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February 16th - At last, a long ride and a day that felt like spring! This is what my heart has been hoping for.

I sneaked out of work at lunchtime on a sunny, reasonably warm day with not too much wind, called home, then left on a mission: To visit the cake stop at Abbots Bromley for the first time in 2018. And boy, was that pistachio and honey sponge worth the effort!

I delivberately pushed myself as hard as I could - I rode up through Hammerwich, Chorley, Longdon, Handsacre and Blithbury, managing a healthy average of 13.1mph over 16 miles. Not too shabby considering my recent illness. Following cake, I rote up through Abbots Bromley to Hoar Cross, and back through Hadley End, Kings Bromley, Lichfield and Wall. 48 miles in total at 12.5mph.

The day finished quite overcast, but Hoar Cross in the grey evening light with it’s huge clump of snowdrops was still a joy to the heart, as was the endless Trent at Kings Bromley.

Group photo from Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, England

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An Abbot’s Notebook – Catholic Herald

This year, Christmas Midnight Mass will mark exactly 900 years since St Norbert and his first followers made their vows at Midnight Mass in 1121 and so founded the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré.  One question which is often asked about us is “What is your charism?” My novice master would always answer that we were founded before the idea of having “charisms” became fashionable. There is,…

Trans-Intelligence VERSUS Humanity Kurzweil & Harari versus Hawkins & Lanier From Delirium Sapiens To Delirium Deus or vice-versa

https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/trans-intelligence-versus-humanity-94b1167485b

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

 Four names, four men – and no women – but a crucial stake in the heart of our vampiric future history. Ray Kurzweil, the dystopic businessman. Yuval Noah Harari, the self-proclaimed Biblical prophet of the next apocalypse. Jeff Hawkins, the neurobiologist in continuation of Bertrand Russell. Jaron Lanier, the musician turned computer scientist. From the superficiality of transhumanism to the depth of human creativity.

 The choice is yours. Enjoy it.

 But take some fruit juice along in case you might get slightly thirsty for relief and escape. Transhumanism is a dystopia but in no way a curse or our fate. We can control the future.

  Abstract:

The debate about transhumanism is twisted end crooked right now because it states, or it assumes man's intelligence, or man's intellect power will not develop, I mean will not grow, no matter what. Man is inventing machines that are always more powerful and always more "intelligent", and man's intelligence would not be able to follow their own creation and become more intelligent and keep these machines under their control.

 This assumption is absurd and it is nothing but the modern rewriting of the Book of Revelation or the apocalypse seen by various Old Testament visionary minds that some call prophets. Man's intellect has no limits and its development will surprise even the most skeptical people in twenty years.

 Research Interests: 

Archaeology

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Artificial Intelligence

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Anthropology

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Singularity Theory

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Ray Kurzweil

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Jaron Lanier

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Jeff Hawkins

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#MeToo in the Monastery: A Chinese Abbot’s Fall Stirs Questions on Buddhism’s Path

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It was this program of sending clergy abroad that led to Xuecheng’s downfall. Most of those sent overseas were nuns. Like Xuecheng, they had taken a vow of chastity. But unlike other clergy members, who are banned by monastic rules from using cellphones, these nuns were given phones so they could communicate when overseas.

Then half a dozen were summoned to meet Xuecheng for instruction.