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Month: October 2017

The Awakening of the Universe

2 silhouetted figured look into a starry expanse
October 12, 2017November 7, 2018 ~ Stephen Bradford Long ~ Leave a comment

In his brilliant introduction to artificial intelligence, Max Tegmark describes our existence as the universe waking up from a zombie slumber. As I’ve struggled to understand what I believe about God and the universe around me, I’ve found myself finding wonder and hope in the material universe itself.

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The Power of Curiosity

The Power of Curiosity
October 5, 2017November 7, 2018 ~ Stephen Bradford Long ~ Leave a comment

We live in frightening, polarizing times. Put more bluntly, we live in a horribly incurious time: we are incurious about the experience of others, the contents of their skulls, and what motivates them. This incuriosity is stoked from a thousand directions, from social media to bloggers to news outlets, all preying on our baser, animal instincts.

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