Thinking Outside of Our Heads
by James Wallace Harris I believe recent developments in artificial intelligence prove that many of the creative processes we thought came from conscious actions come from unconscious mechanisms in...
View ArticleHow Addicted Are You To The Internet?
by James Wallace Harris, 7/31/23 Our internet went down Saturday, and a technician won’t come to fix it until Thursday. Living without the internet shows me just how addicted I am to the online world....
View ArticleReplacing Classic Novels
by James Wallace Harris, 8/12/13 Most bookworms just want to be entertained. They know their tastes are so individualistic that no friend or authority can predict what they will like. However,...
View ArticleHitting a Cognitive Barrier
by James W. Harris, 9/24/23 I crashed into a cognitive barrier trying to write my reactions to The Trouble with Harry and To Catch a Thief, two Alfred Hitchcock movies from 1955. After two drafts I...
View ArticleHave You Ever Wanted to Paint?
by James Wallace Harris, 9/27/23 I spend my days grazing on ideas. I listen to music, watch television or movies, read books, articles, or short stories, look at art books, browse the internet, read...
View ArticleLooking Back at My First 10 Years of Retirement
by James Wallace Harris, 10/15/23 Friday was my 10th anniversary of retiring. I started work at Memphis State University in 1977 and retired from The University of Memphis in 2013. I hadn’t moved,...
View ArticleIs Ethical Capitalism Even Possible?
by James Wallace Harris, 10/20/23 This month, several of my friends have separately expressed doubt about the future. I don’t hold much hope either. Our current world civilization seems to be falling...
View ArticleEthical vs. Virtuous
by James Wallace Harris, 10/23/23 I try to be an ethical person but I’m not a particularly virtuous person. Some might define both terms, “ethical person” and “virtuous person,” as a good person. I’m...
View ArticleI’m Too Dumb to Use Artificial Intelligence
by James Wallace Harris, 1/19/24 I haven’t done any programming since I retired. Before I retired, I assumed I’d do programming for fun, but I never found a reason to write a program over the last ten...
View ArticleChatGPT Isn’t an Artificial Intelligence (AI) But an Artificial...
by James Wallace Harris, 2/12/24 This essay is for anyone who wants to understand themselves and how creativity works. What I’m about to say will make more sense if you’ve played with ChatGPT or have...
View ArticleA Painful Challenge to My Ego
James Wallace Harris, 2/26/24 I’m hitting a new cognitive barrier that stops me cold. It’s making me doubt myself. I’ve been watching several YouTubers report on the latest news in artificial...
View ArticleWill People Change vs. Can People Change?
by James Wallace Harris, 2/28/24 I just finished listening to The Deluge by Stephen Markley, a book that speculates on what the next sixteen years could be like. The book is almost nine hundred pages...
View ArticleI Gleaned Two Useful Bits of Wisdom from YouTube This Morning
by James Wallace Harris, 3/18/24 The first insight applies to internet addiction. I constantly check several apps on my iPhone all day, and regularly browse YouTube on my television. It’s gotten to be...
View ArticleHow To End Identity Theft
by James Wallace Harris, 3/31/24 The reason we have identity theft is it’s easy to pretend to be someone else with just a credit card number, a password, and a bit of trickery. Because we no longer...
View ArticleWe’re Never Going to Change
by James Wallace Harris, 4/15/24 Years ago, I read This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein. It was a passionate plea to act on climate change because if we didn’t everything would change. Her new book,...
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