by Minter Dial | Jan 16, 2024 | Health, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Psychedelics
The power of psychedelics There is a lot of exciting news flowing from various prestigious universities and research centres (such as Imperial College, UCL and King’s College London in the UK, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins in the US), about how...
by Minter Dial | Jan 5, 2024 | Ethics, Genomics, Health, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Psychedelics
Watching time pass by? I don’t know about you, but I inevitably think of time passing when we chime in the New Year. That said, I’m definitely not one who musters up new year’s resolutions. But changing a digit of the year, i.e. when I have to fill...
by Minter Dial | Dec 19, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Collaboration, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Psychedelics, Responsibility
I am frequently invited to discuss and/or debate the potential to humanise artificial intelligence (AI). Will it be possible to imbue AI with human qualities, sufficient to dupe us or equal us? Worse yet, will it supersede us? And judging by the reactions in the...
by Minter Dial | Nov 15, 2023 | Ethics, Health, Meaningfulness, Mental Health, Politics, Social Media
To what extent do you believe you know yourself? How closely do you think your outward-facing image is aligned with who you are down deep inside? From my own observations (starting with myself), being fully aware of who we are is generally an elusive task. As author...
by Minter Dial | May 16, 2023 | Health, Mental Health, Responsibility
In search of meaning There are several thought leaders who I follow, such as John Vervaeke and Jamie Wheal, who’ve also been writing that, as a society, we are experiencing a crisis of meaning. Many people either feel that their life is missing meaningfulness or...
by Minter Dial | May 2, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics, Health, Mental Health, Responsibility
Announcing the release of Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence The second edition of Heartificial Empathy, that was first published in 2018, is about 50% longer than the first edition and roughly 70% modified. This revision was...
