tours of the body but also of the body in the fullness of its physicality, including the very “atoms” of its being. Bodies are not objects with inherent boundaries and properties; they are material-discursive phenomena. “Human” bodies are n…At first glance, the outside boundary of a body may seem evident, indeed incontrovertible. A coffee mug ends at its outside surface just as surely as people end at their skins. On the face of it, reliance on visual clues seems to constitute…The fact that there is an enhancement of contours [in the workings of the visual systems of particular animals, including humans] has long been known; in fact it is a remarkable thing that has been commented on by psychologists many times. …
Richard Feynman
physicist · 8 mentions across 4 readings
In this course
The excerpts provided do not clearly establish Feynman's role in this course. While his name appears in the readings, the surrounding passages discuss Many-Worlds theory, material-discursive phenomena, and visual perception without directly attributing arguments or concepts to him. He may be cited as a passing reference within a broader discussion of physics or observation, but based on these fragments alone, it's impossible to specify how he functions in the seminar's framework of AI, cybernetics, and art.
Mentioned in 4 readings
Adequacy/validation and coherence/verification neither entail nor support naive realism. GoAs ultimately construct models of systems. They do not describe, portray, or uncover the intrinsic nature of the systems they analyse. We understand …[^5]: As the reader probably knows, this is done by recording the history of the game: move by move the state of each piece on the board is recorded—in English algebraic notation—by rank and file, the piece being moved and the consequences …
To paraphrase a manifesto of a different time and place: “Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Technology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow …Milton Friedman
Neven Sesardic
Nick Land
Paul Collier
Paul Johnson
Paul Romer
Ray Kurzweil
Richard Feynman
Rose Wilder Lane
Stephen Wolfram
Stewart Brand
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