Galileo’s and Descartes’ laws of motion, Newton’s law of gravity, Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism, Mendel’s laws of genetics, the laws of thermodynamics, the laws of reflection and refraction of light …
Big Bang: the farewell of a theory; (how sacred is science?)
The Big Bang theory will soon close a century of life – perhaps its obituary will coincide with the moment it retires into the history of human scientific conceptions. Its …
the great leap: immunity as capital, morbidity as investment
The term “natural capital” was first used in 1973 by E.F. Schumacher in his book “Small Is Beautiful” and was further developed by Herman Daly, Robert Costanza and other founders …
do machines feel remorse?
In the 1990s, shortly after the successful cloning of the famous (or infamous) Dolly, one of the dominant themes of the discussions of the time regarding new technologies was that …
a discussion about artificial intelligence (somewhere far away…)
The following text is a transcript of a discussion that took place between certain academics in a distant country, prompted by the emergence of ChatGPT a few months ago. First …
Technological metaphysics (a note on “artificial intelligence”)
The ChatGPT app gained 100,000,000 (100 million) active users in just two months from its release: it is a world record for the speed at which a technological application has …
GATTACA remains relevant 25 years later
Twenty-five years have passed since the release of the film GATTACA, a film that tells the story of a possible near future in which social inequalities, which were previously associated …
the flesh machine
Eugenics aims to use science to improve the human race across generations by changing the composition of human populations – this is achieved by promoting the reproduction of certain kinds …
“artificial intelligence”: large language models in the age of “intellectual” enclosures
They can write poems and stories on their own, they can converse with a person with impressive naturalness, they have a particular knack for writing college assignments on behalf of …
For an anti-history of genetics
Introduction How well does a physicist really know nature and its secrets? To what depth has a biologist understood the phenomena of life and the intricate pathways it follows? Naive …
The prophetic capitalism!
The famous Mr. Gates, considered the “most powerful doctor in the world,” we never regarded as anything more than a “press spokesperson” for general capital, especially for companies related to …
Booster yourself!
The idea of the body (more precisely: of the immune system – at this stage) as a battery is a disgustingly silly and technocratic idea; however, precisely for this reason …