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The common thread of Pinocchio’s story is his desire to become a human being. Unlike some creators who approached the adventures of Pinocchio in the context of posthumanism the transhumanism embraces technological progress while strongly defending human rights and individual choice. Pinocchio is aware of his incompleteness: he seeks during the story to become „a real boy.” Human consciousness can refer to things that we do not perceive directly. Pinocchio is a „child” without a mother, created by his father to fill his loneliness. He highlights the current problem of the relationship between man and his creation, out of control.

The emotional intelligence models have helped to develop different tools for construct assessment. Each theoretical paradigm conceptualizes emotional intelligence from one of two perspectives: ability or mixed model. Ability models consider emotional intelligence as a pure form of mental ability and therefore as pure intelligence. Mixed models of emotional intelligence combine mental capacity with personality traits. The trait models of emotional intelligence refer to the individual perceptions of their own emotional abilities. Cognitive learning involves placing new information into existing frameworks and modes of understanding.

An analysis of the concepts of heuristics and methodological tolerance developed by Lakatos, based on the article "Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programs", first published in 1970 and then in the book The methodology of scientific research programs, Volume I. I analyzed, in this text, the author's exemplification for Bohr's light emission research program (in early quantum physics). A detailed exemplification of the concepts is presented by Lakatos in the section "Newton's effect on scientific standards" in the same book. I have also made frequent references to the book Proofs and Refutations (Lakatos 1976) published by Lakatos in 1976, in which he exposes his heuristic view through a direct application to the evolution of mathematics, and I have also referred to articles by other authors for the analysis of the two concepts in Lakatos' view.

About the possibility of time travel based on several specialist works, including those of Nicholas J.J. Smith ("Time Travel", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"), William Gray ("Troubles with Time Travel"), Ulrich Meyer ("Explaining causal loops"), Simon Keller and Michael Nelson ("Presentists should believe in time-travel "), Frank Arntzenius and Tim Maudlin ("Time Travel and Modern Physics") and David Lewis ("The Paradoxes of Time Travel"). The paper begins with an Introduction in which I give a brief introduction to time travel, and continues with a History of the concept of time travel, presenting the main physical aspects of time travel, including time travel in the past in general relativity and in quantum physics and travel in time into the future, then an introduction to the Grandfather Paradox which is addressed in almost all specialist works, followed by a section devoted to the Philosophy of Time Travel, and a section where I analyze the Causal Loops for Time Travel. I conclude the paper with Conclusions, in which I present my personal views on time travel, and the Bibliography on which the paper is based.

As eugenics is defined, it is very difficult to make a clear distinction between science (medicine, genetic engineering) and eugenics. And to establish a line over which genetic engineering should not cross, according to moral, legal and religious norms. As long as we accept the help of genetics in finding ways to fight cancer, diabetes or HIV, we also implicitly accept positive eugenics, according to the current definition. And as long as we accept genetic screening, and interventions on the unborn fetus, or abortion, we also implicitly accept negative eugenics. Furthermore, at the level of governments, although eugenics is officially repudiated, it was legalized in many countries until recently, and is still accepted and legalized, albeit in more subtle forms, even today. In the Introduction I define the term and ways of classification. Next is the History of eugenics starting from the ancient period, the introduction of eugenics by Francis Galton, the practice of eugenics as a state policy in various countries, and current eugenics (liberal eugenics). I then analyze various issues raised by the Ethics of Liberal Eugenics, and have developed a separate section for The Future of Eugenics, focusing on the Human Genome Project. Finally, in the Conclusions section I present my personal views on the current practice of eugenics.