In the introduction to “Anarchism” by D. Guerin, Chomsky stresses the existence of a cultural tradition going back to Rousseau (“Discourse on Inequality, 1754), Von Humboldt, “The Limits of State Action” and chiefly Immanuel Kant on the French Revolution remarking that freedom… Read More ›
In a perceptive book, Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer at Google, and responsible for the Hidden Markov Model that stays behind much of today speech and text recognition software (like Siri), restates the position of the Logical Neopositivism as the following:… Read More ›
“Finally, I believe that my attempt to separate the Kant of the Critique of Pure Reason from the Kant of the Critique of Practical Reason has a real basis in history. For bourgeois thought and civilization succeeded in founding the… Read More ›
If someone is, like me, working all the time with RNGs and strives to produce MonteCarlo scenarios about events via computer simulations, he cannot help but thinking that different outcomes are due to different randomness structures (Sobol anyone?) In view… Read More ›
In 2004, two great figures of Europe’s Life of the Mind met to discuss the times of faith and secularization. This is the book containing their thoughts. Ratzinger has been extremely bold in trying to confront the implications of science… Read More ›
Russell (History of Western Philosophy) did not understand Nietzsche when he said that he was an essentially moral philosopher. As Kubrik later explored in his magnificent film (2001:A Space Odyssey), Nietzsche realized the full implications of Darwin’s ideas. He knew… Read More ›
It appears to me that a single idea transpires through Isaac Asimov’s “New Guide to Science”, Carl Sagan’s book “Cosmos” and many more: this idea is Cosmism. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a true legend, the inventor of astronautic and a pioneer… Read More ›
There was a point in which the AI community adopted Chomsky grammars. Grammars are Cartesian universals. The other approach (N. Wiener) would have been to use feedback control system (later: stochastic control) to interpret learning. It did not happen. It… Read More ›
An interesting interview to Paolo Zellini. See also this Hermann Weyl “Über die neue Grundlagenkrise der Mathematik”
Asimov idea of Psychohistory needs being framed in the spirit of Marx grand project or Nietzsche Aphorism 7, “Etwas für Arbeitsame” in “Die fröhliche Wissenschatf” The following is a rephrasing of it, by Imperial College mathematician Dan Crisan (here a power… Read More ›
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