The Multidimensional Body
August 13, 2025
The biologist Mae-Wan-Ho, in The Rainbow and the Worm; The Physics of Organisms, wrote that biology has a long tradition of seeing organisms in atomistic
A Way to Overcome Biases in AI and Maintain Our Humanity
November 5, 2024
Salman Khan, in Brave New Words; How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing), looks forward to many ways that AI might
From Information to Joy; Expanding Ideas of the Basis of Knowledge
August 15, 2024
Some technologists say that human cultures are increasingly being uploaded into the digital world, and they justify this claim by stating that the information in
Why AI Doesn’t Reveal the Magic in Thai Temples
June 29, 2024
While artists in Florence developed three-dimensional perspective and France’s King Francois I imported the Italian Renaissance to beef up his image, Thais perfected their own art
Expanding beyond One System of Concepts and One Way of Observing
June 16, 2024
I think this is the most exciting time in history to ask big questions, given the number of cultures and historical periods we can explore.
Ancient Khmer Kings Benchmark AI
February 21, 2024
I recently told ChatGPT, “Describe Preah Ko in 1000 words.” Built 250 years before Angkor Wat, it’s one of the two earliest large temple complexes
Different Ways that Cultures Construct Emotions
January 1, 2024
Emotions can seem self-evident, but they come in a lot of varieties which emerge in cultures. It will be a big challenge for AI to
Will AI Be Able to Capture Different Cultures’ Ways of Perceiving?
December 26, 2023
What seems most basic often isn’t so. It can reflect a complex cultural landscape with roots in remote antiquity. This includes perception. Richard Nisbett
Can AI Understand India’s Spiritual Heritage?
December 17, 2023
I just asked ChatGPT for a 1,000-word essay on the Rigveda and received a predictable answer. It told me when it was probably composed