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Monitors for what purpose, Simon?

It’s not a stretch for Christians to say that Jesus was the son of God, Simon, it’s the absolute core basic tenet of their faith. It’s what ‘Christian’ means. It means you believe that Jesus was the Christ who is the son of God.  Literally that.

@simonpaynton There wasn’t any hell until Jesus turned up.

Viruses are like any other life form. All we do is live and reproduce and try to stop ourselves being killed.  Everything else we do is fluff to keep us occupied whilst we live and reproduce and try to stop ourselves being killed.

Its what makes ‘heaven’ so futile.  No death, no reproduction, nothing at all that generates adrenaline. Not sure I…[Read more]

But would the new AI robots be programmed to ‘thrive’?

Avant-garde means something like ‘the cutting edge’. Surely it has to be contextual.  An item cannot be cutting edge in isolation. It has to be compared to similar items in an acknowledged grouping.  Without a perceived edge, it’s a meaningless expression.

I visited the Dali exhibition when it was in Amsterdam. Do I need to say any more?