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Post No. 27: WHERE ARE THE WISE LEADERS?
A poem to start this post: Where Are the Wise Leaders? I look out at many wars Safe in my cozy palace. I cringe at easy brutality Driven...
Martin Sullivan
Oct 25, 20237 min read
Post. No. 26: Being Human
Those fossil fuel protesters at the U.S. Open tennis match distracted me into writing the previous post on climate change. My original...
Martin Sullivan
Sep 30, 20237 min read
Post No. 25: Climate Change
The other day I was watching the semi-final women’s tennis match of the U.S. Open when it was interrupted by a group of protesters in the...
Martin Sullivan
Sep 11, 20238 min read
Post No. 24: Robots and US
Now that we have an informed amateur’s idea about AI (see Posts 21 - 23), it might be worthwhile to explore which elements of AI are...
Martin Sullivan
Sep 5, 20235 min read
Post No. 23: Artificial Intelligence, Part Three
Part One on this topic described how to use interactive AI through Microsoft’s Bing ChatGPT4 and gave some examples. Part Two gave a...
Martin Sullivan
Aug 1, 20239 min read
Post No. 22: Artificial Intelligence, Part Two
The last post on artificial intelligence described how easy it is to use Microsoft’s Bing chatbot. It also looked at two amazing chatbot...
Martin Sullivan
Jun 21, 20234 min read
Post No. 21: Artificial Intelligence
Post No. 21: Artificial Intelligence explores how to use the latest AI and gives examples of responses.
Martin Sullivan
Jun 12, 20234 min read
Post No.20: Gifts from Greeks: Part Four, Martin's Maxims 3
The last post described in more detail three of these maxims (numbers 6, 7 & 9). This post will provide a more in-depth look at the...
Martin Sullivan
Jun 4, 20235 min read
Post No. 19: Gifts from Greeks, Part 3, Martin's Maxims 2
The last post described a synthesis of Greek thought that I named "Martin's Maxims". This post explores some of these maxims in more...
Martin Sullivan
May 5, 20234 min read
Post No. 18: Gifts from Greeks, Part 2: Martin's Maxims
In Part One of this topic, I described my personal re-discovery of ancient Greek thought, and how I was surprised by how many of our...
Martin Sullivan
Apr 14, 20234 min read
Post No. 17: Time
Time is a very strange thing. Although we know it progresses in regular intervals of seconds, minutes and hours, we experience it very...
Martin Sullivan
Mar 28, 20234 min read
Post No. 16: Gifts from Greeks
The study of ancient greek philosophy no longer has the cache' it once had. I must admit I had only a superficial understanding of these...
Martin Sullivan
Mar 12, 20236 min read
Post No. 15: Great Power Relations, Part 3
As described in parts one and two, the historical approach toward great power relations, Realism, has led to wars among powerful nations....
Martin Sullivan
Feb 6, 20236 min read
Post No. 14: Great Power Relations, Part 2
Post No. 14: Great Power Relations, Part 2 As described in Part 1 (Prelude) on this topic, "Realism" is the approach most often taken in...
Martin Sullivan
Jan 29, 20234 min read
Post No. 13: Prelude to Great Power Relations
Post No. 13: Prelude to Great Power Relations. Prelude to the topic of Great Power wars, causes and potential ways forward.
Martin Sullivan
Jan 13, 20234 min read
Post No. 12: The Christmas Season
A poem to start this post: (with a nod to T.S. Elliot) Let us go together, you and I, and listen to a tale of one season. We'll snatch a...
Martin Sullivan
Dec 9, 20222 min read
Post No. 11: The Gordian Knot: Part Two of "A Person or a Self?"
In an earlier post regarding part one of this topic, I suggested that yes indeed we are a person but I would leave open the question of...
Martin Sullivan
Nov 12, 20224 min read
Post No. 10: A Tale of Two Schoolboys, Part Two
In part one of this tale, Vladimir was on top of Volodymyr violently punching him as Volodymyr valiantly fought back. Both of them were...
Martin Sullivan
Oct 30, 20223 min read
Post No. 9: A Tale of Two Schoolboys
Once there was a school boy named Volodymyr. He had a friend with a similar name which was Vladimir. Volodymyr spent a lot of time with...
Martin Sullivan
Oct 23, 20223 min read
Post No. 8: A Person or a Self?
Are you a person or a self? This may sound like an inane question but it actually has interesting implications. My name is Martin. This...
Martin Sullivan
Oct 6, 20222 min read