Bruce Charlton's Notions

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" ...

There is an activity that might be termed Spiritual History; by which I mean a purported history that derives from within a particular spiri...

Mine looked somewhat like this My family had a series of (about five?) Minis across about twenty-five years, and starting with a very early ...

Andy Thomas. Strange: Paranormal realities in the everyday world . Watkins: London, 2025. pp 288. When it comes to the paranormal - as with ...

What follows is meant to provide an historical analogy for a current real world situation - i.e. the Western proxy-war against the  Fire Nat...

Like most Men though history; I regard "entropy" as the fundamental problem of this mortal life on earth - in other words, what th...

One of the problems about a discussing the supernatural or paranormal with a typical mainstream modern materialist-atheist; is that he regar...

The Wing Commander in Target for Tonight - master of 1941 Received Pronunciation and British Officer understated not-acting I am aware of tw...

One thing about "AI" is that whenever someone points out a drawback, people will try to frame the opposition as opposition to just...

The remarkable character of Captain Shotover speaks some of Shaw's wisest and deepest words If anyone is inclined to try out one of Bern...

There is a very great deal of untruthfulness in the world today! More than there was even as recently as forty years ago - although, of cour...

This is my great grand-uncle George Graham (1870-1956), from Ballynagilly, County Tyrone, Ireland. He bought "Woodview" - where I ...

Some very high-up members of the totalitarian Establishment have recently been seeding the mainstream mass media with predictions and warnin...

I have given-up on  So Many  blogs and vlogs and user-groups lately! As everything fills-up with adverts, and funding requests, and buy-my-m...

Everybody nowadays complains about the lies, bribes, coercions and other psychological manipulations of the leadership class.  But Modern M...

Now it is evident that the party political system is a bribery and blackmail machine; it may be possible to understand the Right-Left divide...

Bernard Shaw was often silly, childish and reckless to the point of breaking stuff and causing injuries (especially driving a car) - here he...

Natural selection is a real thing, albeit that it did not ( could not ) lead to the "origin of species" and the diversity of (wha...

Genuine  political Nationalism was the first "ideology", it came after the collapse of religion as the primary organizing princip...

...But don't ask me about my metaphysical assumptions (The above being the argumentative strategy of all churches) The generations-long...