1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
The aurochs' last bellow echoed through Poland's Jaktorów Forest in 1627, marking Europe's first recorded megafaunal extinction.¹ This wild...
Executive Summary
This investigative report examines the political, scientific, and ethical dimensions of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the twenty-first century. It argues that the...
The cyberpunk futures we once relegated to dog-eared paperbacks and neon-soaked anime are no longer speculative fiction. They are the mundane reality of our...
Corporations are replacing greenwashing with greenhushing—strategic silence on climate goals to dodge lawsuits and regulators, while profits soar and action stalls.
Introduction: The Paradox of Significance
In the vastness of a universe containing billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, the human mind naturally grapples...
The notion that consciousness pervades all of nature might seem like a relic of pre-scientific thinking, yet panpsychism—the view that mentality is a fundamental...
Analysis and Summary of John Ashmead’s “How Many Universes Are There, Anyway?”Balticon Presentation, May 23rd, 2015
Summary
John Ashmead’s presentation at Balticon 2015, titled How Many...
By Kevin Parkerwith full credit to Dr. Antoine Suarez, Center for Quantum Philosophy, Zurich and Geneva
Introduction
In his 2018 presentation “Future Contingents and the Multiverse,”...
Is a machine capable of independent consciousness, or is consciousness an exclusively biological phenomenon? This question has moved from science fiction into serious interdisciplinary...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often discussed in terms of data, algorithms, and logic – a thoroughly material domain. Yet the provocative statement “AI is...