“I’m very pragmatic. The question is, what’s the minimum I need to know about the brain to reconstruct all of it?”
Tag: 05.13
On The Verge Of A Golden Age Of Education
“In the last 20-30 years, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists have furthered our understanding, gaining a more literal “in-sight” into the mind’s inner workings, and through this, they have just begun to test, measure, expand, and further stimulate the work of the artists and philosophers before them.”
Haruki Murakami On Why He Translated The Great Gatsby
“To the best of my recollection, I was in my late thirties when I started telling people I was going to translate The Great Gatsby when I turned sixty. … Metaphorically speaking, I had placed Gatsby securely on my kamidana, the high shelf that serves as a household shrine to the Shinto gods, and then lived my life glancing up at it from time to time.”
How Our Understanding Of Data Will Change How We Think
“The Internet has reshaped how humanity communicates. Big data is different: it marks a transformation in how society processes information. In time, big data might change our way of thinking about the world. As we tap ever more data to understand events and make decisions, we are likely to discover that many aspects of life are probabilistic, rather than certain.”