Over the last few decades, the idea of “now” as the only reference point in our lives has been popularized almost to death, an idea that, although attractive, is too often devalued and distorted in such a way that it is presented as disconnecting. of a past that has already passed and not worry ab…
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Just because you don’t understand me doesn’t mean I don’t know what I am doing
Recently, an organization asked for my help with a community project that involved conducting a certain number of interviews with a group that had no prior contact with the organization. I implemented my strategy, and within a few hours, I surpassed the minimum number of interviews they had requeste…
Forging new paths: from a poem by Antonio Machado to commercial spacewalks
As Antonio Machado says in his well-known poem, "Wayfarer, there is no way, / the path is made by walking," emphasizing that " Wayfarer, there is no way, / only wake-trails in the sea." But there is no doubt that some travelers intentionally undo the path they’ve walked so that no one else can foll…
Social media’s dangerous trivialization of discrimination and racism
Recently, for reasons known only to the unknown gods who govern the mysterious algorithms, short videos with a common theme—discrimination and racism—started appearing on my social media feed. However, the message presented in these videos, far from addressing this serious social issue, clearly aims…
From fiction to reality: the imaginal as access to new levels of reality
Less than 30 years ago (1995), the episode "Explorers" from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine featured Commander Benjamin Sisko creating a replica of an ancient spacecraft powered by solar sails. Now, NASA has announced that a new spacecraft has successfully deployed its solar sails.
Also, 30 years ago …
Astropolitics and the Corporate Space Race: A Dangerous Rebirth of Colonial Ambitions
While we dedicate all our attention to new videos, all our concern to the "Likes," and all our anxiety to the results of our favorite team (in whatever sport it may be), the new space exploration seems dangerously to recreate the colonial and exploitative imperialism that has prevailed in the world …
Algorithms and monologues: from fragmented communication to the loss of the sacred
I recently witnessed (by chance, without participating) a strange exchange at a social gathering in which one person brought up a topic and shared a very brief comment, and then another person spoke about another topic, unconnected to the previous one, and so on. It was seeing the flow of posts on F…
Embracing the Limits of Wisdom: Socratic Insights for Our Times
In the Apology of Socrates (23a), Plato presents Socrates explaining that when the Oracle of Delphi declared him the wisest of all human beings, what the oracle really meant was that Socrates' wisdom lay in understanding that "human wisdom is worth little or nothing." Almost two and a half millennia…
Echoes of Enlightenment: The Perils of Delegating Thought in a Fragmented World
With some frequency, both in direct conversations and through social networks, I hear or read people who are looking for a guru, or reference, or influencer who provides them with answers and solutions for the problems that these people face in their lives in the context of an increasingly chaotic, …
The perpetual cycle of limiting narratives: Resisting activation of quantum narratives
I recently met, entirely by chance, a young man who, shortly after beginning a casual conversation, indicated to me that he had already abandoned a certain limiting belief to which he had been attached since childhood. But before I could say anything it was clear that this young man had replaced his…
Do Tachyons Unmask the Enigma of the Future?
Imagine a world where the boundaries of time and space blur, where the impossible becomes possible, and where the mysteries of the universe unravel before our eyes. This is precisely the realm of tachyons, those hypothetical particles that exceed the speed of light.
For decades, tachyons have cap…
Intelligent robots with human brains: A sci-fi future now is a reality
I recently read an article about a topic that is gaining a lot of interest: the arrival of intelligent robots with "human brain organoids." This idea, which a few years ago seemed like something out of science fiction, is now a reality thanks to researchers at Tianjin University in China.
Brain o…
Cultivating Timeless Wisdom: Ensuring the Legacy of Humanity for 12,000 Years
I recently read an article (on Phys.org) stating that archaeologists found evidence that Australian Aboriginal communities transmitted the same ritual from one generation to the next for 50 generations, that is, from 12,000 years ago (the end of the Ice Age) to the present. I wonder if we have the a…
AI Will Soon Reach a “Significant Level” in Our Lives
I still remember the not-so-distant time when we weren't enslaved by a smartphone as we are now, to the point where we panic at the thought of leaving the house without it. However, it seems that soon our dependence on artificial intelligence will become even deeper, though perhaps not as evident.
…Has AI become a kind of almost inquisitorial censorship?
A few days ago, I read an article (I'm intentionally not going to give other details) in which an expert on the subject of AI stated that, due to algorithms, less and less information can be shared on social networks since almost any message that one shares can be automatically removed. I wanted to …
We are trapped inside an infinite lie, that of being ourselves
Reality seems so real to us and dreams so unreal that we often lose sight of the fact that we declare the real as real precisely by comparing it with dreams, which we declare as unreal because, when we wake up, their state of reality becomes evident. unreality. However, what if reality was a dream f…
AI generates fear, or maybe we are afraid of ourselves
To the growing fear (real or imaginary) that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon leave us all without jobs, a new fear is now added: that AI will soon take away our free will and our ability to act, according to recent statements by Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twitter (now called X).
In an inter…
We are perhaps the only humans in the galaxy, but not on our planet
A recent revision of the famous Drake Equation (used since the middle of the last century to determine how many intelligent civilizations exist in our galaxy) seems to indicate that we are probably the only humans in the Milky Way. Whether that conclusion is true or not, the truth is that we are no …
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On May 24, Mitsubishi engineers announced that an intelligent robot they created solved the famous Rubik's Cube in just 0.3 seconds. It is worth mentioning that in 2016 the fastest time for a robot to solve the Rubik's cube was one minute, compared to 1:04 minutes in 2009.
Among humans, the best …
Our foolish abuse of new technologies threatens our very future
We live in a time of so much scientific and technological advance that we can now (almost) detect megastructures of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy and that we can now (without the “almost”) digitally duplicate any person, living or dead, and interact with that person. But so much techn…
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