Psychology – Matthew G McKay Evolving

9 07, 2018

Pleroma’s Void – Chapter 1.1

By Matthew G McKay| 2018-07-10T20:35:31+00:00 July 9th, 2018|Artificial Intelligence, Chapter 1, Christianity, Conscioiusness, Neurology, Pleroma's Void, Psychology, Quantum Physics, Self|2 Comments

Welcome to Pleroma's Void! Welcome to my humble effort to tell the story of Pleroma's Void. It is a story that has been bubbling out of me for at least five years. It is a story I believe must be told. It is a story about us, humanity, or lack thereof. It is a timeless [...]

4 07, 2018

WestWorld and Consciousness

By Matthew G McKay| 2018-07-04T11:59:08+00:00 July 4th, 2018|Artificial Intelligence, Christianity, Conscioiusness, Dualism, Ethics, Evolved, Metaphysics, Neurology, Pleroma's Void, Psychology, Spiritual, Superconscious, Supraconscious|2 Comments

The interpretation of consciousness in WestWorld, like Evolved and my current project Pleroma's Void, asks deep questions about the nature of the mind. What is consciousness? Is it simply a result of all the physical stuff going on in our heads? Or, is there something else, non-physical? These questions drill down into questions like: What [...]

9 03, 2018

Will Human Consciousness Choose to Not Exist?

By Matthew G McKay| 2018-03-11T12:37:56+00:00 March 9th, 2018|Artificial Intelligence, Buddhism, Christianity, Conscioiusness, Dualism, Ethics, Evolved, Judaism, Metaphysics, Monism, Neurology, Psychology, Science, Self, Spiritual, Technology|2 Comments

Twenty years from now your child has an accident, permanently damaging their brain, reducing their life expectancy, and significantly diminishing your family's quality of life. Despite advancements, the medical community cannot fix their native brain. An artificial brain, a quantum machine, has been FDA approved and on the market for five years with about a [...]

26 01, 2018

The Coming Emotional Superconscious

By Matthew G McKay| 2018-01-26T14:10:17+00:00 January 26th, 2018|Artificial Intelligence, Buddhism, Christianity, Conscioiusness, Metaphysics, Neurology, Psychology, Science, Self, Superconscious|0 Comments

How Emotions Are Made Is an emotional superconscious in our future? A networking of our brains through artificial intelligence? If so, what does it mean for our us, as individuals and as a society and culture? To help guide me on this quest, I read How Emotions Are Made by Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, a University [...]

14 01, 2018

Spiritual Consciousness – Supraconscious

By Matthew G McKay| 2018-01-14T14:15:06+00:00 January 14th, 2018|Christianity, Conscioiusness, Evolved, Metaphysics, Neurology, Psychology, Spiritual, Supraconscious|1 Comment

Science recognizes the limitations of our consciousness to perceive our world. Our mind filters out "noise," categorizes to aid in recognition, predicts to save energy, and misses objects in front of us. Furthermore, our minds are filled with biases based on our past experiences. Scientists have strong evidence of our faulty perception. Spiritual consciousness attempts [...]