Böcker av Alan Sewell

Is generative AI really "approaching human levels of intelligence?" Did a computer program really tell somebody they should dump their partner so they can marry electrical pulses plying their way through silicon? Are these programs really collaborating to create their own secret language in a conspiracy to overthrow humanity? Or are these claims intentional misrepresentations of truth purposed to deceive the public into accepting government control of AI in collusion with a cartel of corporations? Or is it just an honest difference of perspective? This book explores the questions of whether artificial intelligence duplicates the functions of our minds, or only certain narrow sub-sentient aspects of our brains. And whether AI will replace humans in the many realms our intelligence enables.

What if pro-slavery Democrats kept their party united and won the election of 1860? What if Jefferson Davis became President of a pro-slavery Union, while Abraham Lincoln must decide whether to fight for a new birth of freedom outside it? In this alternate history, there will be no secession of the South. But what about the anti-slavery men in the North? Will the United States, now styled "The Confederate Union," still be their country? "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better-- This is a most valuable, -- a most sacred right -- a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world." - Abraham Lincoln "It needs the united power, harmonious action and concentrated will of the people of all these States to roll the wheel of progress to the end which our fathers contemplated, and which their sons, if they are wise and true, may behold. This great country will remain united." - Jefferson Davis

This book seeks to provide lay readers the "Eureka!" moment of understanding Relativity without inducing headaches in comprehending the math. It is written for those who have studied it, wondered about it, and still lack an intuitive understanding of it. As well as science, it seeks to open a window into the intellectual spirit of Relativity that animated the minds of its discoverers, including Einstein, Poincare, Minkowski, and Lorentz.

Abraham Lincoln began the morning of August 23, 1864 by despairing of re-election: "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect (George McClellan, running on the Peace Platform), as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards." The Union was losing as many as 15,000 men killed, crippled, and dead from disease per week. Men up to the age of 45 were being conscripted to fill the gaping holes. Many deserted or surrendered at the first opportunity. Officers who had turned Lee back at Gettysburg last year had been killed or discharged with wounds. Incompetents and drunkards took their places. Grant's army was suffering staggering defeats at battles it would have won in previous years. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army was not only holding fast in Virginia, but had recently raided the outskirts of Washington, taking Mr. Lincoln under fire. On August 23rd bad news poured in from all fronts. Lincoln's friends warned him he would not be re-elected. George McClellan, a pre-war protege of Jefferson Davis, would be the next president. During the course of the day, Mr. Lincoln made a series of decisions that swung the balance back in his favor and enabled him to prevail in November's election, thus seeing the war through to Union victory. This is the story of that day.

It's been a century since quantum mechanics and Einstein's Theory of Relativity were conceptualized. Some aspects of Q.M and Relativity still haven't been well considered or well presented to the public. We're about due for another revolutionary advance in our understanding of these theories that describe the foundations of the Universe. We're hearing about quantum computing, quantum memory, quantum multiple realities, and other emergent topics of quantum theory. The public, as well as scientists, would do well to glean a heads-up understanding on these concepts now, before the next dam bursts. This book explains the fundamentals of quantum mechanics 101 to a popular audience in an interesting way. It explores the history and philosophy of quantum mechanics, going back to the original "dual nature" experiment in the early 1800's. It explains in popular terms the great debates between Albert Einstein, who was skeptical of quantum theories, and Q.M.'s founders, like Niels Bohr. These debates go to the core of the realities we experience. We'll begin our exploration of quantum mechanics by wrapping it around a science fiction experiment that purports to prove or disprove quantum immortality, i.e. the permanent retention of the information we acquire in life.

Desire for liberty at home and fair trade with other nations induced Americans to leave the British Empire in 1776. Now we have another American uprising against globalist empires. This time the British joined us in declaring their independence as a sovereign nation by breaking their ties to the European Union. They saw the danger that their prescient author George Orwell warned us about in 1948: Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats, and soldiers, lumped together...under the name of "managers." These people will eliminate the old capitalist class, crush the working class, and so organize society that all power and economic privilege remain in their own hands. Let us restore the United States to our original destiny as the light that leads the world toward liberty and prosperity. We must not allow our Globalist elitists to diminish us to serve their ends.