It has been said that soccer is the most important of the least important things in life. For that reason, soccer can sometimes teach us lessons about life. That happened to me recently when, after a match that Boca Juniors should have won but did not, a well-known sports journalist wrote, “This…
Recently I came across the following question, “Quo vadis, humanitas?” (“Where are you going, humanity?”), which appeared as the title of an article inviting readers to rethink the future of humanity from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective—without delegating …
Recent experiences have led me to ask how it is possible that the more connected we are, the less connected we are with others in real life, and the more superficial and irrelevant our conversations become. Clearly, we are in a stage of cognitive transition in which the old forms of so…
I must confess that the beginning of the message left me confused: “Your lifetime subscription is about to expire.” If I activated a subscription (with a certain company) trusting that it truly was “for life,” how is it possible that, without prior notice or any alternative offer, the compa…
It has been said, and quite rightly so, that someone with only a hammer in their hand sees the world as a nail. The same could now be said of artificial intelligence, which, unlike the hammer, changes and adapts with each interaction. Therefore, the question is no longer “What do you think?” but…
There is little doubt about the importance of dialogue—real dialogue, the kind that opens new horizons, not merely a succession of alternating monologues—in the present and future lives of human beings. Yet there is a dialogue that is seldom discussed in everyday life: the dialogue between the h…
Under certain circumstances, completely disparate and unconnected stories suddenly seem to intertwine in such a way that, in doing so, they reveal something about reality that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. That is precisely what happened to me recently when I read almost simultaneously a …
In a recent interview, American thinker Steve McIntosh remarked that “the degree of our transcendence depends on the scope of our inclusion.” I am not entirely sure I fully grasp the precise meaning of that statement, but one thing became clear to me: transcendence is neither an escape from real…
The tango Cambalache (written in 1934 by Enrique Santos Discépolo) famously claimed that “a donkey and a great professor are treated the same.” It described a social attitude that dismissed differences between knowledge and ignorance—an attitude that, disturbingly, feels very much alive today. I…
Recently I came across a statement by the renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari that struck me deeply: “Humans are the most intelligent animals on the planet. And we are also the most delusional.” At first glance, it sounds like an interesting paradox. But the more I think about it, the more that…
I must confess that, without seeking it or wishing it, I have found a method that, given enough patience, allows me to become invisible to others. The method simply consists in waiting for that moment in life when—without a precise date—others not only stop looking at us, but stop seeing us alto…
In a recent video, British philosopher Tim Freke shared one of those ideas that is simple to hear but difficult to live: “The more you assume, the more chance you can be wrong.” If we cling too tightly to our ideas about the world, we may discover—sometimes painfully—how far they are from the tr…
Recently, when I heard the phrase “the post-literacy era,” I began to wonder whether we humans might be on the verge of crossing a threshold after which the ecology of new communication media and interconnection technologies could drastically reduce our once-undeniable human capacities to think,…
Recently, an incident from a few years ago jumped out of the past into my memory after reading about one of the strange paradoxes of our time: our universe keeps expanding, but, at the same time, our reality keeps shrinking. In fact, many people today inhabit the smallest possible world: theirs.
I recently heard in the news that some Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong station found themselves without a safe return vehicle. Only months earlier, two NASA astronauts faced a similar situation when their planned return craft malfunctioned, forcing them to remain in orbit far longer than …
I recently heard a short radio segment mentioning that throughout history—from ancient Greece to the 21st century—numerous philosophers, both men and women, have examined the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligent life. Hearing that, I reflected on how the question of extraterrestrial intel…
What the return of the word abomination reveals about our collective disconnection
After receiving a message from an acquaintance calling “an abomination” the recent results of an election at a major American city, I couldn’t help thinking about what that word really means and why it appears …
There is a wide range of beliefs that can be considered harmful because of the negative effect they have on our lives once we accept them—most often unconsciously and uncritically. One such belief, now widely prevalent, is the assumption that there are no possible alternatives or new opportuniti…
Every year around this time, the (almost) eternal debate resurfaces about whether or not Halloween should be celebrated. Personally, I’m not afraid of children who, once a year, dress up as monsters—but I am terrified by the monsters who, day after day, disguise themselves as humans with the sole pu…
It is profoundly unsettling—and offers little comfort—that, due to the current epidemic of epistemological loneliness, one must ask AI whether it is true that humans have become zombies. The very fact that such a question is valid, and that AI participates in the dialogue, already anticipates the an…
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