The Paradigms and Paradoxes of Intelligence, Part 1: Russell’s Paradox
August 6, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
An exploration of Russell’s Paradox, written for “The Futurecast,” a monthly column in the Library Journal.… read more
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The Paradigms and Paradoxes of Intelligence, Part 2: The Church-Turing Thesis
August 6, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
An exploration of the Church-Turing Thesis, originally written for “The Futurecast,” a monthly column in the Library Journal.… read more
A Formula for Intelligence: The Recursive Paradigm
August 6, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
An explanation of the recursive approach to artificial intelligence, written for “The Futurecast,” a monthly column in the Library Journal.… read more
Another Formula for Intelligence: The Neural Net Paradigm
August 6, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
The neural net approach to artificial intelligence explained, written for “The Futurecast,” a monthly column in the Library Journal.… read more
The Paradigms and Paradoxes of Intelligence: Building a Brain
August 6, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
How to build a brain, written for “The Futurecast,” a monthly column in the Library Journal.… read more
Researching Health and Well-Being at the Library
August 6, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
Researching immortality, written for “The Futurecast,” a monthly column in the Library Journal.… read more
May the Smartest Machine Win: Warfare in the 21st Century
August 6, 2001 by Ray Kurzweil
How technology is changing the ways in which wars are fought, written for “The Futurecast,” a monthly column in the Library Journal.… read more
The End Of Time: A Talk With Julian Barbour
August 3, 2001 by Julian Barbour
In this talk with the Edge’s John Brockman, Julian Barbour takes on the absolute framework of time. And if time truly doesn’t exist, could we, hypothetically, live forever?… read more
Natural Born Cyborgs
August 3, 2001 by Andy Clark
For Andy Clark, the ancient fortress of skin and skull has been breached: as we understand more and more how the brain works, the brains we craft in the future will be extensions of our own. Mindware upgrades and other cognitive upheavals coming soon…… read more
The Emergent Self
August 3, 2001 by Francesco Varela
The late Francesco Varela postulates that organisms have to be understood as a mesh of virtual selves–a bricolage of various identities. How virtual is the reality we live in, and do various realities emerge from cognitive and biological systems?… read more
How Fast, How Small and How Powerful? Moore’s Law and the Ultimate Laptop
August 2, 2001 by Seth Lloyd
A laptop that looks like a thermonuclear explosion inside of a liter bottle of coca cola? Or a black hole? Read Seth Lloyd’s follow up to a Nature article that pushes Moore’s Law to the limit.… read more
Consciousness is a Big Suitcase
August 2, 2001 by Marvin Minsky
Is consciousness reducible to a set of mechanisms in the brain acting in concert? In this discussion with the Edge’s John Brockman, Marvin Minsky peers into the suitcase of the mind.… read more