Moji Motions

A child prodigy is a young person who demonstrates exceptional talent or ability at an unusually early age (e.g. excelling academically, artistically, or professionally far beyond their peers during childhood). A late bloomer is a person whose talents, success, or personal development emerge significantly later than their peers, often reaching their potential in adulthood rather than early in life.

Uncertainty avoidance - measures the extent to which different cultures socialise their members into accepting ambiguous situations and tolerating uncertainty. So, in a culture that ranks high on uncertainty avoidance, people place a premium on job security, retirement benefits, and so on, while in a low uncertainty avoidance culture, people are more willing to take risks, and are less resistant to change.

For the purpose of this debate, a machine exists which would allow would-be parents to select personality and behavioural traits for their children. These traits are confirmed and are ingrained in their children from childhood well into adulthood, but are not necessarily unchangeable later in life.

You are an elderly citizen living alone with your spouse in a house of your own. You share meaningful connections in your neighborhood. You and your spouse both have several health conditions as a result of your age. You have children, all of them are all adults, and live within the same city. They suggest that they you move into a nursing home with their support.

A technology exists that allows for terminally ill patients to impart their best living consciousness into an artificial intelligence before they pass away. The consciousness would then live in this AI and can interct with this person's loved ones. It will almost be as if this person has never left. Think JARVIS or FRIDAY (from Iron Man) but for dead people.

The 'philosophy of water' comprises "H+H+O = H2O", which in detail means "Humility: water stays low in the river, yet it is a life-giving force; Harmony: water does not fight against its surroundings, it works with them to find a course; and Openness: water is open to change: gas, liquid, solid. It adapts and alters its form accordingly. The 'philosophy of fire' comprises opposite elements: Fierce, Insistent, Relentless, Exhaustive. It teaches one to develop a more rigid and firm sense of self that charges forward no matter what and burns all obstacles.