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Incompleteness Theorem: Why AI Will Never Be Conscious

Take heart, sentient beings, you have something no artificial entity will ever have: Awareness, the ability to sense being, feel and…

10 min readJan 11, 2023

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The Ethical Atrocities of Making AI Consciousness

Humans are good at doing things they should probably never do and “sort of” dealing with the consequences later—if they can.

11 min readMay 7, 2023

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The Big Bang THEORY Has Major Issues!

Many act as though the Big Bang is settled science. Reality check!

5 min readOct 14, 2022

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Wealth and the End of Money

Are we headed for Utopia or Dystopia?

12 min readMar 4, 2023

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State of the World Report 2024

A timely accounting of the various problems threatening the future.

15 min read6 days ago

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Memetic Evolution Is Rapid and Should Be More In Our Control

Survival of the fittest applies to ideas too and our ideas may be killing us unless we come up with some better ideas soon.

8 min readMar 8, 2024

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Memetic Evolution Is Rapid and Should Be More In Our Control

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The Paradise Principle: An Easy Way to Improve Business

My experience led me to see business as an opportunity to bring a little slice of paradise to the world. I wish more would do this.

8 min readMar 3, 2024

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Fix These Glaring Bugs In American Government

Our Government Operating System is getting buggier by the year. Time for an upgrade!

9 min readMar 2, 2024

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The Fallacy of Human-Controlled Ensoulment

We control parenthood, but we don’t control souls.

6 min readFeb 22, 2024

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The Endless, Ever-Increasing Compromises of Ethics for Ever-More Business Profits

How far businesses will go to boost the bottom line? We need to set some more serious limits before it’s too late.

13 min readFeb 15, 2024

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Peter McClard

Peter McClard

As a creative type, entrepreneur and philosopher, I write on many topics and try to offer solutions to, or useful insights into common problems.

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