Hans-Peter Plag: The Meaning of Life

It's not about what we can do but about what we feel when we do it.

It's not about the poem we write but about what the poem we write does to us.

While Generative Artificial Intelligence tools might write poems that seem to be better than our poems, writing the poem will not create an exp ...

Hans-Peter Plag: AI Does not have the “Feeling of Life Itself” - it is Depleting our Life Experience

In many publication considering the challenges or dangers of AI, the fact that AI can do many things better than humans is the basis for a reasoning that AI might take jobs away from people and increase productivity. This is a fundamentally flawed view on the impact of AI. It is flawed because it ...

Hans-Peter Plag: On the Importance of Choices

Barry said a few days ago that the web pages of Place4Us offer too many choices. He claimed that people get confused and don't want to have so many choices.

I agree that young people today live in a world where choices are made for them by algorithms. During the time they spend with their sma ...

Hans-Peter Plag: On who we are and the benefits and dangers of Chatbots

Reading John Naughton's article "ChatGPT isn’t a great leap forward, it’s an expensive deal with the devil" published on Feb 4, 2023 in The Guardian, I re ...

Barry Clemson: Stages of Consciousness

Probably the best known examples in the Western world are Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and Kohlberg’s stages of moral development. Ken Wilber (A Brief History of Everything) is probably the most authoritative and most widely respected author in this area. Wilber found about 200 diffe ...