Bruce Charlton's Notions

A very nice version of the Sussex Carol follows an excellent syncopated instrumental version of Christmas Day in the Morning; from a folk b...

In parts of Europe such as Germany and France; today is "celebrated" as St Nicholas Day in which children who do not conform to ad...

Nearly everybody nowadays (except young children, and maybe some residual tribal people) believes that the universe was originally unalive, ...

We need to be sufficiently sure of our bottom-line convictions that they will serve strongly to fuel our personal motivation - so that we ha...

I remember the answer to this question from personal experience, from remembering my earlier self. Modern people are indifferent to eternal ...

Peoples' understanding of the world around them is substantially a matter of their explanatory models - to the point that experience and...

Current attitudes to "AI" are an example of the way that hierarchical power elicits compliance, by psychological methods and the h...

Experience  > Knowledge Reality > Truth Thinking > Feeling The above are notations or summaries of what may be chosen as ways of un...

I recently reviewed Andy Thomas's book about the "paranormal" experiences reported by ordinary people.  It is a common respon...

The current primary global strategy for replacing people with "AI" programs; amounts to the substitution of a "Magic 8 Ball...

The number of comments has recently declined to the point that it has become rather a waste of my time periodically checking e-mails in orde...

Setting-aside arguments about economic necessity (which very seldom hold water*) it is surely a blazingly obvious fact that monetizing of bl...

The global Establishment "AI" project began almost exactly three years ago - with the multi-national, multi-pronged, coordinated ...

It seems to me that Christianity - as I understand it , is qualitatively different from "religion". I regard Christianity as in es...

Looking very pleased with himself - And No Wonder! There is an composer of church music, including some Christmas carols and songs, called J...

I need not bother to provide evidence of how little the Establishment cares about the safety of children in the UK.  All their favourite str...

Thoreau by Wyeth - depicting one of the earliest spiritual adolescents I have been re-reading HD Thoreau 's Walden  (1854) - starting at...

Get them while they're young... Sometimes the massive popularization of a term is symptomatic* of deep civilizational disorder: two inst...

William James Tychonievich has written a blog post about a fictional book that (as part of its story) attempts (albeit from a Jewish rather...

I don't go looking for trouble, so I had not realized until now that people are confidently saying that such-and-such an "AI" ...