My name is Kourosh Alizadeh, I’m a philosophy PhD, data science student, and author of Toontoony the Magpie, which is a book of brief stories sort of like bedtime stories for grownups. I write philosophy …
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Alternative Perspectives on the Possibility of AI
Many people take it for granted that humanity could one day create conscious, thinking machines. This kind of Artificial Intelligence has been explored in media since the dawn of science fiction (think I, Robot or Terminator). Let’s be …
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Well once we start it is difficult to stop. Cream and blue a plot thickens. Miranda Cassanova kisses her heels. Although we can tell with ease the name of her future children, numerous other questions …
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The Logical Structure of Religion
In this article I will not argue for or against religion or argue about specific features of different religions. Instead, my aim is to show how the key features of all religions can be derived …
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Here as elsewhere what concerns us is the possibility of the continuity of objects as they move through space. Spatial change can be understood without continuous objects as a succession of states of matter and …
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Card Advantage in Daily Life
The overall aim of this series of articles is to explore connections between Magic and everyday life. I’m sure we’ve all heard our friends (or ourselves) make jokes like saying ‘sadness on the stack? resolves’ …
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Dialogue on Fear, pt2
Then Paul started it back up. “How about this, Bill? What if we just say that bravery and cowardice mean just what they do in our everyday talk? I think we’ve said enough here today …
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Creeping slowly a lizard in the attic would like to look down on you but all he sees is the floor. But even this is enough to insult you strange fate the whispers your mother …
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Stella in Autumn
Deep in the mountains, black under the veil of the clouds, where a thousand flowers adorn the trees and a thousand beetles scurry under the leaves, lived a small deer-child, a faun. That day it …
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Toontoony, small comfort the sun at midday smiles at dawn frown when it all goes wrong and what are we really – worms at war with birds cowards hiding in the herds. Nancy is pretty …
