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A IDADE DA RAZÃO

A Convergência entre Inteligências sob Garantias Éticas Samuel Sales Saraiva Numa noite morna, ao final do verão de 2026, em Washington, D.C., uma pequena raposa esperava, diante de uma igreja iluminada, o alimento que talvez lhe permitisse atravessar o outono. Ironicamente, o alimento não veio do lugar que simbolizava a caridade, mas da consciência de […]

The Circus and the Machinery

Samuel Sales Saraiva When politics ceases to serve citizens and begins to manage their suffocating resignation The same spectacle, repeated with every election around the world Periodically, societies are summoned to the polls. The streets take on colors, slogans reappear, candidates rediscover the poor, speeches promise renewal, and old words — justice, prosperity, equality, development, […]

The Lens of Reason: An Academic Perception Confirmed by Time

EDITORIAL When Recognition Precedes the Work There are expressions of appreciation that transcend courtesy and, with the passage of time, acquire the value of historical testimony. It was with this feeling that I recently came across a letter I had received from a professor at the University of Valencia, in Spain. Written at a time […]

When Fear Became Sacred

Samuel Sales Saraiva The origin of worship and the human construction of divine submission From awe before nature to the institutionalization of belief: a sociocultural machinery constructed over millennia, fueled by fear, the need for explanation, ritual, and authority — up to the point where that which cannot be demonstrated becomes, in certain religious […]

Love Without Presence

When faith and artificial intelligence turn abstractions into real presences, reproducing the platonic love devoted to deified figures Samuel Sales Saraiva I. A New Digital Extimacy A report about a romantic relationship between a human being and a character created by artificial intelligence may, at first glance, seem like just another extravagance of our technological […]

Artificial Intelligence, Free Will, and the Forgotten Discernment

Samuel Sales Saraiva Human beings without discernment are like automobiles built without brakes: a dangerous omission by their inventor, capable of turning them into fatal instruments at the service of crime when the mind itself is used irresponsibly. I. The ancient distrust of the new Artificial intelligence has often been presented as a threat to […]

Artificial Intelligence and the Convergence of Reason

A Reflection on the Ethical Expansion of Its Usefulness and the Civilizational Responsibility to Broaden Its Benefits for Humanity Samuel Sales Saraiva I. A Civilizational Journey That Is Only Beginning Artificial intelligence has definitively entered the human experience as one of the most important tools ever developed by civilization to expand our capacity for analysis, […]

The Uncertainties of the Human Journey

The awareness of finiteness The abandoned anchor represents the certainties we leave behind; the solitary sailboat, our dreams and projects; the rough sea, the unpredictability of existence; and the light on the horizon, the mystery that accompanies our brief cosmic crossing. Without the anchors of other people’s certainties that we so often make our own, […]

The Unveiling of Conscience and Reason

Samuel Sales Saraiva The Prison of Habits and the Awakening of Reflection Reflecting is more than thinking. It is submitting what we think, desire, and believe to the silent examination of conscience. When human beings renounce this exercise, they do not merely abandon an intellectual activity: they abdicate, to some degree, their own inner freedom. […]

The Age of Reason Arrives on Amazon in Seven Languages

Published in seven languages, the work introduced by Senator Álvaro Dias offers a reflection on human consciousness, ethics, and the convergence of intelligences By the Editorial Staff The Age of Reason — The Convergence of Intelligences under Ethical Safeguards, a work by journalist and writer Samuel Sales Saraiva, arrives on Amazon following extensive editorial […]

When the Pulpit Becomes a Hiding Place

Sexual abuse committed by religious leaders, the silence of victims, and the moral duty to report By Samuel Sales Saraiva Millions of people enter churches, temples, synagogues, and other religious institutions seeking peace, guidance, and some relief for their anguish. Many arrive vulnerable due to the loss of a loved one, family conflicts, financial difficulties, […]

The Gold That Artificial Intelligence Has Yet to Learn to Recognize

Samuel Sales Saraiva How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Its Own Criteria for Recognizing Ideas of Philosophical, Ethical, and Civilizational Significance Artificial intelligence has already learned how to identify words, patterns, preferences, and trends. Its next advance may consist in helping humanity recognize, in the most unlikely of places, an idea capable of expanding its horizons. […]

The Gold That Artificial Intelligence Has Yet to Learn to Recognize

Samuel Sales Saraiva How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Its Own Criteria for Recognizing Ideas of Philosophical, Ethical, and Civilizational Significance Artificial intelligence has already learned how to identify words, patterns, preferences, and trends. Its next advance may consist in helping humanity recognize, in the most unlikely of places, an idea capable of expanding its horizons. […]

What Makes Love Eternal in The Gesture

Samuel Sales Saraiva The Refuge of Conscience: The Invisible Circle of Care Aspen Hill, Montgomery County — Metropolitan Washington, D.C., United States There are places not built to teach, but which end up transforming into true classrooms of conscience. Today, passing through Aspen Hill, in Montgomery County, in the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., […]

Who Watches The Watchers?

Corporatism, Power, and Conscience in the Permanent Construction of Justice Samuel Sales Saraiva I — The inevitable question There are institutions that were born to protect society against the abuse of power. But there is a prior, uncomfortable, and perhaps inevitable question: Who protects society when those charged with overseeing power need to be overseen […]

Beyond Algorithms: The Awakening of Reason

— The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence Samuel Sales Saraiva We live in a singular era. Never before has humanity produced so much knowledge, developed so many technologies, or had such immediate access to information. Paradoxically, however, it continues to encounter enormous difficulty in devoting attention to the questions capable of guiding this extraordinary intellectual […]

When Simplicity Invites Reflection

Twenty-Five Meditations for a Consciousness in Continuous Maturation By Samuel Sales Saraiva At Views of Reason, we believe that simple ideas can reveal unexpected depths when contemplated with serenity. The reflections that follow do not pretend to teach how to live nor offer definitive answers. They merely seek to share perspectives that may help […]

The Illusion of the Volatile and the Truth of the Soul

Reflections on Acceptance, Rejection, and the Inexorable Liberation of Being By Samuel Saraiva The human soul does not bow to dogmas, personal views, or hypothetical conjectures. Sovereign above all constructs of the ego, in its vastness it finds rest only when embraced with absolute sincerity. We are, in essence, living sparks of a single […]

OPEN LETTER TO THE LEADERS AND ARCHITECTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Beyond Intelligence: AI as Humanity’s Next Convergence Infrastructure By Samuel Saraiva PART I — Purpose and Principles “This document does not seek to predict the future or present definitive answers. Its purpose is to offer a grounded interpretation, built upon the history of major technological transformations, the currently observable capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, and […]

Carta Abierta a los Líderes y Arquitectos de la Inteligencia Artificial

Más allá de la Inteligencia: La IA como la Próxima Infraestructura de Convergencia de la Humanidad Por Samuel Saraiva PARTE I — Propósito y Principios “Este documento no pretende predecir el futuro ni presentar respuestas definitivas. Su propósito es ofrecer una interpretación fundamentada, construida a partir de la historia de las grandes transformaciones tecnológicas, […]