The Difficulty of Modeling the Brain with Artificial Neurons
“The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.”Isaac Asimov If someone asks…
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America’s Potential for Peace
On the evening of September 11, 2010, nine Christian women gathered in a prayer circle in the basement…
Bringing the Soul Back In: A Spiritual Conception of Human Nature for the Social Sciences
The development of the modern social sciences has been intimately bound up with the Enlightenment belief that scientific…
The Sun: The Source We Cannot Utilize
The sun gives out about 1.17×1031 kJ (kilojoule) energy every year. Only one and half trillionth of this…
Super Computer in a Cell
Since the first electronic computer ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was announced in 1946, computers have changed…
Coping with Life’s Problems: Western and Islamic Perspectives
God burdens no soul except within its capacity… (Al-Baqarah, 2:286) This verse is not strange to any Muslim.…
What Algorithms Imply for Us
Different people have different styles of handling situations; as the proverb says “Different strokes for different folks.” Another…
A Serendipitous November
“Yes, we can,” responded a few hundred thousand people in Chicago to the encouraging and hope-inspiring address of…
Days of Depression and Our Atlas of Hope
Today, almost everybody speaks about “material welfare and comfort,” without seeing any values other than these, or rather without…
Mathematical Thinking
Equipped with the faculties of curiosity and intelligence, human beings have built telescopes and launched spacecraft to discover…
Wetting The Bed
WHEN WE BRING UP OUR CHILDREN, WE SHOULD REGARD THEM AS BEING ENTRUSTED TO US BY THE ALMIGHTY.…
Reflections on The Struggle of Life
WHILE BEING CONTINUOUSLY BUSY WITH, OR EVEN OVERWHELMED BY, THE NECESSITIES OF MODERN LIFE HAVE YOU EVER REFLECTED…
How Should We Sleep
Human beings spend about one third of their life sleeping. But the place of sleep in the life…
In Search of Peace On Integration Problems and Provocations
After the series of violent events in France, the Muslim immigrants in European ghettos and their integration into…
Respect For Humankind
Loving and respecting humanity merely because they are human is an expression of respect for the Almighty Creator.…