Author: David Berlinski
Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room
For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents.
Ovid in His Exile
Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments.
Good as Gould? Ask a Chimp
No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks?
Iterations of Immortality
The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world.
Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism
Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals.