Epstein Secrets

n; the precision cosmologist Max Tegmark; the robotocists Rodney Brooks and Chris Anderson, the science historians Peter Galison, George Dyson, and David Kaiser; the technologist Jaan Tallin; the cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, the writers Kevin Kelly and Pamela McCorduck. As Daniel C. Dennett notes: "re

cher Geoffrey West; the computational socia)1 scientist Alex "Sandy" Pentland; the computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis; the cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson; the arts curator Hans Ulrich Obrist; the genomics researcher George Church; the molecular biologist Ventraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan, the quantum me

rt Jourdain, Science Writer, Mendacino Lynne Jones, Sociologist, University of Cambridge Daniel Kahneman, Psychologist & Nobel Laureate, Princeton David Kaiser, Science Historian, Harvard Anya Kamenetz, Journalist, FAST COMPANY Rodger Kamenetz, Poet & Writer, Tulane Eric Kandel, Neurobiologist, Nobel Priz

rabasi, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Notre Dame Simon Baron-Cohen, Neuroscientist, Cambridge University Gregory Bateson (Estate), Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, Anthropologist, George Mason Univeristy Yochai Benkler, Internet Legal Expert, Harvard Benjamin Bergen, Cognitive Scientist, UC, San Diego Paul B

, prompting him to ask, “Do we need a new set of guiding metaphors?” 108 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016911 “INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Soc

ut, harmonizing those sensory, scintillating signals. Mind happens well outside the limits of the cranium (and its simulacrum, the “motherboard”). In Mary Catherine Bateson’s paraphrase of her father Gregory’s second-order cybernetics, mind is material “not necessarily defined by a boundary such as an envelope of skin.”°

ines to seem as smart as a mosquito, forever descending the cosmic gradients to an ultimate goal, whatever that may be. 107 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016327 David Kaiser is a physicist atypically interested in the intersection of his science with politics and culture, about which he has written widely. In the first m

ut, harmonizing those sensory, scintillating signals. Mind happens well outside the limits of the cranium (and its simulacrum, the “motherboard”). In Mary Catherine Bateson’s paraphrase of her father Gregory’s second-order cybernetics, mind is material “not necessarily defined by a boundary such as an envelope of skin.”°