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… let this thing gatekeep me?” Who should rule in this new world? You? The New Caste? The machines? 4. The great test of Plato’s life began 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 mi...

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…ners 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 learning. Aristot...

Mentioned briefly above was one of humankind’s beacons, Pythagoras, the intellectual and spiritual progenitor of Plato. He taught the disciples of the Pythagorean Brotherhood in Crotona, Italy, that reality at its deepest level was mathematical thought. Studies there included phi...

…ere are enough data. Over time, there has been a seesaw between this bottom-up approach to the mystery of learning and Plato’s alternative, top-down one. Maybe we get abstract knowledge from concrete data because we already know a lot, and especially because we already have an a...

…f listening, has not really been expressed di- rectly very often. It is, however, indirectly referred to often enough. Plato comments: The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be guided to the love of that s...

…ere are enough data. Over time, there has been a seesaw between this bottom-up approach to the mystery of learning and Plato’s alternative, top-down one. Maybe we get abstract knowledge from concrete data because we already know a lot, and especially because we already have an a...

one that redounds onto Plato’s political question and

even today. Who should rule? Again and again Plato

asking if Plato might sail to Syracuse (we know it

” he later said. “I was worsted.” Plato made a final

…n’t use that word in the East. Let’s go for lunch. [We head downstairs. ] Deepak: With idealism one usually relates to Plato in the West or to Bishop Berkeley and all those guys, you know. But basically, what idealism espouses, it’s mental. But non- dualism says even mental is a...

…ysics 180 determinism 316 Picasso, Pablo 232, 246, 298 pit vipers 102 Pixar 306 Places game 168 plank interval 131, 255 Plato 149, 179 Podolsky, Jacob 332 poem computer created 134 Poincaré Conjecture 357 Poincaré, Henri 171, 180 Polaroid lenses 332 police strike 54 Polish Intell...

…ip between modern Lebanon and Turkey, they evolved a highly secretive syncretistic theology containing an amalgam of Neoplatonic, Gnostic, Christian, Muslim, and Zoroastrian elements. Their leading theologian, Abdullah al- Khasibi, who died in 957, proclaimed the divinity of Ali,...

…uct of physicality, and you can’t. Because physicality itself is a construct. 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...