AI proponents possessed a seemingly odd predilection to tell stories about times in which no stories are or will be told. Their stories cover a range of time that exceeds that of human experience, beginning with a kind of creation myth about competing songs that are parasitic on the behavior of apes to trajectories of progress in which Man is finally superseded by Machine. AI researchers, funde...

Dissociative Identity Disorder.1The words stung more than I thought they would.Dissociative Disorder.The diagnosis did not come as a surprise. had specifically sought out psychological assessment to evaluate my theory what happened mind fourteen months prior when, while studying for doctorate in clinical psychology, “cracked” under the weight of unresolved trauma and suddenly became person that...

abstracts   a study of richard dawkins’s cumulative argument with emphasis on keith wards’ views ‘abdul rasool kashfi ali reza farrokhi balajaddeh some scholars of natural sciences, including richard dawkins, believe that material world is “self-explanatory” in the process of nature formation and creation of living creatures and that natural selection which is a cumulative process can alone exp...

If you mistake a model car for real car, you're going to have problems. I spent much of my life making that in thinking about atonement. had read “God's justice requires penalty be paid every sin”1 and “to atone is suffer the sins, thereby removing effects sin from repentant sinner allowing him or her reconciled God.”2 was mid-thirties when discovered this penal substitution idea one many diffe...

This article explores theoretical and applied questions that are relevant to social scientists’ efforts to understand and confront sexual stigma. A framework is presented for conceptualizing such stigma as a cultural phenomenon with structural and individual manifestations. The latter include enacted stigma and felt stigma, as well as internalized stigma, which encompasses self-stigma among sex...

2021 is the fiftieth anniversary year for Japanese live-action superhero franchise Kamen Rider. For half a century, heroes bearing name Rider have battled rubber suited monsters and defended smiles of children. Unlike many superheroes, however, Riders are grotesque heroes, usually drawing their powers from same source as villains they battle. Grotesque human-machine-animal hybrids, differ oppon...

Joseph Smith Jr. found himself in court many times throughout his life. Historians argue that problematic relationship with the law began 1826 when he faced disorderly person charges Bainbridge, New York. According to pretrial sources, some of Josiah Stowell's family members charged claimed have supernatural powers: Horace Stowell and Arad used seer stones see lost, stolen, hidden things seek t...

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be,Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, easy tool,Deferential, glad be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full high sentence, but bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—Almost, at Fool.—T. S. Eliot, from “The Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock”I accepted new calling, course...

In 1980, LDS authorities used the term “transsexual” for first time publicly when they prohibited “transsexual operations” in their official General Handbook of Instructions. They made clear that “members who have undergone transsexual operations must be excommunicated” and “after excommunication such a person is not eligible baptism.”1 Such harsh policies were rooted broader ambience strict bo...

I am delighted to have joined IFST as Chief Executive. It is a privilege be joining the Institute at such an exciting time. very grateful Jon Poole who has so kindly helped me in settling into role and wish start by paying tribute him all of his sustained hard work leading growth development organisation. As well my first degree Medicinal Chemistry career voluntary sector organisations, bring e...