A few years ago, we decided to replace a couple of doors inside the house with sliding doors. We consulted someone who had helped us with other remodeling projects, and their response was, “That can’t be done.” As we later discovered, what this person should have said was, “I don’t know how to do it…
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When Reason Sleeps, the Monsters Awaken
Goya: “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos” (Public domain)
There was a time—not so long ago—when every now and then a story would surface that was so unexpected, so distinct from the rest, that it invited the reader to pause, ponder, and perhaps even share it. Today, in an age when…
The abyss between What We Dream to be and What We Show to be
In these times when screens replace reality and social media profiles stand in for our identity—when every action is posted, and every experience is monetized—we slowly lose our connection to who we are and who we long to become.
By anchoring our identity in the number of “likes” we receive…
When Silence Speaks, A New Life Begins
We live in a time when chaos and noise seem to cover every part of our lives — bad news, shallow opinions, constant crises, and rapid, disorienting change. In the middle of this whirlwind, it’s only natural to feel fear, confusion, frustration, or even resistance to anything that hints at "chang…
Interwoven News Stories Reveal New Dimensions of Our Consciousness
In the frenzied, fast-paced rhythm of today’s news cycle—what Walter Ong once described as “pumping data at high speed through information pipelines”—stories overlap and pile up without offering direction or purpose, and often without any meaningful context beyond novelty or entertainment. But t…
The Lack of Good Questions Disconnects Us from the New Future
In a recent interview, Spanish philosopher Juan Carlos Ruiz stated, “Nobody teaches us how to ask questions.” He then expanded on this idea, explaining that we lack a “pedagogy of the question” and, as a consequence, we also lack an ethics of dialogue—a key element for connecting with the emergi…
We Anthropomorphize AI and Robotize Humans
I recently read an article that analyzes two trends: the number of older adults worldwide is increasing, and simultaneously, more and more people of all ages are feeling lonely. The confluence of these two trends means that social isolation among older adults is inevitable, according to a recent…
Forgotten Humanity? AI, Ethics, and the Crisis of Decision
We live in a world of such rapid technological advancement that the landscape of reality around us changes long before we’re able to understand that change or adapt to the new reality. In this context, the challenge arises of analyzing whether new technologies are compatible with our human facul…
A fictitious dialogue about human reality in the age of AI
We don’t know where it happened, and it is not necessary to know it. Perhaps in a place belonging neither to the past nor the future. Perhaps in that timeless space where broken stories come together, not to be fixed, but to be mutually acknowledged.
Four people, each marked by their …
Beyond the Threshold: Rethinking the Universe, Rethinking Ourselves
At the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary philosophy, a new narrative is unfolding—one that redefines our understanding of the universe and of ourselves.
Shelly Palmer’s recent reflections on the rapid advancement of AI-powered humanoid robots invite us to question our…
Living in harmony with our own becoming
Change—whether superficial or a profound transformation—is one of the most perplexing paradoxes of human existence because it means both being and not being at the same time, ceasing to be in order to become, living in the "in-between" of the "no longer" and the "not yet."
We often see wi…
What Can We Do When We Can’t Do Anything?
Over the past few weeks, an increasing number of people have been asking me—more frequently than usual, though not unexpectedly—what we can do in a world and society undergoing such deep, constant, and unconsulted changes that they literally disorient and even paralyze us. And they asked me, as …
Pervasive Deceit: A Paradox of Our Time
Pervasive deceit is nothing new. Forty-five years ago, in 1980, cryptographer Gustavus Simmons introduced the concept to describe scenarios in which secure communication had to be established within a context of intentional, continuous, and widespread deception. In other words, our present reality.
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There is little doubt that our ability to think and communicate is deteriorating
Exactly 170 years ago, American thinker and writer Henry David Thoreau complained about countries that focus on solving pressing problems with no intention of changing the way of thinking that led to the creation and perpetuation of those problems. Thoreau then coined an unpleasant but descriptive e…
The Limits of My Library Are the Limits of My World
Beyond what you know an immense world exists, but you cannot see it.
Throughout history, our understanding of the world has expanded in remarkable ways, but it has always been limited by what we have chosen to explore. Just as libraries house the collected knowledge of humanity, our personal “lib…
The digital tree hides the forest of life and wisdom
In the not-so-distant past, it was said that planting a tree (along with writing a book and having a child) was a clear sign of the stability and maturity of the person who had planted that tree because it indicated a long-term action without expecting anything in return. For this reason, numerous s…
AI continues to expand. But what about our intelligence?
Artificial intelligence can now clone itself, or at least large language models can, according to a recent study from Fudan University in China. Since AI cloning does not require human intervention, researchers say that in a short time and if the cycle is repeated, AI will surpass human intelligence…
We have learned how to navigate without thinking, but we have lost our way
Two and a half millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus stated that “The way up and the way down are one and the same” (Fragment B60). In doing so, he simultaneously spoke of the unity of opposites, cosmic change, and the ascent to wisdom versus the descent into ignorance—for the very sam…
Guardians of Transitions: Janus, Hermes, and Hecate in Times of Change
In ancient times, as in our own times, transitions were of profound significance in both personal and societal life. In fact, transitions were of such importance that in the Greco-Roman pantheon there were three gods, Janus, Hermes, and Hecate, who guarded the transitions.
Each of those tradition…
We surround the planet and ourselves with garbage and debris
Recent studies seem to confirm that the amount of waste orbiting the Earth has reached such a level that this “space debris” is already multiplying due to collisions between these objects, threatening not only satellites and space travel, but even, if the problem worsens, humans could become “trappe…
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