From Selfish Genes to Social Brains The Chicago Social Brain Network was established to examine how science might inform us about our fundamental human nature, including the apparently irrepressible quest for connection with a higher understanding and organization. Science can d...
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From: Robert Kuhn Sent: 12/31/2017 1:04:06 AM To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Subject: Re: Kuhn - Breakthroughs (and Trump) Importance: High Tomorrow Sunday after 1:00 pm? Flexible. Anytime. Skype? FaceTime? Phone? On Dec 29, 2017, at 3:27 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail...
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Knowledge-Based Education vs. Process-Based Education 79 idea that one needs background knowledge in order to read, which is both true and a product of various works in cognitive science. Hirsch was made to look like a fool so often that he resorted to hir- ing a cognitive scie...
and have the results analyzed by the various stakeholders—trather like elected legislatures were originally intended to do. If we have the data that go into and out of each decision, we can easily ask, Is this a fair algorithm? Is this AI doing things that we as humans believe a...
from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for masculine control, deployed by James Watt to describe his 19th-century device for modulating a runaway steam engine. Cybernetics thus took ideas that had long analogized people and devices and gener...
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 Room at the NYAS. Heinz was...
some planning capacities. AlphaZero has another interesting feature: It works by playing hundreds of millions of games against itself. As it does so, it prunes mistakes that led to losses, and it repeats and elaborates on strategies that led to wins. Such systems, and others invo...
The Status of the Body Politic and the Status of the Body Itself In the long history of conversations between science and religion, starting points matter. As Don Browning demonstrates through the example of Thomas Aquinas, when religions start with a desire to understand human...
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 Room at the NYAS. Heinz was...
Such an approach to “Radical Breakthroughs” is core CTT - in fact, I attempted this as part of the very first CTT series in 1999/2000 “How do Breakthroughs Change Science” - with evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala; philosopher and neuroscientist Patricia Smith Churchland; au...
key to understanding when people may be likely to invoke natural versus supernatural explanations, when gadgets can seem to have minds of their own, and when people are likely to treat their pets as people and their enemies as animals. A mind like our own, with the capacity to se...
that comes afterwards, as the crops absorb water and grow. The idea of a balance of yin and yang is among the oldest in Chinese philosophy. “When heaven and earth were formed, they divided into yin and yang,” the Huainanzi, one of China’s greatest political texts explains. “Yang...
“INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science,...
Endnotes: Chapter 3 Recommended books: Baron-Cohen, S. (2011). The Science of Evil. New York: Basic Books. Hamburg, D. (2008). Preventing Genocide. Denver: Paradigm Publishers. Johnson, D. P. (2004). Overconfidence and war. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. Kelman, H.C.,...