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Distraction: Out of the silent suburb

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... Is a novel by Andrew Coombs, published by AG Books

If you really cared about children, you’d stop having them. Edward KT Edwardson


To study evolutionary behavioural psychology, the latest developments in neuroscience together with history, is to lose all reason for human propagation.


Further thoughts on AI. Initially, we will worry about jobs while distracted by the new innovations and breakthroughs. Then, very quickly, it won't be just jobs, but the whole meaning and purpose of our existence that is called into question. The psychological impact is enormous.


The corporation or body that controls the advanced AI networks will have access to, not only the compendium of all human knowledge to date, but the intellectual rights to all future human knowledge and creativity, having processed and registered every variation on every theme…


As the human trait to normalise and sublimate extreme situations increases, east and west continue to move closer to the precipice...


A literary thriller set in the early seventies amid an international emergency. Centred on a mismatched love affair, while a reluctant terrorist rescues victims from his own London bombing campaign, a former soldier finds clues that lead him to a missing teenager...


‘The evolutionary stages that led to Homo sapiens are, in part, sequenced in the development of the human embryo – Over a few months the foetus repeats the path our ancestors took over millions of years... ‘Self-important? In the belly, I was once part fish...' Maternity Unit


'In imagining the gods, we are inventing the inexplicable, to explain the unexplainable with the improbable...'


'Grief is the emotion that is uppermost in human existence, and those that would inflict it, predominate...' Tiny Tim


'You are less likely to fear the fall from a hidden cliff edge. Distraction and concealment are the keys to contentment.' Humpty Dumpty


‘We are all female first – the template is woman, the variation is man.’


We are innovating ourselves into irrelevance, and out of existence...


Many thinking people conclude, life is meaningless — probably a terrible accident of evolution. But we instil meaning with our innovation, creativity and fantasies (some abhorrent and stupid, some good). edwardkedwardson.wordpress.com/2023/03/30/fur…


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