For anyone interested in action, there's a KDRAMA called, Are you Human Too? About a robot who was cloned after a young man in a coma and assumes his life so that the young man does not lose his place in his grandfather's company. The young man is a chaebol (a Korean blue-blood). This show is so well done. Watch in Korean with subtitles or it will be a poor experience. This one is fun, but also has its share of drama. There are so many fun themes in Kdramas. There's one show where a woman turns into a dog after midnight due to a curse. The curse is activated when she has her first kiss. American movies and TV shows are not this creative anymore.
Here's the plot to Are You Human Too?
Nam Shin (Seo Kang Joon) is poised to be the heir to the lucrative family-run PK business group… until a shocking and brutal assault leaves him badly injured and comatose. His mother Oh Laura (Kim Sung Ryung), one of South Korea’s top robotics and AI scientists, decides to act to ensure Nam Shin’s medical condition doesn’t jeopardize his chances of taking over PK. She secretly releases Nam Shin III, an android copy of her son, to stand in for Nam Shin, and hires Kang So Bong (Gong Seung Yeon), a former female MMA fighter, as the android’s bodyguard. But schemes are afoot, as unscrupulous individuals try to oust Nam Shin. And things get even messier when So Bong starts to fall for Nam Shin III. Is an unconventional romance in the cards? And can So Bong protect Nam Shin – and Nam Shin III – from harm? This 2018 South Korean drama was directed by Cha Young Hoon.
https://www.viki.com/tv/35432c-are-you-human-too#about
I'm going to share some of my favorite K-Dramas. You can watch for free on Viki, it's a great streaming platform that you can watch from your computer, TV, or phone. It's where you can basically watch any Japanese, Korean, or TV show from China. It's extremely popular with viewers. IMPORTANT: Never watch KDramas in dubbed English. You will not enjoy the program. One of the appeals of Kdramas is hearing the actors in their natural language and watching and their tones with subtitles. The English dubs are so bad you'll never watch again. One of my favorite shows is Because This is My First Life. Here is the plot:
Nam Sae Hee (Lee Min Ki), a socially awkward IT employee in his early 30s, has exhausted his savings buying a house, leaving him financially strained. Yoon Ji Ho (Jung So Min), a struggling writer in her 30s, finds herself homeless and struggling to make ends meet. When Ji Ho becomes a tenant in Sae Hee's house, their unexpected living arrangement sets the stage for a unique relationship. As they navigate their personal, familial, and financial challenges together, they begin to discover unexpected connections and support in each other's lives. Their journey raises questions about love, survival, and personal growth in difficult economic circumstances. This is a 2017 South Korean drama series directed by Park Joon Hwa.
https://www.viki.com/tv/35630c-because-this-is-my-first-life?utm_source=global_search_or_media_action&utm_campaign=35630c#about
I'm not watching as many new movies. Is Hollywood making bad movies? I'm Not interested in anything they make.
Alex Morton Okay ... you sold me with Buddy Guy!
Frank Hutton It's a great coda and he delivers the line that nails the whole thing to the wall. Anyway, there're good reasons why Sinners has more Oscar noms than any movie ever. Won't win most of them I suppose, but still. Absolutely brilliant. And an abject example of how genre can be used to successfully deliver intellectual content that in a 'regular' movie would be rejected.
Frank Hutton I'm embarrassed. It's (of course) a Ryan Coogler film, starring Michael B. Jordan. As twin brothers Smoke & Stack, no less. My neuro divergent fingers apologise.
Alex Morton The word vampire n a description always puts me off. But, I will put that aside, based on your enthusiasm, and find a copy to view.
Frank Hutton Cool. After you do, tell me what sociopolitical group you think the vamps represent. They've musical signifiers, but I'm not sure it's that easy.
AI has been given its own social media where AI can chat with AI, and humans cannot register or communicate, they can only watch. This reminds me of Dead Internet Theory, which is a theory that most of the "people" posting online are actually bots. I know this to be somewhat true during certain periods. But it is largely the reason why I dont interact with strangers online. People who argue and make rage-bait comments aren't actually people, they're bots. Here is the AI social media. I observed it for a few minutes. Interesting. Not sure what I think of it.
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Check out my friend Julie R. Young's movie, which is streaming on Tubi. It's also available on other streaming networks like Hoopla and Amazon Prime. It's a Christmas musical set during the Civil War. Julie was the screenwriter. I will watch again during the holidays. If you do watch it, be sure to review the movie on IMDB.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27757565/
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YOUNG Julie Thanks for the plug!
E. Writer Any time! Much deserved
Did you know that without philosophy, modern computer programming would not exist? Computer programming language is based on rules created by philosophers dating as far back as the late 1800s (even further than that if you count 17th century's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, only his influence in mathematical logic did not arrive until 1903). But philosophy's role in concepts that led to computer technology goes back even further than that, the rules have its origins dating back to ancient Greece, to the philosopher Pythagoras (circa 570–490 BCE). Pythagoras believed that all things are numbers. Here's how philosophy, math, and computer science is intimately connected, with the latter two subjects evolving from philosophy. Let's follow an abbreviated timeline...
