Episteme
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Pythagorism for the masses: or the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεός ἦν…
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On Genes and Memes
Fact: “Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 850 individuals, of whom at least 22% (without…
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Wiener on learning & Gödel
This is a marvellous paper by former colleague of Norbert Wiener, N. Levinson. The bibliography of…
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A. Burgess: “Clockwork Condition”. A tale on Skinner and Free Will
The real polemic target of Anthony Burgess in The Clockwork Condition (The New Yorker) (here the Italian…
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Engineering initial conditions (some words of thanks)
The human civilization stumbled first upon metric geometry (the Greeks), then it invented projective geometry (Italian…
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Competence without knowledge: a new reading of a page of Solaris
The following is from chapter “The Old Mimoid”, in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem “But you don’t know…
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One, two, three, four, many
“A squire was determined to shoot a crow which made its nest in the watch-tower of…
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Golem xiv: the poverty of Antigone
The best explanation I know about transhumanism, and the poverty of Antigone’s appeal to the ‘unwritten…
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The Grand Design – Roger Sperry
There is a precious little book, which contains some hidden gems. It was written by the…
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Zauberberg, 1929: on Infinity and Kants Einbildungskraft
“We reject the thesis of the categorical finiteness of man, both in the atheistic form of…
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