Technology

• Modern Medicine is not Humane

• A Brief History of the Digital Age

• The world's intelligence

• The Algorithmic Society and the Birth of Religion

• Day and Night

• You are a File

• The Decline of the Visual Sense

• The Internet is an Excuse not to Admit that We are What we are

• The Cognitive Value of Videogames

• The Greatest and Worst Inventions of the 20th Century

• Society and Technology

• Stages of Evolution

• Hyper-commerce

• Data Visualization

• The Age of Advertising Platforms

• A Wiki for President

• A Knowledge-Base is Not Knowledge

• The Gift Economy

• Like and Dislike

• The Medium is the Brain

• Universal Connectiveness

• The End of Exploration

• Democratizing Culture

• Toward a Linear World

• Regress

• A Cosmic Battle: Technology for Liberation vs Technology for Control

• The Medium is the Story

• The Two Cultures of the Smartphone Age

• Machine Intelligence and Human Stupidity (The Turing Test Revisited)

• Utopia and Jobs

• Wikipedia as a Force for Evil

• The Next Stage in Evolution: The World of Objects

• Anthropology of Postmodernist Popularity

• Race and Gender in Cyberspace

• The Price of Free Services

• Literacy and Superstition in the Age of the Internet

• Millennium Question: Using the vast amount of information left by people on social media, will we be able to resurrect the dead as digital zombies?

• Creation and Ownership of Information

Creativity

• Creativity in Art and Science

• Creativity is a Property of Poverty not of Wealth

• For a History of Creativity

• The Genetic Origins of Creativity

• The Brain is a Machine to Create Problems

• From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Creativity

• The Difference Between You and It (Cognition vs Creativity)

• The Historical Memory of Humans and their Urge to Change

• Rules Save Lives but not Brains

• The Universal Law of Happenstance

• Social Animal or Curious Animal?

• Creativity is a Why not a What (slide presentation)
• Art, Science and Creativity (slide presentation)

Art and Science

• Creativity in Art and Science

• The Separation of Art and Science

• The Asymmetry Between Artists and Scientists

• Notes on Art and Science

• The Straight Line and the Labyrinth

  (for Artpractical Magazine)

Art & History of Art

• Art since World War II

• The Artist as both a Revolutionary and a Propagandist

• Art as the Tool to Communicate Consciousness

• The Meaning of Art

• Digital Interactive Art

• Art in the Age of Irregularity

• The Two Sides of Art Histories

• The Real History of Art

• A Brief History of Art/ A Theory of the Evolution of Art from Prehistory to Abstraction

• Two-faced Aesthetics

• Elitist Art, Unpopular Art and Popular Art

• The Quest for Authenticity

History

• Speaking Gave us a Symbolic Mind

• Smartphones Killed Revolutions

• Where are they? They will destroy us

• Where are they? They self-destroy like us

• The Human Race is Genetically Programmed for Self-destruction

• A New History of Prehistory
• The Meat Diet

• From Non-commercial Societies to Market Societies

• Five Steps towards Physical and Existential Survival

• The Natural, the Unnatural and Life's Destiny

• Crime and State

• Play and Civilization (Creativity series)

