Last year, I did pretty well, keeping my New Year’s resolutions. I feel that I did increase my fitness – I made 10,000 steps almost every day of the year. I started a strength routine that — while patchy — showed me that strength training is important to my well-being. I achieved my Kayak levels …
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Finding reality in a world of representations
We live in a world of images. It wasn’t always so. I am 49 years old. I turn 50 in late January. When I was a kid, I had a fairly simple life, immersed in the “real”. While I was born in North York, a northern suburb of Toronto, I grew up in far-flung development …
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You will have a Lifelong AI Friend
I think that artificial intelligence is going to have a totalizing impact on anything digital in our economy and society. This will lead to a rapid transformation of our culture and sense of self. We see the precursors to this transformation in the effects of social and digital media on people. Individual and social cognition, …
Categories of reality
We think we need to categorize in order to appreciate or understand something. This is reductive, eroding that ability to appreciate the ineffable which is our true genius. Understanding comes not in labels, categories, but in an appreciation of reality in its depth and elegance, in the moment and across time in the past and …