Epstein Secrets

rse in Design, Manufacturing and Management. They expect to spend the year walking among the city’s hallowed spires, attending lectures, bumping into Stephen Hawking and punting on the River Cam. Instead, they get quite a shock! In 1989, I joined the course. There were twenty-six engineers, a psychologist and a

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standing? Each summer I go on holiday to escape engineering for a couple of weeks. While away I indulge my passion for reading books by the likes of Douglas Hofstadter, David Deutsch and Stephen Hawking. One book that struck me years ago was Roger Penrose’s The Emperors New Mind. In it, he tackles the question of wh

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nt, for instance, in the 19th-century philosophy of Charles Peirce [Pei34], in the writings of contempo- rary philosophers Daniel Dennett [Den91] and Douglas Hofstadter [Hof79, Hof96], in Benjamin Whorf’s [Who64] linguistic philosophy and Gregory Bateson’s [Bat79] systems theory of mind and nature. Bateson spoke of t

urt Roads, Gloria Rudisch, Frederic Rzewski, and Stephen Smoliar. This article is in memory of Irving Fin

rsations and/or improvisa- tions with Maryann Amacher, John Amuedo, Betty Dexter, Harlan Ellison, Edward Fredkin, Bernard Greenberg, Danny Hillis, Douglas Hofstadter, William Komfeld, Andor Kovach, David Levitt, Tod Machover, Charlotte Minsky, Curt Roads, Gloria Rudisch, Frederic Rzewski, and Stephen Smoliar.