Catalytic Narrative

Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature by Federico Faggin My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was very excited to hear of th...

I want to focus on a small set of the absurdities of so-called Artificial Intelligence. I'm motivated in the first place by some misappr...

For some reason that I can't quite fathom, there have been a lot of articles in the popular press lately about either or both of Panpsyc...

Wasn't Holmes Jr. the author of that quote? I have it on the authority of my brother, a lawyer, that he was. Google says it's MLK Jr...

A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was alerted to this book a while ago, but only recently found it in th...

My daughter sent around this well-reasoned and alarming article from the New Republic. It sent me into a bit of a tailspin, especially as i...

The Three Body Secret of China Some time back in maybe 2016, when I was routinely in Shanghai working for an American College which wanted t...