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an when he was 60 years old. He’d had an astonishing life until then, of course. He’d been taught by Socrates and, in turn, had sharpened the mind of Aristotle. He’d established his famous Academy in Athens. The puzzles of philosophy and politics that defined his city’s most turbulent era had been the work o
e system may be pwned before we're quite aware. Such 173 “Democracy”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 246 174 “Our constitution”: Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War, (Oxford: Oxford University Clarendon Press, 1881),119 119 HOUS
and decision making, they are the best learners in the universe. Much of the process of turning data into theories happens before we are five. Since Aristotle and Plato, there have been two basic ways of addressing the problem of how we know what we know, and they are still the main approaches in machine le
ish “analog” versus “digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in 33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18. 125 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016928 fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of struc
and decision making, they are the best learners in the universe. Much of the process of turning data into theories happens before we are five. Since Aristotle and Plato, there have been two basic ways of addressing the problem of how we know what we know, and they are still the main approaches in machine le
ish “analog” versus “digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in 33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18. 125 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016345 fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of struc
iversity. -o A CRACK IN CREATION Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution By Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg [US — Houghton Mifflin, UK — Bodley Head, China — Hunan Science, Audio — Audible; Manuscript; Pub Date: June 2017; 320 pages] In the tradition of The Double Helix, A Crack
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025151 →efore Socrates) who raised paradoxes about infinity, continuity, time, space, and motion that confounded his contemporaries and provoked no less than Aristotle to banish infinity from Greek philosophy and mathematics from then on. Fast-forward more than 2,500 years, and we’re still wrestling with infinity an
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