Epstein Secrets

tly used by modern physicists to establish deep relationships between physical quantities. I just used it last year, for example, with my colleague Frank Wilczek, to demonstrate a fundamental property of gravity relevant to understanding the creation of our universe. Each contribution on its own would have f

last year, for example, with my colleague Frank Wilczek, to demonstrate a fundamental property of gravit

is motivation, but because of what he discovered. Newton was convinced that light was made of particles, which he re- ferred to as corpuscles, while Descartes, and later Newton's nemesis Robert Hooke, and still later the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, all claimed that light was a wave. One of the key

So, dualism doesn't make me happy. Idealism doesn't make me happy. Physicalism, I don't know what matter is anymore. I interviewed the Nobel laureate Wilczek, physicist from MIT. So I said, "What is matter?" "It's particles." I said, "What are particles, subatomic particles?" He says, "They are little thin

ct. Then you have the idealists going back to Plato who are saying it's all mental. But even mental ideas are constructs. Then you have the dualists, Descartes, the two are separate, mind and body. But then how do you explain their interaction? It violates simple laws like thermodynamics. If mind is separate

, dualism doesn't make me happy. Idealism doesn't make me happy. Physicalism, I don't know what matter is anymore. I interviewed the Nobel laureate Wilczek, physicist from MIT. So I said, "What is matter?" "It's particles." I said, "What are particles, subatomic particles?" He says, "They are little thi

t. Then you have the idealists going back to Plato who are saying it's all mental. But even mental ideas are constructs. Then you have the dualists, Descartes, the two are separate, mind and body. But then how do you explain their interaction? It violates simple laws like thermodynamics. If mind is separa

ied to children and the disabled.*° What prevents extension to other animals, organoids, machines, and hybrids? As we (e.g., Hawking, Musk, Tallinn, Wilczek, Tegmark) have promoted bans on “autonomous weapons,” we have demonized one type of “dumb” machine, while other machines—for instance, those composed

it allowed us to make sense of the world around us, to plan ahead, and thus cope with all sorts of unexpected things in order to survive. However, as Descartes stated, we humans define our very existence by our ability to think. So it is not surprising that, in an anthropomorphic way, our fears about AI refl

ied to children and the disabled.*° What prevents extension to other animals, organoids, machines, and hybrids? As we (e.g., Hawking, Musk, Tallinn, Wilczek, Tegmark) have promoted bans on “autonomous weapons,” we have demonized one type of “dumb” machine, while other machines—for instance, those composed

it allowed us to make sense of the world around us, to plan ahead, and thus cope with all sorts of unexpected things in order to survive. However, as Descartes stated, we humans define our very existence by our ability to think. So it is not surprising that, in an anthropomorphic way, our fears about AI refl