Palpitating Shiver of sea Sparkling splinter of Numinous ocean Gifted personality The Great Green Divested of all terror Its playfulness distilled to Living livery of wave I return new-born With Dawn’s Rose fingered bloom To find you Hoping you will Humour me (You always decide whether we shall meet In the scary deep) Yearning to grasp you On this moving Merry-go-round Of touching Not touching Today, will you be:

Part 2 — Homo Deus Continued from Part 1 Little escaped their minute attentions and predations: The Soul, an early casualty Of more precise instrumentation Senescence, just another Dragon to be slayed* The Mysteries gave way To complex refutation Too few paused To wonder whether Ever quicker Computation Would unleash…

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” (John Keats) A little piece of Heaven fallen to the Earth Lightness made heavy In the transubstantiation Of birth Kindled from the darkness Sung into being From an infinite shining no-thing: Thrown-blown Ringing-round Singing Bringing Divinity Free from useless suffering Though you must be

Shall I regurgitate those tired old tropes? Barbary apes, Rule Britannia Mottled Utrechtian paper With the keen eye of a British expatriate For the bleeding obvious Yet, when I see Gibraltar my heart swells Not just with Tales of past victories, sieges endured, Ramparts withstanding, bastions defended Or something half…

Where are you dreaming child of the sea? I awoke to the dawn without you. The first light of the day, Illuminated only your absent shadow. The memory of you Burned in my mind, Before I had opened my eyes. Only yesterday we drifted together contentedly and, with just one arm, I enclosed you completely.

Sleepy towns divided by a stone’s throw Speaking different languages within hearing distance And always the river’s lullaby Its gently caressing song: “your differences are arbitrary if only you would know and like my distant tributaries you form the same great flow” Two days we drifted languidly Past elephant and buffalo And children playing free All As we Schooled daily In flowing Sagacity

Part 1 — the rise of the Innovators* Once Upon a time There was a place (Deep in a gravity well) Where the tick tocking of time Had ran on ever and a day At the same pace Nothing much happened In that Arcadian land If by nothing You will…

As evolution is our only blueprint for life-forms it is difficult to conceive of any safe way for AI to develop that is separate from humans at least until humans are sufficiently enhanced to protect themselves (much as I love the 'Banks' technotopia) - the risks involved in the need for 'freedom to deviate algorithms' that would be required by such a non-human being to evolve: https://medium.com/ethics-of-life/ethics-of-life-philosophical-speculation-on-ai-d1cbe2043d4b and: https://medium.com/ethics-of-life/freewill-or-freedom-to-be-different/home The focus must be on development of enhanced humans as AI beings and the meta-ethical framework to manage resource use and conflict between life-forms with asymmetric power and varying functionality (i.e. humans and other life-forms, enhanced humans and unenhanced humans etc.) In doing this necessary work we also start to heal our dysfunctional attitudes and relationship with the biosphere and all other species.

Really enjoyed this article and thanks for clarifying that misunderstanding often made about the applicability of the 2nd law to open and closed systems Domino. BTW: isn't the psychological passage of time really arising from our perception of motion and ultimately causality? First A then B or if A then…