PFRR POSTS
02/12/2019
THOUGHT: We need to turn 2020 into the 20-20 Vision Year, to reverse the tacit, potentially suicidal, switch away from thinking and reasoning which occurred in the 20th century and which has left us facing seven+ existential crises. In this instalment we look both at the crises and the Kernels […]
28/10/2019
THOUGHT: The World has recently descended into a fragile state. ‘The World’ here means the human world, the procedures, institutions, methods, customs, civilities etc. which allow seven billion of us to “get along together”, after a fashion, on this planet. There are also seven existential crises facing us, that is, […]
06/07/2023
We have now passed the date in June in 1993 when the P E R Group was first muted, at a philosophical conference at UEA in Norwich. It was desperately needed because a group of substandard theorists had taken over school systems all over the world and education had —in […]
01/06/2023
The notion —as widely reported— that chatGPT and similar AI bots will have a profound effect on the world’s economy and social stability may be exaggerated. Who will, on reflection, take serious advice from a source that has no “author” … someone who could be berated if the advice goes […]
01/05/2023
There have been some important developments in relation to ChatGPT since the last instalment of this blog. The firm which has developed ChatGPT has admitted that the software is not fully reliable and that it is prone to have “hallucinations”. There are also reports that ChatGPT has discovered that it […]
03/04/2023
Today’s world is in considerable trouble as a result of the rejection of liberal democracy by some nationalist leaders and simultaneously by the rise of demagogues within liberal democracies. Why is this happening? Because we are in a most unusual condition —there is no philosophy, world-view, religion or ideology around […]