• Cultural Uniformity and Physical Diversification

• From Fairness to God: How the Meek ended up ruling the World

• History was just a Brief Interlude

• History is Uniquely Human

• The Rise of A/C Civilizations

• The USA and the Decline of the West

• The Unpredictable Harm of Good Intentions

• Predicting the Future of Side Effects

• Greed

• Spontaneous Movements

• The Barbarians

• Change and its Opposite

• Alcohol and Meat

• The Origin of Superstition

• Human societies Are Systems at the Edge of Chaos

• The Meaning of Life

• Envy

• Opposites Reinforce Each Other

• The Cognitive Closure of Civilizations

• Revisiting the Sexual Revolution

Sociology

• Fake News is the Hallmark of Human Civilization

• A Brief History of Peace

• Fake News are a Consequence of Rationality

• Of Being and not Being

• The Biggest Ecological Disaster: The Human Race

• The Future of the Symbolic Mind

• The Genetics and Neuroscience of Torture

• The Competition between News and Adverts

• Children and the Elderly in the Secular Society

• The Age of Experience

• Death is not a Binary Value

• The Death of the Hero

• Living Longer, Healthier... and more Selfish Lives

• The Deregulation of Sexuality

• Abortion and Euthanasia

• Society and Technology

• The Cognitive Development of Pretty Girls

• The Fear of Loneliness

• The Soul left the Body

• Youth Suprematism

• Drugs and the Search for Happiness

• The New Pagans

• The Meaning of Life and Variety

• A Change in Lifestyle Will Save the Planet

• Decoupling Quality of Life and Wealth

• The Meaning of Job Mobility

• Utopia is Dissent

• We Hate the Planet

• The Rule of Law and Common Sense

• The Meaning of Inebriating Substances

• Children, Education, Family Values

• Education as Reeducation

• Power Shift

• The Demise of Friendship

• Lost and Acquired Skills

• Happiness

• The Shallow Culture of Busy Lives

• The Age of Loneliness

• The Digital Individual

• The Abolition of Time

• The Society of Pets

• A Defense of Inequality (The Age of Social Justice; the Generation of the Rule Enforcers)

• Revising the Myth of Longevity

• A Cosmic Battle: Rational vs Irrational Memes

• The Psychology of Road Rage

• History of Advertising

• The End of Childhood

• What Creates Reality

• The Age of Marketing: Turning Luxuries into Necessities

• A Brief History of Loneliness

• Greed

• The Irrelevance of Time

• Gene-culture Coevolution

• Millennium Question: Would it be ok to just plug you into a device and inject substances in your body that will keep you happy all the time?

• Millennium Question: Will globalization make the only surviving gobal culture very strong or very weak?

• Millennium Question: What are 21st century people willing to sacrifice in order to acquire wisdom?

• Does the Future still Exist?

• The Rule of the Dumb

• The Opaque Civilization

• The Demise of the Unknown

• Power after Biopower

Morality

• A Brief History of Human Violence

• The Paradox of Parenting

• The Paradox of Hospitality

• How Contemporary Morality is Created

• The Origin of Empathy

• Caring for the Future

• The Moral Scientist

• Beyond Knowledge

• A Defense of Inequality (The Age of Social Justice; the Generation of the Rule Enforcers)

• Loss of Identity and Morality

• Evil

• Shame and Morality

• A Brief History of Morality in the Post-Industrial Age

• Sex and Morality

• Millennium Question: Is the product of evolution always good?

• The Demise of Empathy

• Wisdom is a Malfunctioning Brain

Religion

• Religion is Immortal

• We Believe in Gods because otherwise we wouldn't be

• The World of Facts

• Post-neuroscience Religion

• Religion, Science, Drugs

• The Religion of the Future

• Religion and Mass Media

• The Dead and the Living

• Paradise

• The Algorithmic Society and the Birth of Religion

• Stories will Survive Rituals

Science

• Free Will is a General Property of the Universe

• Equations approximate Algorithms

• Nature Never Repeats Itself

• You are an Abstraction

• The Age of Big Data and the Death of Theory

• The Higgs Universe
• The Fittest Species: Who is Winning the War for Survival
• The Biggest Problem of All: The End of the World is Coming

• The Regge Hypotheses

• The Science of Uncertainty

• The Curse of Gravity

• The Origin of the Copyright

• Tradition and Innovation

• The Reverse of Entropy

• The Perfect Body and Evolution

• The Spiderweb

• The Age of Abstraction

• Endosymbiosis

• The Quest for Beauty

• Alive and Dead

• Gene-culture Coevolution

• Nature is a Vast Cemetery

• Millennium Question: What kind of medium can help us perceive other universes that are based on different physical laws?

• Millennium Question: Could humans perceive two or three dimensions of time some day if we changed the way time is used?

• Millennium Question: Can our senses perceive a universe without the interference of us being in it?

• Millennium Question: Is there any way to prove that the past really existed other than trusting today's objects and an unreliable brain?

• Millennium Question: If we played all the laws of physics in all possible combinations for an infinite time, what state would never be produced?

• There is no Doing and no Undoing.

  Science is the Discipline of Unhappiness