In her book, Artificial You, philosopher and author, Susan Schneider says that if Aliens visit Earth, they will most likely…
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If the question or some of the words in the title are unfamiliar to you, it means: could consciousness be…
The recent release of a government report on UFOs leaves more questions unanswered than answered. There is little to link…
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In 2004, I wrote I, Carlos, a novel in which a new form of entertainment, called neurostories, involved implanting a…
Some books have the power to generate iconic images of the future. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, for instance, with…
Our human minds were constructed over hundreds of thousands of years (actually millions of years, considering pre-human evolution), cellular circuit…
Could humans disappear from earth? Far-fetched as it sounds, the chances of such an outcome are not as small as…