I was fortunate enough to gain experience with expert systems in real-time production settings during the late 1980s and early 1990s. AI, or artificial intelligence, has always fascinated me. I even went so far as to create my own Windows-based expert system software, which I've dubbed WindExS. In spite of this, as I progressed in my career and delved deeper into information management and, finally, remote viewing, I came across some peculiar contradictions in the AI community and the…