Does Faking a Fake World Make It Real? Is the fake of a fake real? People are having a harder and harder time figuring that out. The implications for personality and character are significant. Leading technologies will lead the way. To understand the new “realities” we should consider changes in social media – like the […]
How You View Your Body Changes Your Body (10/17/12)
Thought As Action Ideas change the world. They also change your body. In the early nineteenth century scientists worked eagerly to discover the fundamentals of chemistry. Using progressively more accurate equipment they measured the ratio of oxygen to hydrogen in water, of oxygen to carbon in what we now call carbon dioxide. The ratios they […]
Are You A Figment of Someone’s Imagination? (9/20/12)
Nothing is Always Something Could I and everything I know be nothing more than lines of computer code? The movie “The Matrix” and the manga and books it spawned enthralled and appalled. Yet the idea of the universe as “mere” artificially created information lies at the base of much human creativity. Mathematical equations describe multiple […]
Whatever Happened to Guilt? (8/15/12)
Character and Personality in America What has happened to the moral landscape of this country? We read that after helping blow the world economy, bankers went on to “fix” arguably the most important interest rate in the world and laundered money to Iran; that the most heralded sports heroes took performance enhancing drugs; that the […]
Is There a Personality for Longevity? (6/19/12)
Does Personality Change Regeneration? The Next Century Centenarians – people who live to more than 100 – are very popular these days, and not just in older towns like Sarasota. They receive presidential visits and special TV interviews; some get invited to pitch products displaying America’s matchless marketing. But why are they so popular? Is […]