When Slavoj Žižek said to The Spectator that Coronavirus gives a new chance to Communism, he uttered a virus that I have to challenge. Of course, I don’t mean the old-style Communism. By Communism, I mean simply what the World… Continue Reading
All posts on »The Order of Freedom« are provocations to some degree, but this one is going to go even further in this respect. What if contemporary science proves beyond reasonable doubt the foundations of mysticism? What if science is… Continue Reading
In his original book, From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel Dennett closes a discussion with Steven Pinker whether memes constitute essential ingredients of culture (Dennett) or not (Pinker). Pinker claim is that since culture is intelligently designed, it does… Continue Reading
I do not want to repeat a story about Tai, artificial intelligence (AI) chat bot, which provoked violent reactions, so Microsoft closed it a day after the launch. For those who don’t know the story, click on two links in… Continue Reading
While there are so many proofs that animal and human behaviour is largely hardwired, there still lurks a question of learning. While it is true that we act faster than we think while confronted with certain danger, we still learn… Continue Reading
Brand is living complex system present on brains serving it as substrate. Continue Reading
Yes. It is Brands that prove something in reality like that artificial intelligence is impossible. Let’s be clear about what is referred to as artificial intelligence and what is artificial intelligence. Neither definitions are static though. Nothing in memetic world… Continue Reading
Life goes far beyond any graveyard. Continue Reading
How common sense “position of commons” become tragedy? Better: comedy. Continue Reading
Both hate speech and climate change panic share values of social constructivism. Both deny evolution as natural selection, both deny complexity that underlies not only evolution but all natural phenomena and both overestimate powers of human rationality. Social constructivism should thus be considered as major threat to human civilization at the moment. Continue Reading