Mind Matters Natural and Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

Kenneth Francis

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Reflections on the ‘Brave New World’ of Farming

Unfortunately, we’ve come a long way from those Halcyon laidback hazy days of the sitcom TV classic, Green Acres

When it comes to farming, the Dutch government has decided nitrogen is the devil that plagues the Netherlands, but the UK government is fighting a war against its own Beelzebub which takes shape in the form of methane.

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Does the ‘Mind Have its Own Place’?

And does Trump’s Mind Matter When He Echos “Paradise Lost”?

Let us not forget that the Founding Fathers of the US Constitution all read, and were probably influenced, by Milton’s poem.

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Demons from the Id

One such strange condition of mental turmoil is schizophrenia.

A retired psychotherapist from Arizona who spent some 40 years working in hospitals and prisons with schizophrenic patients, was quite disturbed when his analysis of some patients pointed to the supernatural.

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Silent Forest in spring with beautiful bright sun rays

Agnosticism, Appearance, and Reality

Regarding God, the evidence for fact and truth on creation and morality is everywhere

People can be agnostic on many things, such as historical events, like the authenticity of the moon landings, who shot JFK, or even the existence of the external world.

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AI and the “Accursed Flower”

If AI ever gets too big for its algorithmic boots, God might ‘Tower-of-Babel’ it.

Whatever the AI pros and cons for or against human flourishing, never forget that the universe has a moral order.

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Cloud scape above carpathian mountains shot at sunset

How The Mind Perceives the External world

On first sight, we would see a person immediately in a phenomenological way and not scientifically.

Phenomenologically, our primary truths and experiences, if functioning properly, are sufficient to tell us all we need to know about an action, event or object.

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Do Spiders Dream of Arachnology Professors?

How did the spider know that the mirror on my car would attract its prey during daytime hours?

But webs aside, consider the other strange, sometimes ingenious, tiny creatures/organisms, like a colony of termites, that produce astonishing land structures.

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The Aesthetics of Imperfection and Decay

A lament for beauty in an age that no longer sees it

But there is something beautiful about the imperfection of certain objects, architecture, and in the Arts, especially old buildings, films, paintings, and music.

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