Ethical dilemmas in the development of Artificial Intelligence to replace human agents — (Initially submitted for the International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology Conference 2021) What is Ethical? The notion of ethics deals with critical questions of what is right or wrong and what is good or bad. The majority of philosophy is about the determination of the correct response to this simple question. Different schools of…

Stories are important for the survival of our species as they help us find meaning in life and help us find a way to organize for shared objectives. Harari in his book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” explains how stories have given us an advantage over other species in…

Is Spiritual entrepreneurship same as social entrepreneurship? — Spirituality is a notion with a vast spectrum of definitions that is claimed by many different schools of thought and religions. The meaning which is intended here is the quality of a person with deep recognition of meaning and value in the existence. The meaningfulness of existence can be as…

Development of science and technologies are anticipated to lead to the emergence of artificial cognition and robots with technical and cognitive capabilities of human beings. Future workforces shall be able to compute faster, work without emotional dependencies and with no physical fatigue. Also, human beings may be able to upgrade…

Learn to Live in the Moment — One of the most awkward things about human beings is that despite the common belief, there is no permanent unchanging unified one true self inside us. I borrow this from Yuval Noah Harari in his book, Homo Deus, in which he explains the experiments done on people whose left and…

Growth is one of the internal rewards of any entrepreneur. When you see the growth, both quantitative and qualitative growth, you experience the joy you have expected. However, growth happens through the passage of time and it may take longer than expected. …

Is “human rights” the serious agenda of the United Nations? — Human rights as well as other achievements of humanism in the modern era, have been claimed to be accepted globally but the fact is they are not practiced. Eric Posner in his article with the title of “The case against human rights” posted in Guardian on December 2014, discusses if…

Is what you do your identity too? — As a middle-aged person with concerns for determining the meaning of my life, I look for others’ viewpoints on this topic. I am interested to know how others perceive the value of their existence and how they give meaning to their lives. Religious beliefs and mono-aesthetic ideologies define the identity…

How does business give meaning to our lives? —