Superintelligence is tentatively defined as “any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest” [1, p. 26]. In other words, an entity whose intelligence vastly exceeds a highly intelligent person of today would be called superintelligent. Nick Bostrom, the author of “Superintelligence: Paths…

In a 2019 post titled “Moving Toward a New Social Dynamic,” I argued that the power dynamic between the male and female sexes is changing. Such changes are affording women more power in the male/female relationship and are leading our societies to establish fairer norms and equal rights and opportunities…

Introduction A while back, when I was reading the Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation (AKA: the psychology of unconscious), I decided to make a note of every symbol that Dr. Jung discussed in his books in order to collect them all in one place…

Hadi and I have been working on the subject of Conscious AI, the pre-print of our work is available through arxiv.org. I have posted the abstract here and you can download the full article PDF file on the arxiv.org website. “Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have achieved human-scale speed…

Are our imaginations real? Like what we perceive (see or hear) through our eyes and ears or what we feel through touch. How is our imagination related to our perceived reality if it is not real? From a neurological perspective, both perceived reality and imagination seem to be equally the…

As much as a college professor relies on their past teaching experience and training, one should also reflect on their students’ years when teachers themselves were the consumers of what they are delivering now in classrooms. By reflecting on those years, teachers may ask themselves such questions as: why did…

According to Galleta et al. (2020), the bar for academic publishing has continuously been rising in the last few decades. As much as this sounds good and implies higher-quality scientific publications, it also can jeopardize the integrity of scholarly works and hence hamper the truthfulness and reliability of the published…

A while ago I read a post by Payam Banazadeh on the importance of having a non-moving reference point in life which inspired me to write about different relative reference points that we unknowingly and sometimes knowingly adopt in our daily lives and further investigate the possibility of choosing non-moving…

One must assume total responsibility for his actions and feelings! Accepting full responsibility may make sense for actions. You do something; you are responsible for it. However, there are certain situations under social structure and laws that people are not held accountable for their actions, including when a person is…