Gary C. Gibson - Essays

This new and expanded version of my philosophical novel was published today at Amazon. https://a.co/d/35T7TV5 Laura Thought of Infinite Bein...

Not a fan of Sagan. His atheist outlook was very unscientific and unphilosophical, and that was too bad for he was a decent scientist. Scien...

I read sf in the 70's-usually stuff-Herbert, Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov etc as well as philosophy, science and history that i continued al...

 The etymology of concept is from conceive. It is to put an idea into a mind. Sentient species might create similar ideas without the idea e...

 Should one start a science fiction story with a battle? I read an action novel that started with a brilliant, intensely detailed battle. Th...

  Building non rectilinear structures escalates the cost orders of magnitude. Until recently the math would have been a lot more difficult. ...

The N.A.T.O. treaty the US is signed into should not obligate the. U.S.A. to join into wars and military conflicts started by N.A.T.O. membe...

Pragmatism is selecting something that works and/or is necessary. People can make bad choices though. Some don’t know what pragmatism is. An...

I believe the simple explanation for Godel's incompleteness theorems is that there cannot be a set of all sets including itself, with th...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilian targets. Truman had different courses to take yet he was a Democrat. Perhaps he could have nuked just o...

Nuclear weapons are an existential threat. Presidents are not welcome to egress toward the direction of nuclear war. It's just bad polic...

 Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown books presented a simple anthropology of language development. It was a somewhat more pragmatic approach ...

  Because there is no foreseeable technology to travel faster than light between star systems it is worth considering the fastest way to pow...

 I was considering what the world would have been like if I knew the future a half century ago. That is, if I knew then what I know now. Sin...

  When I learned that the Biden-Starmer-Harris crew were considering giving permission to Ukraine to attack Russia with N.A.T.O. long range ...

 Was village life the compassionate conservative Utopia it is sometimes held by liberals to be? Villages did have muddy streets with Neo-fer...

  Democrats are the party of accusations, lies and deceits. After they started the civil war to keep their tradition of slavery alive and lo...

  Science fiction writers like to fold space for faster than light space travel. Maybe Frank Herbert in Dune was the first to use the concep...

 Laura said; “Yes, I want confirmation. That extrusion of new space is at the edge of the Ludwig Von Trump galaxy forty million light years ...

  Arresting and correcting global warming is a huge, challenging task possible too great for a nation of suers rather than doers to get done...