Episteme
-
Apostasy
A stuffy atmosphere pervades Kingdom Hall, the suburban assembly point for the small community of Jehovah…
-
“Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less” (Marie Curie)
Quick notes jotted down after the splendid seminar / conversation between Yuval Harari (of “Homo Sapiens”…
-
Silicon Valley and Utopia
In a deep contribution (“Occidente senza Utopie”, Il Mulino, 2016: see video below: Italian), Massimo Cacciari argues…
-
Katharsis
Modern art is an attempt to burst free of the constraints of tight narrative structures, a…
-
Big Data and AI strategies
We live in the so-called dataquake: ‘A few thousands of years ago, you needed to be…
-
Marcello Veneziani & l’ “Illuminismo Radicale”
Ne ‘Il Giornale’ del 14 Maggio 2012, Marcello Veneziani articolava una riflessione veramente degna di nota.…
-
On Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” & eusociality
“What brought a single primate line to a rare level of eusociality?” asks Edward Wilson, the well-known…
-
“Religions keeps us from thinking to hard problems”
Marvin Minsky needs no presentation: his unflinching atheism was proverbial as the video below clearly testifies.…
-
Feed-forward networks and teleology
Bertrand Russell, in “History of Western Philosophy” pgg. 86-87, writes: The atomists, unlike Socrates, Plato, and…
-
Bosch’s “The Conjurer” & Nim Chimpsky
The famous painting by Bosch “The Conjurer” depicts an example of a cognitive fallacy of the human being,…
rtraba 