Death of the Hero You are an Abstraction The Internet is an Excuse not to Admit that We are What we are Children and the Elderly in the Secular Society Abortion and Euthanasia Society and Technology The Cognitive Value of Videogames Five Steps towards Physical and Existential Survival Art since World War II The Competition between News and Adverts From Non-commercial Societies to Market Societies The Cacophony of Life Living Longer, Healthier... and more Selfish Lives Memory, Identity, Self-deception Art as the Tool to Communicate Consciousness Religion and Mass Media The Algorithmic Society and the Birth of Religion The Demise of Empathy There is no Doing and no Undoing Science is the Discipline of Unhappiness Wisdom is a Malfunctioning Brain Does the Future still Exist? The Quest for Authenticity Creation and Ownership of Information Stories will Survive Rituals The Rule of the Dumb Beyond Consciousness The Invisible Technology of the Future The Opaque Civilization Cognition is Noise The Demise of the Unknown Knowledge is a Spiral of Ignorance Power after Biopower Social Animal or Curious Animal? Children's Stupidity, Adult Intelligence and Machine Intelligence The World's Intelligence The Future of the Symbolic Mind The Human Race is Genetically Programmed for Self-destruction Where are they? They self-destroy like us The Biggest Ecological Disaster: The Human Race Modern Medicine is not Humane Of Being and not Being A Brief History of Human Violence Fake News is a Consequence of Rationality A Brief History of Peace Fake News is the Hallmark of Human Civilization The Life of Stories The World of Facts Why Brains Love Disasters Smartphones Killed Revolutions Brains Create Identical Objects The Origin of Abstract Thinking Where are they? They will destroy us Nature Never Repeats Itself The Symbolic Life Speaking Gave us a Symbolic Mind We Believe in Gods because otherwise we wouldn't be Equations approximate Algorithms Life eats Life All Men are Rapists The Self does not Exist, Free Will does Religion is Immortal The Real "I" is not the Soul but the Deeds and it's Immortal Is Consciousness Conserved and Is there Life After Death? Free Will is a General Property of the Universe Smarter Parents Have Dumber Children See also the opinion pieces