An English Journey

Beliefs, thoughts, words and silence. I would tell a downright lie if I denied that I often rack my brains . Today is not an exception. I do have beliefs. For example, I do believe in mankind. I really do.  Yesterday, I was criticised by a reader on account of my last blog  post . Criticism can be defined as the expression of disapproval of someone or something on the basis of perceived faults or mistakes. The perceptions expressed in the message can be summed up as follow: I am deeply ignorant and condescending and my writing is grandiloquent . But it turns out that it is not strictly true . I am utterly ignorant about almost everything but saying that the rise of atheism resulted in " dictatorships , hunger and genocide " shows a deep flaw in the mind of this reader. New York 9/11, Madrid 14M, London 7/7. Terrorism, politics, fundamentalism and religion. The link is obvious to me. Luckily, people need to believe in something and I believe in people. Am ...

Once upon a time, people knew the difference between rightness and badness . As if it was an Opera, the history of AI (acronym of Artificial Intelligence) began promisingly, but then things started to go wrong. The opening of AI goes back to ancestry when the Greek mythology created Pandora, the first “artificial” woman. Each Olympus god was commissioned to make a contribution to Pandora’s process of creation with the sole aim of taking beauty into account. During the interlude, step by step, new features and unique gifts were conscientiously added by the band of male creators . They went to great lengths to make Pandora in their own image (a mental image of a sexually arousing creature). Pandora received a jar as a wedding present and was told not to open it. Thinking that it was a mere misdemeanour , she could not help opening the jar, triggering unexpected consequences. To the astonishment of the ancient Greek gods (and goddesses) of the epoch, the sad coda was th...