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Off the keyboard of Stuck in NJ Follow us on Twitter @doomstead666 Friend us on Facebook Published on The Burning Platform on September 20, 2013 Discuss this article at the Spirituality & Mysticism Table inside the Diner PROLOGUE ...

In the upcoming sci-fi drama "Arrival," several mysterious spacecraft touch down around the planet, and humanity is faced with how to approach — and eventually communicate — with these extraterrestrial visitors. In the film, a team of experts is assembled...

I like thinking about technological disruptions that take place over really long periods of time. This is because the older a technology being disrupted, the more profound the social impact. In my disruption of bronze post, I speculated about one that...

Leibniz’s Dream Gottfried Leibniz—who died 300 years ago this November—worked on many things. But a theme that recurred throughout his life was the goal of turning human law into an exercise in computation. Of course, as we know, he didn’t succeed....

What makes us human? The quality that separates us from all other creatures ─ that is irrefutably, uniquely ‘human’ ─ is language. Language is exquisite in its properties and its potential. We use it to convey information; describe places, objects and...