Author: David Berlinski
Letter from Paris: Notre-Dame Restored
If the cathedral had lost something of its causal connection to the past, it had reacquired its original colors and with those colors, its intended design.
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.