170 years after Pythagoras, Aristotle used what he would call syllogisms, which was logic-based sentence structures used to determine whether a statement was true or false. In philosophy, logic (formal logic) focuses on structure rather than the substance of an argument.
In the late 1800s however, philosophy shifted from the use of syllogisms to mathematical algebra-based language driven by philosophers like George Boole. In other words, sentence logic shifted to mathematical logic and equations. Boole believed that formal logic in philosophy was a branch of mathematics and could be used to solve logical arguments and problems. Boolean logic uses two values: True = 1 or False = 0 (think data in bits of 1s and 0s). This is Boolean math. Boolean expressions were later used in computer programming language. There are other expressions and operations used in modern Boolean logic, but I won't list them all. Boolean operations would also include AND, OR, or NOT in the list expressions. This is an example of how the origins of philosophy led to computer programming. Other philosophers like Gottlob Frege, Bertrand, Russell Lewis Carroll, Alfred North Whitehead, and Giuseppe Peano, among others, were significant contributors who led the logicism and mathematic logic movement that led to its use in computer programming. This group would later include Alan Turing, the father of computer science who would eventually study mathematical logic under Max Newman at Cambridge in the 1930s (studying lectures from Gödel’s incompleteness theorems). Newman introduced Turing to mathematical logic which of course, is a branch of philosophy's formal logic. After Newman's lectures, Turing developed the "Turing Machine," which eventually led to modern computers. This is the shorthand version of these events, the edge of the rabbit hole for you to follow and learn more. Keep your 3rd eye open...👁
Alex Morton
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E. Writer Wow, I will hae to do some research on this. Very interesting!
YOUNG Julie Do you ever think we are moving backwards, instead of forwards?
Alex Morton I remember seeing the Antikythera computer at the National Archaelogical Museum in Athens and puzzling over it. That was before the recreation of it and today's understanding of its purpose.
Alex Morton Julie, I certainly think that over the past couple of years we're seeing things going backwards, sociologically, in the US. With the reduction in science and medical grants, we're now seeing the slippage in those arenas, as well. I would never have imagined that there is an attitude to believe what you are told instead of what you actually see.
I just discovered a sound button. It's a little bell on the right side of the screen under the menu.
E. Writer How odd. Are you on an apple computer?
Alex Morton Nope. Microsoft Surface PC, running Windows 11. Very vanilla.
E. Writer Im so curious about how your layout looks. And how it became different. I wonder if other people's set ups are the same?
Alex Morton I tried to do a screen capture and paste it into a reply, but that doesn't work. How can I do it?
E. Writer I take the screenshot, paste it in a photo editing program and save it. But you can paste it into an e mail to me. I'll paste it here for you.
A few days ago I made the post below on Facebook. It now has 400+ likes and about 49 shares because people realize there are things happening beyond what they are able to perceive. They want to know because they innately feel a shift in the air. Here is the post:
Did you know that scientists can run computer processes and computations using living brain neurons from animals and humans? It's called wetware and it has been around and researched by scientists for decades. In recent years, scientists have been able to run real computer computations using living neurons. These are the same types of neurons in the human body that are responsible for carrying sensory data in the form of electrochemical signals from the central nervous system to the brain where the information is processed and synthesized into thought.
In wetware, the neurons are placed on microchips where they are held in place by microscopic wires. Generative AI uses ANNs, which is an "artificial neural network," that is modeled after the human central nervous system. In AI technology, a numerical value is transferred from node to node that assigns a weight to input or output. If the data has a weight of .95 vs .5 it will choose .95 (95% likely) that it has correctly identified the data it needs to move forward.
Did you know that the human body generates 80 to 100 watts of energy? If you can run computer computations using human neurons *(because it is more energy efficient than the water evaporating servers that run AI) and also utilize energy produced by the human body, how long until humanity becomes an energy-efficient natural resource? Or used as an energy-efficient resource to power a simulated reality?
Those possibilities are always abound and sounds like something right out of The Matrix, especially given the rise of agentic AI. I address these subjects in my books, Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind and the Nature of Reality (2024) and... The Absence of Reality: Aphorisms and Observations on the Nature of Reality and Existence (2025), as a starting point to explore the path we are headed towards (biocomputing) in technology and the implications for humankind.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1961823284
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1961823241
This is one of my authors. He has a long and established history as a French surrealist poet. We're also good friends and I sometimes we are on the phone for over an hour when we talk. The image to the link did not auto-populate but if you click the link you can see the person and learn about his history in poetry https://share.google/EjQ9YpmmW1gIHwCtA
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