Author Archives: vrba1983

I still don’t have time to say very much here.  Much less time to get a chatbot to say it for me.  Although I do admire their gift of concision and elegance of verbiage; it’s curious just how apposite phrases … Continue reading →

You know, it really shouldn’t be beyond the bounds of possibility to write a chatbot that would do this.  I agreed to post occasionally as part of this project, but it’s been a busy month, and so often I don’t … Continue reading →

One thing I could have been more positive about in the whole idea of not being physically extant was the implications for job applications.  Academics spend almost their whole working lives begging for money – I’ve been doing so all … Continue reading →

I end up with a different perspective on that whole thing about ‘what if you weren’t bound to a corporeal form – what if your intellectual essence could live for ever in some kind of host?’  I work with neuroscientists … Continue reading →

That last post got me thinking.  As an undergraduate I lived in the same city I do now, and had that kind of experience: no TV, and wholly immersed in a world of books, mostly highish culture, and a neighbourly social environment.  Used … Continue reading →

It’s all go.  Unfortunately, by my standards, that means two things: (i) much activity that would be too dull and parochial to be worth writing about, and (ii) no time to think about anything else.  But if I were, I’d … Continue reading →