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The Relativistic Brain: How it works and why it cannot be simulated by a Turing machine (Brains, computers, society)
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The big advantage of physicists—I think Doyne Farmer may have once said this to me—is not what they have learned, the tools. It’s how they have learned to think. In particular, physicists are quite good at being very, very broad, taking tools from all over the place. That is something that economists are very, very remiss in. It is a b—tch to try t
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
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One after another, the greatest figures in physics seemed to develop an unexpected late-career interest in the mystery of life itself, even taking abrupt shifts toward the formal study of biology.
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Crypto Sci-Hub and the Decentralization of Science
In order to do science, we had to translate these quantum phenomena into the language of classical physics—referring to cause and effect, space and time—accepting even as we did so that this language was necessarily metaphoric and anthropocentric.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
