Re:On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertrand Russell
by wombatmobile on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:23AM
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> I'd have loved to have been around this intellectual tour de force when I was studying those subjects
You get to do something they could only dream of back then - fast forward the wheels of history 100 years past two world wars to the age of science fiction where machines can think and speak, planet earth grows food for 8 billion people, and the moon is littered with human footprints from a generation ago.
Those philosophers would love nothing more than to spend an hour with you listening to your descriptions and thoughts about the world you live in.
You get to do something they could only dream of back then - fast forward the wheels of history 100 years past two world wars to the age of science fiction where machines can think and speak, planet earth grows food for 8 billion people, and the moon is littered with human footprints from a generation ago.
Those philosophers would love nothing more than to spend an hour with you listening to your descriptions and thoughts about the world you live in.