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e earliest recorded permanent human communication is cave painting, dating to 33,000BcE. Written communication emerged in Sumer, the southern part of Mesopotamia (now Iraq), using a script called Cuneiform, written on clay tablets. It was used primarily for accounting. The Sumerians are responsible for our com
an be created without understanding. Can a monkey, or perhaps some form of computerized random number generator, accidentally type out the script for Shakespeare's Hamlet or write Tolstoy’s War and Peace? Is knowledge generation simply a numbers game? Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is generally assumed to be the
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’s Chinese Room 66, 222 secret message 214 Seeger, Pete 162 Sego, Daniel 335 self-halting problem 250 SendMail 265 Shadows of the Mind 50, 282 Shakespeare, William 39, 129, 131, 138, 140, 254 Shamir, Adi 165 Shannon, Claude xiii, 3, 216, 337 Sharman, Mike ix Shaw, George Bernard 25, 78, 286 Shockle
d, nomadic societies into a tight, enduring and largely effective authoritarianism. Wittfogel argued that the “irrigation societies” of Egypt, China, Mesopotamia, and South America all reflected this link between survival and water control. Power pooled in the hands of what he called a “Hydraulic Bureaucracy”.
lague, strangled as heretical, burnt up in a library fire, or dissolved by some military misfortune. This is why, for instance, we have almost all of Shakespeare and why we are missing so much of Sappho. Widespread knowledge changed this. A solid, inarguable base endured. “If 1 have seen further,” Newton famou
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