Thinking Beyond The Curriculum
Read More“Why do we do anything that we do? What is its purpose? What are we actually trying to achieve? The less we ask ourselves these questions about the things that we do, the more we hollow out the world into an empty pantomime of vacuous appearances, void of substance, meaning, and sense.“
Read More“It remains my conviction that life in 2026 can only be properly explained as the psychological consequence of multiple generations now suffering deep and unresolved traumas from a range of violent global shocks that we have utterly failed to create the appropriate structures for us to process healthily..“
Read More“What began a few years ago as a gnawing discomfort I had about how quickly people were outsourcing their thinking and creativity to generative Large Language Models (LLMs) now feels like being one of the few people who noticed a pattern of minor symptoms (coughs and rashes) appearing in the years before a deadly plague wiped out a whole civilisation.“
Read More“My suspicion is that, in a world where connections we used to have to work for ourselves have been repeatedly handed to us for so long (and without any resistance) by pre-loaded links and algorithms, adults raised in the previous paradigm will have seen a serious skills atrophy in their cognitive abilities to make such links for themselves, and children, who have never needed to develop those initial skills to atrophy, will be raised with a serious deficit“
Read More“The most powerful idea we can ever hear is this: if we took away money right now, everything that exists would still exist.“
Read More“We teachers are complicit in any increased “dumbness” our culture is showing because we are often the ones dumbing things down for the next generation.“
Read More"if these AI machines were conscious then we would effectively be using them as our slaves; they do not have a choice in the matter and are also not getting paid. This raises important questions on the morality of the use of AI" A student writes on AI and slavery...
Read More“The following essay for Philosophy Unleashed was produced by AI. ChatGPT to be precise. I asked it to attempt to write a Philosophy Unleashed post on the topic of the ethics of using ChatGPT to cheat in school work, and do it in the style of me as author. I will present the essay to you first, then show you how it came to be. As you read, ask yourself the question: if I hadn’t told you it was artificially generated, would you know that a human being didn’t write this? And if you know my work specifically, would you know that I hadn’t written it?“