About

I am a 69-year-old father of a precocious 7 year-old which should tell you a lot right there. As an IP attorney with a focus on creating conscious computers, watching the spark of self-awareness suddenly burst forth from the indistinguishable collective background of my daughter’s “wetware” had a profound effect on me and my understanding of cognition.

Infants live in a world of “presentism” without the ability to connect events, memories, and use symbolic language. A mysterious recursive event arises somewhere around the first year when they can recognize themselves in the mirror and distinguish their immediate environment from themselves. This is the beginning of consciousness.

Einstein’s Incredibly Messy Desk: Essays on Science, AI, Nature, & Society

Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds to inhabit the planet presumably left behind a well-ordered estate plan and, of course, the brilliantly organized scientific works which redefined our very notion of time, space, and our place in the universe. However, few of us are aware that he also left behind a “final desk” which looked like the aftermath of a Category 5 Hurricane. However, there is a wonderful message behind the messy desk which defines Einstein’s very thought process and the secret to his success – his disdain for the precepts of academia and predilection to be an outlier in all things scientific. Author and technologist, Charles Moster, defies the world of academia and proposes his own unique and paradigm shifting essays on the critical subjects of the day and all things scientific, technological, and societal. Be prepared to see the world in an entirely new way!

Future 2050: 12 Visions of the Time Ahead

Behold – 12 Crisp and Detailed Portraits of the Future — some exhilarating and others frightening. Bio-Computers based on harvested neurons will exhibit consciousness by 2050 and remake humankind in their own image. How about living for hundreds of years, time travel, and sexual encounters off any conceivable chart. Forgot to mention that the winners live in settlements known as Corporate City States and everyone else in squalor, chaos, and conflict. Welcome to the Year 2050. Take an amazing and detailed journey to the Year 2050 in this unique work by Futurist Charles Moster.

“Parenthetically Thinking” – Intelligent Life Outside the Margins

The most fascinating ideas are proposed by radical thinkers who live outside the margins of contemporary thought. Their ideas are opposed by the establishment but ultimately become the new foundations in science and technology. Albert Einstein is a perfect example as his ideas upended the universal concepts proposed by Isaac Newton and were vehemently opposed by the scientific establishment before they were adopted. You can add to that the advent of quantum mechanics which proposed an alternative view of reality which is still incomprehensible to most physicists. True to this tradition, Charles Moster proposes paradigm shifting ideas in the areas of evolution, cosmology, physics, and the way we view ourselves in the universe.

So Far 

Futurist, author, and attorney Charles Moster provides an accelerated chronicle of his life and the world “So Far”. Given world events and a sense that a nuclear war could break out at any time, he felt an urgency to get his message of humanity and hope out now and not wait until the end of the year. Thus, the title “So Far”. We have all traveled “So Far” and hopefully the adventure will continue for all of us.

The Golden Mile – The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty: HERE COMES OLD SPARKY!

It is not widely known that Bayer AG, manufactured and heavily promoted the use of Zyklon B which was used by Hitler during WW-2 to exterminate over 6 Million Jews including women and children. You can add a few other American Corporations to this ghoulish list of crimes. Lawyer and Author, Charles Moster, considers whether Bayer and other corporations should be held liable for Murder given the egregious nature of their crimes. As you cannot execute an artificial entity, the analogue of the death penalty would be to force the involuntary dissolution of the subject corporations and to seize their assets as compensation for the families of surviving victims. Mr. Moster presents a “how to book” on how to make criminal corporations pay the ultimate price.

NOTES TO OUR DAUGHTER

I almost died on May 5, 2019. My wife, two-year-old daughter, and I were on a flight to Cleveland, Ohio in hopes of being admitted to the Cleveland Clinic, the top cardiac surgery center in the world. I had never been previously admitted to a hospital and was now facing the grim reaper and the horrific reality that my daughter would grow up without knowing her 64-year-old Dad. I almost coded on the airplane and scared my wife when I informed her that I could not walk out of the plane to the baggage claim. The facts of my grave illness are not the subject of this essay but I contracted a blood and heart infection known as endocarditis. In a very short time, my chest would be cracked open and my fate assigned to surgeons and principally a heart and lung machine. Thanks to the brilliant and compassionate surgeons and docs at Cleveland Clinic, I am alive to tell the tale. That said, given the grueling recovery, I would never wish this on my worst enemy (perhaps). All of this necessarily got me thinking about leaving my daughter behind without an instruction manual. It may be that most parents in their relatively early chronological years do not dwell on the necessity of an instruction manual for their kids given the urgency of all things critical and temporary which seem to fill our early post-marital – building career and wealth concerns. However, my perspective was very different. “Notes to Our Daughter” is my attempt to distill my life experiences down to a few pages with the critical information, history, and lessons I want to share with my daughter. I hope that this narrative is meaningful for parents everywhere and at any age.

Teilhard’s Arrow – An Original Theory of Everything

Did life on Earth emerge entirely by chance as advanced by Charles Darwin or was there a miraculous process involved which can be verified scientifically? Author, Charles Moster, seeks to answer this age-old question by examining the latest developments in science. His “Original Theory of Everything” formulates a new paradigm which he calls “Intelligent Process” versus the standard “Intelligent Design”. Can the existence of God be established logically and reconciled with the latest developments in Biology, Genetics, Cosmology, Physics, and Artificial Intelligence? Can this same process be employed to prove up the existence of Evil and what about the prospects of building a fully conscious computer? Come explore these fascinating questions and reach your own conclusions.

Project Principia: A New Proposal for the Commercial Development and Colonization of Space

Why are we still launching spacecraft into Earth orbit in 2020 and what happened to our Apollo era dreams of achieving space colonization before the dawn of the 21st Century? This essay explains what happened and presents a novel proposal to rapidly develop the capability to launch commercial interplanetary space ventures for resource mining, colonization, and exploration of the Solar System and beyond.

Charles Moster is an attorney, technologist, author, playwright, journalist, and composer who has written nine books including Teilhard’s Arrow – A New Theory of Everything; Midnight at Mount Vernon – The Cyber Surrender of the USA; The Six Pillars of the New American Partnership; The Golden Mile – the Case for the Corporate Death Penalty; Notes to Our Daughter; Hypatia Travels in Time; Hypatia Shows Us Her Library – A Kids’ Guide to Science and Nature; and 8 Original Musicals by Charles Moster. Charles is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds a Masters and Law Degree. The Moster Law Firm has seven offices across Texas. Charles is also the co-founder of Virtual Charley, LLC which is developing human level computer software which can pass the Turing Test. He is also a columnist for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal and regularly appears in the Austin-American Statesman.

The Six Pillars of the New American Partnership: Expanded Edition

When the Founders wrote the Constitution in 1787, they did not have a contemporary democracy or republic to use as an example. They set out to formulate their theories from scratch which were published in the Federalist Papers. So how did their theories and assumptions play out? Fortunately, we have the benefit of 20/20 Historical Hindsight to see what worked and what missed the mark. In this fascinating inquiry, Charles Moster identifies the five main things which went wrong and proposes as his Sixth Pillar – a new Constitution and new government to address the problems – the New American Partnership.