Epstein Secrets

, 20 years ago we learned that the electric guitar is the most popular instrument in the world, and also that there are more bacteria than humans on Earth. The former fact is no longer true (keyboard synthesizers have outpaced electric guitars). but the latter is. And, if you'd asked us 20 years ago w

ke intelligence and human-like embodiment; and partly due to a more specific intuition regarding the value of action for perception, as reflected in Heinz von Foerster's dictum "if you want to see, learn how to act". We suspect there are important cognitive reasons why perception in the human brain ce

stations of having had a mystical experience, such as an increase in compassion, forgiveness and more respectful and reverential attitudes toward the Earth and all its creatures (currently taking the forms of deep ecology, ecofeminism, herbal medicine, organic farming and the like), these times bring mor

ya Prigogine, Freeman, San Francisco, 1980 The Development of Mathematics, E. 7. Bell, McGraw Hill, N.Y. 1945 Deterministic Chaos, An Introduction, Heinz, George Schuster, VCH, Weinheim, 1989 Lectures on Dynamical Systems, Structural Stability and their Applications, Kotic K. Lee, World Scientific, Ho

ich was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of fire, small holes through which celestial fire was visible as stars, and hemispherical Earth riding on turtleback. It was this wild modeling strategy, not Babylonian extrapolation, that jolted Eratosthenes (276- 194 BC) to perform one of the

tion, Edward Feigenbaum 13 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016816 and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Supercomputer Consortium. In 1981 with Heinz’s help, I had founded “The Reality Club” (the precursor to the non-profit Edge.org), whose initial interdisciplinary meetings took place in the Board

ich was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of fire, small holes through which celestial fire was visible as stars, and hemispherical Earth riding on turtleback. It was this wild modeling strategy, not Babylonian extrapolation, that jolted Eratosthenes (276- 194 BC) to perform one of the

tion, Edward Feigenbaum 13 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016233 and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Supercomputer Consortium. In 1981 with Heinz’s help, I had founded “The Reality Club” (the precursor to the non-profit Edge.org), whose initial interdisciplinary meetings took place in the Board

0. The strands of cable needed to make up the magnetic coils in the LHC span about 270,000 kilometers, or about six times the circum- ference of the Earth. If all the filaments in the strands were unrav- eled, they would stretch to the Sun and back more than five times. 11. The total energy in each bea

otopapn biPm This is possible for a reason discovered in an experiment in 1933 by Walther Meissner and colleagues, explained by theorists Fritz and Heinz London two years later, which goes by the name the Meissner effect. As Faraday and Maxwell discovered sixty years earlier, electric charges respon