Nowadays, people respond to the question of the nature of consciousness and the factor of artificial intelligence in the same way that previous generations responded to the question of the nature of the origin of life on Earth and life outside the Earth at the beginning of the 20th century. Winston Churchill's essay " Are There Men on the Moon?

This is a journalistic text, not an academic one. The distinction is significant: the academic regime requires legitimation through the chain of signifiers of the discipline—quotations, footnotes, overview of positions, methodology. The theme of this text—the biomechanical substrate that precedes any signifier—structurally does not withstand academic formulation.

That night, Tenochtitlan smelled not of lake water but of copal smoke. He smelled of sweat, fumes and the greed of the white Teule gods. The captive Tlatoani Montezuma II lay on a mat in the chambers of the palace of Axayacatl. Behind the stone walls, Spanish armor rang dully - this sound reminded the leader of the rustle of dry snake skins.

The history of health has had many errors (humoral theory, miasmic theory, bloodletting, lobotomy, phrenology) and many obstacles (epidemics, anti-vaccination, anti-psychiatry, the Great Leap Forward).

On the night of September 3, 1658, as the wind howled outside, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, knew he was finally dying. Not the way he had died hundreds of times before in his hypochondriacal panics - with a pounding heart and icy sweat, confident that God had already stretched out his hand over him - but for real. Renal colic twisted his body into the fetal position.