Category: Essays
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Starship Troopers
(This is taken from the author’s presentation for another symposium on the general issue of perception. Various talking points have been merged to create this ad-hoc essay. The stream of consciousness may not be great, but recreating the actual verbal arguments made from the presentation over 3 years ago is impossible anyway.) First published in…
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Augustan Literature
Embodying major ideas such as scepticism upon the monarchy, the pursuit of scientific knowledge through reason, and accepting each person as an individual, the Age of Enlightenment which occupied the better part of the 17th and 18th centuries was a period of intellectual and cultural growth in Europe that gave birth to writers and poets…
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What Is Poetry?
Poetry has been used, recited, written by people for as long as humanity has known itself, and while its technical definition may be that its a form of literary expression characterized by its use of carefully chosen words, structured rhythms, and often, creative and artistic language coupled by reasonably placed successive lines of literature, which…
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The Essay-Language is Style, and Style is Language
This short essay, is all about how essays come to be and their components, mainly that of language and style/decorum.
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Middle Ages, Ideals, Perpetuity of Our Futility
Starting from the historical context after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ending in the ideals of the Middle Ages; this criticism constitutes the personal resentment of its author on mankind’s warped sense of progress.
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Why Help Everyone? (Why Not?)
An essay that leads to the discovery of an innate mechanism; this query, with the utilization of a thought experiment, will aim to draw out the reasoning behind why humans help each other.
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Undermining A Language-II: Internet English
English used today is, something else to say the very least. The interesting decision to generally forego the grammatical notions of a language and abbreviate anything and everything to gain the slightest advantage in typing speed is heavily widespread in nearly all age groups. Also, attention span and reading styles have changed drastically in the…
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A Battle Against ChatGPT
The continuation of a two-part series, this construal focuses on the possibility of sentience in artificial intelligences; if they were let loose.
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A Skirmish Against ChatGPT
The first installment in the series “A Battle Against ChatGPT”, describing the author’s quest to draw out the character of an artificial intelligence.
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Hellenic Period Compared to “Golden” Hellenistic Period: A Short Construal
Comparing the attributes and shared values in Hellenic and Hellenistic Periods, this short construal puts emphasis on the progression of arts, societies, history, wars of conquest and much more to explain why Hellenistic Period is regarded as “golden”.
AULA CONSILIOSUS 