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almers George Church Freeman Dyson George Dyson Peter Galison Neil Gershenfeld Alison Go nik Tom Griffiths W. Daniel Hillis Jennifer Jacquet Daniel Kahneman Caroline Jones Seth Lloyd Sandy Pentland Frank Wilczek Stephen Wolfram INVITED Demis Hassibis (possible) Ian McEwan I am very excited about

various disciplines to talk and interact with each other. Participants included a who's who of cutting edge scientific intellectuals: H. Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, Julian H. Bigelow, Warren McCulloch, Margaret Mead, F.S.C. Northrop, Walter Pitts, Arturo Rosenthbleuth, John Von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Heinz Vo

n, Gerald Edelman, Michael Gazzaniga, Murray Gell- Mann, Neil Gershenfeld, Daniel Gilbert, Daniel Goleman, Brian Greene, Alan Guth, W. Daniel Hillis, Daniel Kahneman, Eric ICandel,Kevin Kelly, Jaron Lanier, Joseph LeDoux, Andre Linde, Marvin Minsky, Benoit Mandelbrot (Estate), John Markoff, Martin Nowak, Elaine P

Banerjee, Economist, MIT Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, 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 B

mits on computational resources. The efficacy of human algorithms springs from what AI researchers refer to as “bounded optimality.” As psychologist Daniel Kahneman has notably pointed out, human beings are rational only up to a point. If you were perfectly rational, you would risk dropping dead before making an

nce I had an MBA from Colombia Business School, and a series of relative successes in business, I was dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and for sums that caught my attention, thus kick-starting my career as a literary agent. I never did mee

mits on computational resources. The efficacy of human algorithms springs from what AI researchers refer to as “bounded optimality.” As psychologist Daniel Kahneman has notably pointed out, human beings are rational only up to a point. If you were perfectly rational, you would risk dropping dead before making an

nce I had an MBA from Colombia Business School, and a series of relative successes in business, I was dragooned into becoming an agent, initially for Gregory Bateson and John Lilly, whose books I sold quickly, and for sums that caught my attention, thus kick-starting my career as a literary agent. I never did mee