Robots and Emotions This article is in the Aliens category and was published or updated on 25 August 2008 There is a recurring theme in science fiction in which a robot of advanced design, centuries ahead of where we are now, is so good that it desires to become human and I have seen at least two films with this theme in recent years, one was last night, "AI Artificial Intelligence" made in 2001 and featuring a little boy robot that spends the film looking for the blue fairy so that, just like Pinnochio, she could make him human.....(more)
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The idea of hostile aliens This article is in the Aliens category and was published or updated on 15 May 2010 I tried to deal with this important issue in my (now deleted) article "Steven Greer Interview" but I failed, in my own estimation, to deal with the question adequately and so I removed the article content and so now I want to come at this question from a more objective viewpoint. It is written in the knowledge that there are two distinct viewpoints and attitudes among intelligent people regarding the aliens which boil down to ....(more)